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Critical Fire Weather in the Southern High Plains; Heavy Snow in the Great Lakes and Northeast U.S.

Gusty winds and low relative humidity will bring elevated to critical fire weather conditions to the southern High Plains through the weekend. A winter storm will track across the Great Lakes and Northeast U.S. into Saturday with areas of wintry mix and heavy snow from northern New York through southern Maine. Read More >

Fig. 18. Radar base reflectivity from 2206 to 2340 UTC showing convection along an east- to-west oriented segment of Claudette’s outer rainband north of the storm’s center. At least two storms seen in the loop were relatively long lived and displayed evidence of storm scale organization.