Sinlaku Continues to Impact the Marianas; Severe Weather from the Central US to the Northeast; Late-Season Snow in the Northwest

Sinlaku continues to bring destructive winds, widespread heavy rain/flooding, and storm surge to the Marianas. Showers and severe thunderstorms are expected from the Northeast to the Mid-Mississippi Valley and to the Central/Southern Plains through Thursday. A front will produce late-season snowfall over the Cascades and Northern Rockies and coastal rain over the Northwest Coast through Thursday. Read More >

The animated movie on the weather.gov/medford/wildfire web page is based on the HRRR. Typically those movies only go out 18 hours. If you want to view imagery that goes out 48 hours, this tuturial will help you get there. The HRRR smoke model has really improved over the past several years and can provide a good idea on where the greatest/least concentration of smoke will be, out to 48 hours. Please understand when viewing this imagery that no model is perfect, and it's usually best to use to view trends where smoke is getting worse or better. Take a look at the AQI in your area, and then you can use the model to see if it looks like your area will improve or worsen through the day/night.

Here's the link to the smoke model page: https://rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/hrrr/HRRRsmoke/

Note that this imagery only shows county boundaries. Below is an image with some approximate city locations as a reference in case you're not familiar with all county boundaries.