Heat Persists in the South Central U.S. and Southwest; Heavy rains in the Desert Southwest and Central Plains

Sweltering heat remains across the South-Central Plains, Lower/Middle Mississippi Valley, and the Southwest this week with limited nighttime relief. Thunderstorms will bring heavy rainfall leading to localized flash flooding in portions of the Desert Southwest and central Plains. Isolated strong to severe thunderstorms are possible across portions of the central Plains into the Northeast. Read More >

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Routine early AM synoptic KXMR rawinsonde

Routine early AM synoptic Skew-T Log P diagram for KXMR (Cape Canaveral, Florida) weather balloon. Mission support rawinsondes released from KXMR may be found with the link or drop down menu.

Y-axis is pressure in millibars. Wind barbs are located to the right hand side of the diagram with speed in knots. Solid red line is temperature in Celcius. Dashed green line is dew point in Celcius.

Heat Persists in the South Central U.S. and Southwest; Heavy rains in the Desert Southwest and Central Plains

KXMR Early AM Synoptic RAOB