Author: Nina Clarke

KANSAS CITY, MO — The severe weather setup taking shape for Thursday, April 23, 2026 is coming into clearer focus, and the latest model guidance is pointing toward a two-corridor threat that puts Oklahoma City and Wichita inside the highest-risk zone while simultaneously expanding the threat northward into eastern Minnesota, west-central Wisconsin, and potentially northwest…

HARRISBURG, PA — The brief summer preview that Pennsylvania has been enjoying is over. A cold front is pushing through the state Sunday, April 19, 2026, dragging temperatures from unseasonably warm back to genuinely cold — and the story does not end there. By Monday night into Tuesday morning, a hard freeze is expected to…

MADISON, WI — The numbers coming out of Wisconsin this week are difficult to process — not because they are hard to read, but because they represent something this state has almost never experienced in recorded history. In the span of a single week, 23 tornadoes touched down across Wisconsin, matching the state’s entire average…

LITTLE ROCK, AR — After one of the slowest severe weather stretches in recent memory across Arkansas and the broader southern United States, the atmosphere is finally showing signs of life — and the data building for this weekend into early next week is turning forecasters’ attention back toward a region that has been largely…

CHICAGO, IL — The numbers are in, and they confirm what residents across Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, and the broader Upper Midwest experienced firsthand on Friday, April 17, 2026: a significant and well-verified severe weather outbreak that delivered hundreds of damaging wind and large hail reports across a corridor stretching from the southern Plains northward through…

NEWLAND, NC — A Wind Advisory is in effect for Avery County, North Carolina until 2:00 PM EDT on Sunday, April 19, 2026, as powerful northwest winds sweep through the Blue Ridge Mountains corridor bringing gusts capable of downing tree limbs, blowing over unsecured objects, and causing isolated power outages across the county. The advisory…

NASHVILLE, TN — A relentless stretch of active spring weather is keeping the central and southern United States wet through the end of April, and the seven-day rainfall forecast through 3:00 PM ET on April 25, 2026 shows significant accumulations building across a massive corridor from Houston and New Orleans northward through Memphis, Nashville, St….

CHICAGO, IL — A significant weather system is already on forecasters’ radar for late next week, and the setup taking shape for Thursday, April 23 through Saturday, April 25, 2026 carries two very different stories depending on where you live. Across the Northern Plains, snow is the headline. Across the central United States from Dallas…

CHICAGO, IL — The national weather pattern is not slowing down. As of Saturday, April 18, 2026, a two-pronged storm sequence is taking shape that will affect both coasts and the central United States over the next ten days — bringing much-needed rainfall to California and Arizona, triggering a return of severe weather across the…

UNITED STATES — A striking new GFS severe weather outlook is raising concerns across the central United States, showing a powerful supercell signal developing from Texas through Oklahoma, Kansas, and into Missouri, with the threat potentially extending toward the Midwest including areas near Chicago. The setup suggests a high-end severe weather environment capable of producing…