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Widespread Showers in the Eastern US; Severe Thunderstorms in the Plains; Heatwave in the Desert Southwest

Widespread showers and thunderstorms across much of the central and eastern U.S. will produce areas of excessive rainfall, especially in the southern Mid-Atlantic states. Scattered severe thunderstorms are expected from Montana into portions of the central/southern Plains this weekend. A heatwave will build in the Desert Southwest, in parts of Arizona, southeastern California, and southern Nevada. Read More >

LMRFC web graphics will be unavailable today (Jan 18, 2018) due to required computer upgrades. These include forecast status maps for mobile devices, observed precipitation, future precipitation, soil moisture, and winter weather web graphics. The exact time of restoration is not known at this time but is expected to be within the next couple of days.

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