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Hurricane Erin Moving Away from the North Carolina Coast, Dangerous Surf & Rip Currents Continue; Hazardous Heat out West

Tropical storm conditions, storm surge flooding and coastal flooding continue today across the Outer Banks and portions of the Mid-Atlantic coast. Life-threatening rip currents and high surf continue to impact much of the East Coast through the end of the week. Hazardous, record heat will continue across the Western U.S. through the weekend. Read More >

Experimental Thunderstorm and Warning Probability Projection


Current areas of lightning activity. If there is no current lightning activity, the 1 and 2 hour thunderstorm projection images below will be zero.
Current Storm Motion (mph)
Projection of current lightning activity out 1 hour. Probabilities (%) show the chance for a location to be affected by current thunderstorms.
Projection of current lightning activity out 2 hours. Probabilities (%) show the chance for a location to be affected by current thunderstorms.


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