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Areas of Heavy Rainfall and Critical Fire Weather on Wednesday

Heavy to excessive rainfall may bring flooding to parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Florida, North Carolina, and Virginia Wednesday. Recently burned areas will be particularly vulnerable to flash flooding. Gusty winds and low humidity will bring critical fire weather to parts of the Northwest U.S. and central Alaska on Wednesday where Red Flag Warnings are in effect. Read More >

The lightning images below are updated daily around 8:30–9:30 AM and contain 24-h accumulations of lightning ending at 7 am CDT (6 am CST) each day. These images show NLDN cloud-to-ground flashes only and represents cloud-to-ground lightning flashes, and is based on a surface detection network. Larger printable versions are at the bottom of the map segment.

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