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Areas of Excessive Rainfall from Southwest U.S. Monsoons; Monitoring Tropical Cyclone Formation Which Could Impact the Southeast U.S.

In Arizona and New Mexico, heavy to excessive rainfall from monsoon thunderstorms may bring isolated flash and urban flooding today into Sunday. Tropical wave (AL94) is likely to become a depression by late Friday or over this weekend in the vicinity of the Bahamas. Significant uncertainty remains in the track and intensity, but chances for impacts to the southeast U.S. coast are increasing. Read More >

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Welcome to the National Weather Service’s Hazards Simplification Initiative!

The Hazard Simplification (Haz Simp) initiative is leveraging user engagement research to explore and implement advancements in our national Watch, Warning, and Advisory alerting system. This iterative and flexible approach allows the National Weather Service (NWS) to continually engage with its partners and stakeholders to ensure the alert products we issue reflect current and future needs.

From consolidating the number of individual alerts to creating new visuals to utilizing plain language, the NWS is always looking for new and more effective ways to communicate weather impacts to partners and the public!