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Severe weather can occur under a variety of situations, but three characteristics are generally needed: a temperature or moisture boundary, moisture, and (in the event of severe, precipitation-based events) instability in the atmosphere.
Intense thunderstorms packing wind gusts over 100 mph blasted across the Midwest Monday afternoon into Monday night, snapping trees and damaging buildings during an extreme weather event known as ...
Snow was lighter in the Chicago metropolitan area, with a peak of around 3.5 in (8.9 cm); [15] the snowfall resulted in a ground stop at Chicago O'Hare International Airport. [16] Slushy roads led to two fatalities in the Midwest – one in Wisconsin and one in Michigan. [17]
The following is a list of major snow and ice events in the United States that have caused noteworthy damage and destruction in their wake. The categories presented below are not used to measure the strength of a storm, but are rather indicators of how severely the snowfall affected the population in the storm's path.
Flooding downpours will be a concern both within the severe weather risk areas as well as for locations farther north that were doused with 1-2 inches of rain last week.
The threat of severe weather expands to millions in the East on Memorial Day after intense and deadly storms ravaged a large area of the central United States over the weekend.
SPC storm reports for November 17, showing the extent of the tornado outbreak and subsequent wind event. With the overall upper-level system expected to track eastward across the United States High Plains on November 17, the SPC issued a slight risk for severe thunderstorm activity for an area surrounding the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, valid for the early morning hours ...
The global weather phenomenon El Niño, in which surface waters are abnormally warm in the eastern tropical Pacific, was a major player in many of the top weather events in 2023.