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Areas of Severe Thunderstorms, Excessive Rainfall, and Extreme Heat Tuesday

In the Northern Plains into the Upper Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic, heavy to excessive rain may bring flash and urban flooding Tuesday. Severe thunderstorms producing damaging winds are most likely over parts of the Dakotas into Minnesota Tuesday afternoon into the overnight, with other isolated storms producing hail or wind over the northern High Plains. Extreme heat returns to the southwest U.S. Read More >

Overall quiet conditions are expected to continue on into the day on Tuesday, with widespread highs in the lower-mid 90s and generally southerly winds. High temperatures in the 90s continues on into Wednesday, and while much of the daytime period looks to be dry, thunderstorm chances will increase late in the day and continue on into the evening-overnight hours. Some of these storms could be strong-severe. Scattered thunderstorm chances look to continue through the end of the week.