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Areas of Dangerous Heat and Heavy Rainfall Today

Hot temperatures and high humidity are forecast to continue across the mid-Mississippi Valley today. Heat Advisories remain in effect. Heavy to excessive rainfall today could bring areas of flooding to parts of the northern High Plains and Midwest into the Ohio Valley. Flood Watches remain in effect. Read More >

January 19-20, 2019
Ice and Snow Winter Storm


A potent low pressure system tracked east from the Rocky Mountains into the Tennessee Valley before pivoting into the Tri-State area early on Jan 19. The upper level jet dynamics of the atmosphere coincident with a very strong thermal gradient allowed for a sustained winter storm that produced a diverse range of weather from rain, freezing rain, sleet, snow, and blowing snow across the Ohio Valley.