Dangerous Heat in the Southwest; Severe Thunderstorms and Heavy Rain in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic

Dangerous heat will persist across the Southwest U.S. through Friday with daytime highs of 110-115°F. Heat across the southern Plains will briefly ease to near-normal by late week. Strong to severe thunderstorms may produce damaging wind, hail, a tornado or two, heavy rain and flash flooding across parts of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. Heavy rainfall threat continues across the Gulf Coast. Read More >

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Last Map Update: Thu, Aug 27, 2026 at 2:10:44 pm CDT

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While low rain and storm chances continue this afternoon into evening, most locations will remain dry. If thunderstorms form, a few will be capable of strong wind gusts.

Well above normal temperatures continue through the next 7-days.

Rain/Storm chances today across the west. Dry & hot starting this weekend into next week. Dangerous heat returns this weekend.

Our temperatures remain above normal and forecasted to stay that way with many areas seeing triple digit highs this weekend and with the jetstream staying in the northern half of the country with upper ridging over the southern half that trend is likely to remain through the 1st week of September. As far as the 2nd week of September, the CPC has our area outlook for a likely 60-70% probability staying above normal as well. Normal high temperatures for the 2nd week of September across our area range in the mid 80s to 90 degrees.

Local Weather History For August 27th...

Isolated thunderstorms with frequent lightning, but little or no
rain, are fairly common throughout Oklahoma and western north Texas
during the summer months. Storms of this type often start grass
fires. This happened on August 27, 1980, across much of Clay, Jack,
and Throckmorton Counties of northern Texas. The fires blackened
large amounts of open grassland, but did little property damage.

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