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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 >

LMRFC web graphics will be unavailable today (Jan 18, 2018) due to required computer upgrades. These include forecast status maps for mobile devices, observed precipitation, future precipitation, soil moisture, and winter weather web graphics. The exact time of restoration is not known at this time but is expected to be within the next couple of days.

The zoomable, panable map of river forecast locations on our main page will remain available. For alternate graphics of observed precipitation, future precipitation, soil moisture, winter weather web graphics, and others produced by the LMRFC, use the links at the bottom of the respective pages.