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Unprecedented Midwest Snow, Cold Dives All The Way To Texas!

Unprecedented Midwest Snow, Cold Dives All The Way To Texas!

It’s snowing hard across eastern Nebraska and western Iowa with 5+ inches now on the ground at the same time Chicago was enjoying it’s warmest start to a May in 21 years. The high topped 84 degrees this afternoon at O’Hare. This is a situation you are likely to never see again in your lifetime […]

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From Upper 90s To Near Blizzard Conditions In 36 Hours, Many Snow & Cold Records To Fall!

From Upper 90s To Near Blizzard Conditions In 36 Hours, Many Snow & Cold Records To Fall!

The month of April is ending just as wild as it began with an unseasonably rainy/snowy night over the central Rockies after a toasty Monday with highs reaching 80 in Denver. Tonight will see the cold front swing through with rain changing over to wet snow from Montana down through Wyoming into Colorado. Cheyenne may see a good 6-8 inches […]

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Las Vegas Eyes Hottest April Day While Kansas City & Des Moines Eye Coldest May Days

Las Vegas Eyes Hottest April Day While Kansas City & Des Moines Eye Coldest May Days

Week after week has seen some wild and extreme weather across the United States and this week is no different despite the fact that April is drawing to a close and May begins. It’s another week of unusual heat, unusual cold, heavy, record-breaking snow and another week void of any noteworthy severe weather.It’s said that […]

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Historic Late Season Missouri, Iowa Snow Event Is Likely To Follow Texas To Kansas 90s (INCLUDES VIDEO)

Historic Late Season Missouri, Iowa Snow Event Is Likely To Follow Texas To Kansas 90s (INCLUDES VIDEO)

It’s warming up nicely across much of the Lower 48 with 80s reaching all the way to North Dakota yesterday. It’s looking like Phoenix will see their first 100 today while Las Vegas gets there Monday. Following yesterday’s high of 108, Death Valley may climb into the low 110s either today or tomorrow. If you live in Salt […]

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Warm Today, Warmer Next Week But Cold & Snow Follows From Denver To Chicago

Warm Today, Warmer Next Week But Cold & Snow Follows From Denver To Chicago

Today is most certainly the warmest day of the year so far across the Northern Plains and boy what a turnaround from just a few days ago when it hit 10 degrees all the way to the Texas Panhandle and highs were stuck at or below 32 for many places in Kansas. Today, temperatures are already soaring into […]

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Absent Severe Weather Season This Year, Too Much Cold Air? Similar To 2004, 2005

Absent Severe Weather Season This Year, Too Much Cold Air? Similar To 2004, 2005

This April will be one many of us remember for a very long time, especially those living in the Northern Plains where spring has yet to arrive, although it will over the next 24 hours! This April has set astonishing all-time records for snowiest month in cities well familiar with snow, Duluth and Rapid City with over […]

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Temps 35-40° Below Normal Over Kansas

Temps 35-40° Below Normal Over Kansas

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any colder and more outrageous this April, we’ll it did over the central Plains yesterday as parts of Kansas didn’t even manage to reach freezing, that’s a solid 40° below normal and for April 23rd, that to me is comparable to the ‘off the scale’ records being set for heat last […]

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Cold Records Keep Tumbling, Lake Yellostone, WY Hits -11°F, Big Warm-Up On The Way Though!

Cold Records Keep Tumbling, Lake Yellostone, WY Hits -11°F, Big Warm-Up On The Way Though!

The continuation of cold records being set is quite amazing and when you see lows down to single digits in South Dakota (8° at Huron, latest single digit reading on record!), 12° in Rapid City on April 23, it’s amazing so late in the season. Lows dove back into the 20s all the way into the […]

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‘Year Without A Spring’ Is About To End For Northern Plains, But Permanently?

‘Year Without A Spring’ Is About To End For Northern Plains, But Permanently?

It’s been an incredibly cold and snowy spring across the Rockies, Central and Northern Plains and we’ve seen yet another major snow dump upwards of 18 inches on the Black Hills of South Dakota Sunday into Monday while earlier today, the Braves vs Rockies game was cancelled in Denver due to snow. More cold comes down […]

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More U.S Snow & Cold This Week

More U.S Snow & Cold This Week

A major late April cold blast dove all the way to the Gulf Coast this weekend with 30s even reaching Florida this morning. While the South shivered, another wave of unseasonable cold is dropping out of Canada tonight and on the leading edge of this strong cold front, heavy snow shall break out from Montana through Wyoming, Colorado […]

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