Storm Impacting the Northwest U.S.; Fire Weather Conditions in Southern California; Severe Weather in the South

A Pacific storm is bringing areas of low elevation rain, moderate to heavy mountain snow, and high winds to the Northwest. Strong Santa Ana winds and very dry conditions are producing elevated to critical fire weather conditions in southern California. Isolated strong to severe thunderstorms are possible through early Wednesday morning across parts of northeast Texas into western Tennessee. Read More >

Overview

A spring low pressure system brought widespread rainfall to the region, which is already off to record or near record precipitation so far this year. Of equal significance with this event was the switch over to snow for some locations toward the end of the event. This provided the somewhat rare glimpse of May snowflakes and even accumulating snow to portions of the Buffalo Ridge area and other higher elevation locations.