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Dangerous Heat Continues; Monitoring Excessive Rainfall and Flash Flooding

The heat continues along and east of the Mississippi River. The most significant cumulative heat impacts are expected across the Mid-Atlantic through today and eastern Ohio Valley through Friday. Severe weather and heavy rainfall potential from the Southwest, Plains, upper Midwest, Great Lakes, mid-Atlantic and Northeast the next couple of days. A disturbance near the Marianas may bring flooding. Read More >

Overview

A late season snow storm brought heavy wet snow to portions of southeast Iowa, extreme northeast Missouri and 
northwest Illinois April 16 and 17. With warm ground temperatures, there were not many impacts to travel other than 
reduced visibility at times and minor slushy accumulations on roads. The higher amounts of 5 to 8 inches fell from the 
Fairfield and Keosauqua areas in southeastern Iowa northeast toward Aledo and Kewanee in Illinois.
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