WEATHER

CHICAGO, IL — Three months into 2026 and the numbers are already telling a story that anyone living between the Mississippi River and the East Coast can feel in their bones: this year has been relentlessly active for severe weather, and the data now confirms it in black and white. The Midwest and eastern United…

INDIANAPOLIS, IN — The severe weather is done — but the danger is not over. As the last of Tuesday evening’s severe thunderstorms push out of Ohio, a new and potentially more insidious threat is already organizing across Illinois and Indiana: a converging mass of heavy rain and general thunderstorms tracking eastward through the overnight…

DES MOINES, IA — It is the scenario that experienced Midwest storm chasers and forecasters dread most — a setup that had all the ingredients for a significant severe weather day, now being quietly undermined before most people have even had their morning coffee. Early morning thunderstorm activity on Thursday is carving directly into the…

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK — The national severe weather outlook just got more serious. The Storm Prediction Center has officially upgraded western Oklahoma, southern Kansas, and northwest Texas to an Enhanced Risk — Level 3 on the five-tier national scale — with the primary driver being an extreme hail threat that forecasters are describing as gorilla…

KANSAS CITY, MO — The central United States is entering one of the most active severe weather stretches of the young spring season, with back-to-back high-probability storm corridors locked into the eight-day outlook and model data showing the kind of agreement that forecasters pay close attention to — two independent atmospheric models both flagging the…

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK — A significant severe weather day is locked in for Wednesday, April 1 across the southern and central Plains, as a powerful storm system pushes an Enhanced Risk — the third-highest category on the national severe weather scale — directly over portions of Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas, threatening millions of residents with…

DALLAS, TX — After years of punishing heat and drought cycles, the atmospheric signals now lining up for Texas and the Southern Plains are painting a picture that forecasters rarely get to describe for this region: a summer that may actually bring meaningful, sustained rainfall and temperatures that stay below the brutal extremes residents have…

FAIRBANKS, AK — History was made in Fairbanks, Alaska — and it was made in the most brutal way possible. The numbers are now official, and the 2025-26 winter season has been confirmed as the all-time coldest December through March on record for one of America’s most extreme cold-weather cities, surpassing every season in a…

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK — A wall of violent weather is bearing down on Oklahoma Wednesday afternoon, and forecasters are calling it the most significant severe weather threat the state has seen since early March — a system loaded with every ingredient needed to produce tornadoes, baseball-sized hail, and hurricane-force wind gusts across millions of people…

SPRINGFIELD, IL — The skies over central Illinois and eastern Missouri are about to get very dangerous — and the atmospheric data building ahead of Thursday’s storm system leaves little room for reassurance. A severe weather outbreak is taking shape across the central United States, with conditions aligned to support rotating thunderstorms capable of producing…