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Tracking Areas of Fire Weather, Winter Weather, and Severe Weather Thursday

Continuation of gusty winds and low relative humidity will additional periods of critical fire weather to the southern Plains Thursday and Friday. Another Pacific storm will continue gusty winds and heavy snow over the western mountains into Thursday. Severe thunderstorms are possible across parts of the middle Mississippi into lower Ohio Valleys Thursday afternoon into early evening. Read More >

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Last Map Update: Wed, Feb 18, 2026 at 5:54:12 pm PST

As we head into Thursday, another band of light snow will develop in central and northeast Washington around 2-4 AM. This band will fizzle out in northeast Washington in the mid-afternoon around 2-4 PM. Isolated snow showers will develop once again in the east slopes of the Cascades, extreme eastern WA, and north Idaho Thursday afternoon. This snow shower activity will quickly dwindle after sunset.

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