Severe Thunderstorms and Heavy Rain in the Central U.S.

A broad threat of scattered severe thunderstorms and heavy showers will exist across the central and southern High Plains into Sunday, including areas well off to the east into the Mid-South and Tennessee Valley. Smoke from Canadian wildfires will continue to bring unhealthy air quality conditions to portions of the Great Lakes and the central Plains. Read More >

December 2022 was certainly historic in several ways. For Duluth alone, several daily snowfall records were broken, and with an inch of snow that fell on December 31, the monthly snowfall record was broken as well. Elsewhere, below normal temperatures and above average precipitation and snowfall was the overall trend, which is consistent with patterns we normally see during a La Niña pattern. With all the added moisture, Lake Superior is sitting at about a foot above average and drought conditions have improved a bit more across the region.

For the rest of January, the CPC is forecasting above normal temperatures and precipitation. Equal chances to perhaps below normal temperatures are favored in the 3-month outlook with above normal precipitation.