Slight Risk for Excessive Rainfall and Severe Thunderstorms Thursday

Additional rounds of thunderstorms are expected Thursday and Thursday night across Oklahoma and north Texas, with risks for both large hail and flash flooding. Strong winds may accompany any storms from east Texas northeast through the lower Great Lakes. Read More >

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A very interesting visual satellite picture from the afternoon of February 20th, it shows two mesolows; one moving across southern Lake Michigan and another over southern Lake Huron. These smaller scale features can have an appearance of tropical systems such as Hurricanes or Tropical Storms but that is where the similarities end. They are created by a fairly rare temperature and wind pattern across the Great Lakes, but when they do form during the winter months they can produce a period of very heavy snow.

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Slight Risk for Excessive Rainfall and Severe Thunderstorms Thursday

Mesolows over the Great Lakes