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Tracking Severe Thunderstorms and Excessive Rainfall in the Southern U.S.; Winter Storm to Impact the Northern U.S.

A storm system will shift from eastern Texas into the lower Mississippi Valley Monday with additional threats of severe thunderstorms and heavy to excessive rainfall which may bring flooding. A Flood Watch remains in effect. In the northern U.S., a storm will bring heavy snow and gusty winds over parts of the northern Rockies, northern Plains, and Upper Midwest Monday into Wednesday. Read More >

Timeline of weather outlook through the holiday weekend. Blustery winds into Thanksgiving with much colder temps and overnight single digit winds chills into Friday. Snow potential continues for the weekend with likely impacts from wherever the snow sets up.
Blustery winds continue tonight into Thanksgiving morning. Also will see much cold temps with winds chills in the teens to single digit.
There is a persisting signal for accumulating snow for southern WI this weekend, thus confidence is growing for travel and snow impacts. This looks to be a long-duration snow beginning late Friday night and continuing into Sunday. Greatest impacts are looking to be during the day Saturday. Details on snow amounts and locations WILL CHANGE leading into the event as it is too early to tell any specifics. Any minor shifts in the system's track, temps, snow rates, and banding setup will all play a role in snow amounts and impact locations. We encourage you to stay up to date with the latest forecast and emails over the next few days as the forecast becomes more refined.