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Severe Thunderstorms Possible in the South Central U.S.; Wildfire Smoke Impacts in the North Central U.S.; Severe Space Weather

Scattered severe thunderstorms may bring large hail and isolated damaging winds this weekend over parts of the south central U.S. Smoke from Canadian wildfires will bring air quality issues to parts of the north central U.S. this weekend. Moderate to Severe geomagnetic storm conditions will remain possible into early Monday following a strong coronal mass ejection from the sun. 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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