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Critical to Extremely Critical Fire Weather Conditions in Southern California; Heavy Lake Effect Snow Downwind of Lakes Erie and Ontario

Critical to extremely critical fire weather conditions are forecast for coastal southern California through Wednesday due to moderate to locally strong Santa Ana winds. Particularly Dangerous Situation Red Flag Warnings have been issued. Across the Great Lakes, heavy lake effect snow is expected downwind of Lakes Erie and Ontario from this afternoon into late Wednesday night. Read More >

This is just one of our many short range forecasts in depicting how the thunderstorms "may" develop this afternoon through tonight. The last couple model runs have been fairly consistent showing the stronger storms may potentially scoot from the Turtle Mountains into northeast North Dakota around midnight and beyond. We'll see!