Critical Fire Weather Persists in the Southern Plains; Severe Weather and Heavy Rain Expected Over the Weekend

High winds and very dry conditions will continue to produce elevated to critical fire weather conditions over portions of New Mexico and far western Texas through Saturday. Heavy snow will continue in the Central Rockies Heavy rain, flooding, and severe thunderstorm risks increase from the Southern Plains into the Lower Missouri Valley this weekend. 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.