Critical Fire Weather in the Plains; Severe Thunderstorms in the Upper Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes

Anomalously warm, dry and breezy conditions will bring elevated to critical fire weather conditions across portions of the Intermountain West into the central and southern Plains today. Strong to severe thunderstorms are possible across portions of the upper Mississippi River Valley to the Great Lakes tonight through the day Tuesday. Damaging gusts, hail, and heavy rainfall are likely. Read More >

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Routine early AM synoptic KXMR rawinsonde

Routine early AM synoptic Skew-T Log P diagram for KXMR (Cape Canaveral, Florida) weather balloon. Mission support rawinsondes released from KXMR may be found with the link or drop down menu.

Y-axis is pressure in millibars. Wind barbs are located to the right hand side of the diagram with speed in knots. Solid red line is temperature in Celcius. Dashed green line is dew point in Celcius.

Critical Fire Weather in the Plains; Severe Thunderstorms in the Upper Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes

KXMR Early AM Synoptic RAOB