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Heat Wave Expands to the East Coast; Flash Flooding Likely in the Central Plains into the Midwest; Severe Thunderstorms in the Northeast

Dangerous, prolonged heat is ongoing in the Mid-South to Mid-Mississippi Valley and heat expands into the Northeast for a brief period today. Widely scattered instances of flash flooding due to heavy rains are forecast from northeast Kansas to much of Indiana. Scattered strong to severe thunderstorms are possible across parts of New England, northern Mid-Atlantic, and North Dakota. Read More >

Heavy snow fell across far Northern Indiana and southwestern lower Michigan starting New Years Eve night and continuing through early Tuesday. Rapidly intensifying low pressure tracked out of the southern plains into parts of Indiana and Ohio. The heaviest snowfall from the system occurred along and borthwest of a Logansport to Columbia City to Montpelier OH line with some locations reporting upwards of 15 to 20 inches before the system moved away.

While the widespread snow departed with the area of low pressure, bands of lake effect snow setup across much of the area with several more focused and intense bands evolving and moving across northern parts of the area. This allowed for isolated increases in snowfall totals downwind of the lake with some locations seeing 3 day storm totals over over 2 feet of snow. 
 

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The colors in this image show radar estimated event total water equivalent for rain and snow. Selected snowfall reports from weather spotters, CoCoRAHS observers, WSBT, and amateur radio reports (black text) are shown in inches.    

Thanks to all the weather observers, media outlets, CoCoRAHS and Amateur Radio Networks for the excellent reports.