Areas of Severe Thunderstorms and Excessive Rainfall through This Weekend

A multi-day thunderstorm and heavy rain event will impact the south-central U.S. this Memorial Day weekend. Severe thunderstorms may produce large hail, severe gusts, and a possible tornado or two across portions of the central and southern Plains through Monday. The threat for heavy to excessive rainfall and possible flash flooding will return to the south-central U.S., especially in the Ozarks. Read More >

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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Areas of Severe Thunderstorms and Excessive Rainfall through This Weekend

Mesolows over the Great Lakes