Extreme Heat Across the Southern U.S.; Severe Thunderstorms and Heavy Rain in the Northern Plains and Upper Midwest

Dangerous heat will remain across portions of the southern U.S. through the weekend. A heat wave over the Southwest will intensify this week, peaking and expanding into the Intermountain West and northern High Plains this weekend. Severe thunderstorms will produce damaging winds and heavy rainfall over portions of the northern/central Plains into the mid/upper-Mississippi Valleys today. 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.

Extreme Heat Across the Southern U.S.; Severe Thunderstorms and Heavy Rain in the Northern Plains and Upper Midwest

KXMR Early AM Synoptic RAOB