- Severe Storms Target the Central U.S.: National CONUS Weather Forecast – 8/18/26by Matt ShiffmanHey everyone! Let’s get into the national outlook for this week! Today’s Overall Setup We have a pretty active setup across much of the country today. Showers and thunderstorms will stretch from the northern Rockies through the Midwest and into the Northeast. Some of the stronger storms could turn severe from Nebraska into Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri, with damaging…
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- An Analysis of Dust Storms and Black Sundayby Morgan VogtBackground During the 1930s, the United States experienced one of the most devastating environmental disasters, now known as the Dust Bowl. The Dust Bowl consisted of severe dust storms, which were brought about by extreme droughts in the Southern and Central Great Plains. After lasting around a decade, the Dust Bowl created some of the most notable storms in…
- Heat, Rain, Heat, Rain, Repeat – Week Ahead Forecast for South MS/LA/AL 8/17/26by Noah GowerAfter coming out of my truck to go back to work, the amount of heat felt like a barely penetrable wall of air I was walking through to make it to the back door of the engineering building. Top that off with a lot of sun, it made for unbearable heat pretty early in the day. It’s August, and…
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- Humidity, Heat, Afternoon Thunderstorms, The Endless Loop: Southern MS/AL/LA Weather forecast – 8/16/2026by Martin FranciscusMother Nature is throwing August at us in full force. A long duration ridging pattern remains entrenched over our region locking us into an endless cycle of extreme heat and humidity with little relief from afternoon pulse storms. Surely this ridge will break down but the question is when. Heat like this is significantly more dangerous when it persists…
- Quiet Here, Wild in Hawaii- 8/16/26 Tropical Forecastby Kayden PageEarlier this week, the National Hurricane Center was tracking three separate tropical disturbances in the Atlantic, with one of them briefly carrying a high (around 70–80%) chance of becoming a tropical cyclone. As of today, the National Hurricane Center is not monitoring any tropical disturbances, and no tropical cyclone formation is expected across the Atlantic, Caribbean Sea, or Gulf…
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