Dangerous Heat over the South-Central and Southwest U.S. Through Next Week

Dangerous heat persists across the Desert Southwest through this weekend and across the Southern Plains and Lower Mississippi Valley through at least the middle of next week. Numerous daily record high temperatures are expected through at least Tuesday for much of Texas and Oklahoma as well as portions of Louisiana, New Mexico, and Arizona. Read More >

The lightning strike graphics for Eastern Idaho are currently unavailable. We apologize for the inconvenience.

These graphics are cumulative lightning strike maps for eastern Idaho. Mouse-over each day to view the 24-Hour Cumulative Lightning Strike Map.

Updated daily at midnight, they are useful for determining where lightning has occurred over the previous 24 hour period, going back 6 days. This information could be helpful for determining where potential lightning-related fire starts may have occurred during recent thunderstorm activity. An individual strike shows up as a single yellow dot, multiple dots close together indicate an active thunderstorm moved through a particular area.