Air Quality Concerns; Fire Weather; Extreme Heat; Flash Flooding

Wildfire smoke continues to result in poor air quality from the Upper Midwest into the Northeast. Dangerous heat and fire weather concerns for portions of the Four Corners region into the central Great Basin. Heavy rainfall and flash flooding possible for the Southeast through Monday. For Hawaii, gusty trade winds a drier weather could result in any fires that start to spread rapidly. Read More >

Be sure to stop by our April 26, 2005 rainbow event webpage!

Double rainbow viewed from western Hardin County, April 26. Webster Cundiff

Four seperate pictures crudely stitched together of a double rainbow viewed from the NWS Louisville office on April 26.

Single image of the April 26 rainbow from NWS Louisville.

Upper tangent arc. Tangent arcs are caused by the reflection of sunlight by ice crystals in the upper levels of the atmosphere. Amy Turner, Louisville

A sundog mixed with cirrus clouds. Mike Callahan, Jeffersonville, Indiana.

Rainbow that was cast over the Morman Hills looking east after the storm of April 22 passed over. The sun came out and created the rainbow with the dark storm clouds in the distance. Tony Bright