Dangerous Cold Weather for Most of the Country; Rare Winter Storm for the South; Fire Weather Concerns for Southern California

Arctic air will filter south and east through early this week. As this cold air moves across the South, a rare winter storm is forecast to develop from Texas, Gulf Coast States into the Southeast through early this week. Several new daily record low temperatures are expected, including new record-low maximum temperatures. For Southern California, fire weather concerns increase this week. Read More >

A very interesting visual satellite picture from the afternoon of February 20th, it shows two mesolows; one moving across southern Lake Michigan and another over southern Lake Huron. These smaller scale features can have an appearance of tropical systems such as Hurricanes or Tropical Storms but that is where the similarities end. They are created by a fairly rare temperature and wind pattern across the Great Lakes, but when they do form during the winter months they can produce a period of very heavy snow.

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Dangerous Cold Weather for Most of the Country; Rare Winter Storm for the South; Fire Weather Concerns for Southern California

Mesolows over the Great Lakes