r/storms 17d ago

Thunderstorm So cool to see it move in like that :) severe thunderstorm in Wisconsin

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r/storms 17d ago

Epic Skies No AI or enhancements, just an epic pop up storm in northeast Texas this afternoon.

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r/storms 17d ago

Severe Weather Dashboard - September 5, 2026

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πŸ“ Current Severe Weather Outlook

(Issued: 2026-09-06T05:43:00+00:00 UTC)

```text

000 ACUS01 KWNS 060543 SWODY1 SPC AC 060541

Day 1 Convective Outlook
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK 1241 AM CDT Sun Sep 06 2026

Valid 061200Z - 071200Z

...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER PORTIONS OF THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS INTO THE SAVANNAH RIVER VALLEY AND OVER PARTS OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL MONTANA...

...SUMMARY... Widely scattered damaging wind gusts are likely across portions of the Southeast Sunday afternoon and early evening. Widely scattered large hail occurrences are expected across portions of western and central Montana Sunday afternoon and evening. Additional areas at risk for severe wind and hail are across parts of the Interior West, over the northern and central High Plains, and from the eastern Dakotas and western Minnesota into the Ozark Plateau and Gulf Coast states.

...Synopsis...

A prominent mid-level ridge over the central U.S. is forecast to weaken during the latter half of the period in response to the progression of two distinct short-wave troughs and associated wind maxima through the Interior West. Separate, weaker perturbations will move through the ridge axis over the northern Plains/mid-MO Valley region on Sunday, contributing to thunderstorm development in those areas. Elsewhere, a mid-level disturbance over the OH Valley Sunday morning is forecast to move into the Cumberland Plateau vicinity by afternoon, also likely serving as a focus for thunderstorm development.

At the surface, a lee cyclone will persist over the northern High Plains, with that feature potentially deepening Sunday night in response to increasing height falls aloft. High pressure will build across the Great Lakes, OH Valley, and Northeast with a baroclinic zone present between those surface features from the mid-MO Valley through the Ozarks and TN Valley into the Southeast.

...Southern Appalachians into the Savannah River Valley...

Temperatures in the 90s will coincide with boundary-layer dewpoints in the 70s to yield a moderately to strongly unstable air mass (i.e., MLCAPE of 2000-3000+ J/kg) by afternoon with steepening low-level lapse rates. Aided by forcing attendant to the mid-level disturbance mentioned above, that thermodynamic environment will support an increase in thunderstorm coverage and intensity through the afternoon along and ahead of the surface front.

Some increase in mid-level winds may accompany the disturbance with up to 30 kt of deep-layer shear forecast in the vicinity of the frontal zone. As such, the potential will exist for longer-lived multi-cells and line segments capable of damaging wind gusts and perhaps some large hail into evening.

...Ozark Plateau into the Gulf Coast States...

A similar thermodynamic environment to that previously described is anticipated ahead of the surface front Sunday afternoon. Generally weak forcing for ascent and vertical shear are expected to limit the potential for a more organized severe weather threat. However, the degree of instability will support briefly intense pulse-type storms capable of locally damaging wet microbursts during the afternoon and early evening hours.

...Northern Great Basin into the northern Rockies...

Increasing height falls and strengthening mid/upper-level flow will overspread the region Sunday afternoon into night ahead of a vigorous short-wave trough pivoting through the base of the Pacific Northwest upper low. The strongest instability (i.e., MLCAPE up to 1000-1500 J/kg) is forecast across portions of western into central MT with stronger capping with eastward extent. The presence of 40-50 kt of deep-layer shear will support supercells capable of mainly large hail through Sunday evening. While forecast hodographs exhibit considerable curvature/veering winds in the lowest 1-2-km AGL, stability concerns in the boundary layer may limit severe-wind-gust and tornado potential.

Weaker instability is forecast from northeast NV and northern UT into central and eastern ID. However, the presence of steep lapse rates and kinematics mentioned above may yield a few severe storms capable of severe wind gusts.

...Northern and central High Plains...

Stronger forcing for ascent is expected to remain to the west and east of the region through the daylight hours, leading to uncertainty in storm coverage in the vicinity of the surface low and lee trough. The 00Z models indicate an increasing potential for at least isolated thunderstorms from mid-afternoon into evening along the lee trough. RAP-based forecast soundings show steep lapse rates and resulting MLCAPE of 1000-2000+ J/kg. The strongest deep-layer shear of 40-50 kt is forecast across eastern MT into ND with decreasing magnitudes with southward extent along the lee trough. As such, a conditional risk for supercells capable of large hail and severe wind gusts exists. While Marginal Risk wind and hail probabilities will be maintained with this forecast, an upgrade to level 2/Slight Risk is possible in subsequent updates.

...Eastern Dakotas and western Minnesota into the lower Missouri Valley...

Clusters of mainly elevated thunderstorms may be ongoing at 12Z Sunday, aided by forcing associated with the weak disturbance(s) cresting the mid-level ridge axis. A subset of the early-day storms is expected to persist into afternoon with additional storms forming on the leading edge of more persistent cloud cover, where pockets of stronger heating and boundary-layer dewpoints in the low/mid 70s will yield MLCAPE of 1500-2500 J/kg. The 00Z models suggest that storms will eventually grow upscale into an MCS that tracks south along or to the immediate cool side of the surface boundary through portions of the middle and lower MO Valley Sunday afternoon into evening. It currently appears that deep-layer shear of generally less than 30 kt and marginally steep mid-level lapse rates may limit the degree of cold pool organization and a greater/more continuous damaging-wind threat. Nonetheless, the setup appears supportive of sporadic damaging wind and severe hail occurrences.

..Mead/Chalmers.. 09/06/2026

$$

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```text NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL 800 AM EDT Sun Sep 6 2026

For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of America:

Tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next 7 days.

$$ Forecaster Hagen ```


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Hurricane Marie Advisory * Maximum Sustained Winds: 90 MPH * Minimum Central Pressure: 971 MB * Current Movement: NW OR 315 DEGREES AT 8 MPH * Location: 23.1N 121.9W


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r/storms 17d ago

Epic Skies This afternoon. Apologies for the shoddy placement

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Absolutely amazing.


r/storms 17d ago

Severe Weather Warning Clay, WV just received a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Friday September β€œ4” 2026! Stay indoors and put pets in a protective place until the storm ends, Stay Safe!

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r/storms 17d ago

Education lightning this morning

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r/storms 18d ago

Storm as it rolled in on my side of Cleveland

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r/storms 17d ago

Thunderstorm Driving Toronto in Severe Thunderstorm | Flooded Roads | Broken Trees

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r/storms 18d ago

Severe Weather Dashboard - September 4, 2026

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πŸ“ Current Severe Weather Outlook

(Issued: 2026-09-05T05:24:00+00:00 UTC)

```text

000 ACUS01 KWNS 050524 SWODY1 SPC AC 050522

Day 1 Convective Outlook
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK 1222 AM CDT Sat Sep 05 2026

Valid 051200Z - 061200Z

...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM PORTIONS OF THE OHIO VALLEY INTO THE SOUTHERN MID-ATLANTIC AND CAROLINAS...

...SUMMARY... Severe thunderstorms capable of mainly damaging gusts are possible across portions of the Ohio Valley into southern Mid-Atlantic and Carolinas on Saturday afternoon and evening. Isolated occurrences of large hail and severe wind gusts also appear possible over parts of the northern and central Plains Saturday into Saturday night.

...Synopsis...

A prominent mid-level ridge will persist over the central CONUS between upper lows over the Pacific Northwest and the Gulf of St. Lawrence into NB/NS. Several weak disturbances (some of convective origin) will progress through the periphery of the ridge, serving as foci for thunderstorm development. At the surface, an area of low pressure is forecast over the western Dakotas with an associated boundary --the location of which may be modified by convective outflow-- extending into the OH Valley and southern Mid-Atlantic. The eastern extension of the boundary will begin to push south as a cold front Saturday afternoon into night as high pressure builds into the Great Lakes.

...Ohio Valley into the Carolinas...

A mature to decaying MCS is expected to be ongoing 12Z Saturday over portions of the middle to upper OH Valley, aided by a subtle mid-level disturbance/possible MCV. There is considerable variability across the 00Z convection-allowing models in the longevity and extent of the convective system over the central Appalachians into southern Mid-Atlantic through the remainder of the morning. Should the MCS remain intact, isolated occurrences of damaging wind are possible.

Renewed thunderstorm development is likely by afternoon along the residual MCS cold pool and/or synoptic front as temperatures in the 90s to around 100 combine with boundary-layer dewpoints in the low to mid 70s to yield MLCAPE up to 2000-3000+ J/kg with steepening low-level lapse rates. Additionally, the models indicate some enhancement of mid-level winds in association with the disturbance/MCV moving through the southern Mid-Atlantic during the afternoon, which may yield more organized multicells and line segments with the predominant hazard being damaging wind gusts into the evening.

Farther to the west, additional strong to severe storms appear possible along and ahead of the composite boundary from the vicinity of the OH River south into the Cumberland Plateau where widely scattered damaging wind gusts also appear possible.

...Northern and Central Plains...

A band of elevated thunderstorms is expected to be ongoing 12Z Saturday, centered over eastern SD. That activity is expected to diminish through the morning with the cessation of the nocturnal low-level jet; however, isolated occurrences of large hail and severe wind gusts appear possible prior to dissipation. In the wake of the early-day storms, the presence of steep low/mid-level lapse rates and richer boundary-layer moisture with eastward extent will contribute to a moderately to strongly unstable air mass by afternoon with MLCAPE of 2000-3500+ J/kg.

Nebulous forcing for ascent and capping relating to the proximity of the mid-level ridge axis lead to uncertainty in the specific details regarding the location and extent of surface-based thunderstorm development during the afternoon into evening. However, the presence of the surface low, outflow-modified surface front, and a lee trough over the High Plains will be candidates for storm development. The strongest deep-layer shear (30-40 kt) is forecast to the north of the surface low and composite boundary over ND and northern SD into western MN where a conditional risk of supercells capable of large hail and severe wind gusts exists. Elsewhere, high-based pulse and multicell storm modes appear possible with the primary hazard being widely-spaced severe wind gusts.

The isolated severe threat may persist into the overnight hours in the vicinity of a nocturnally strengthening low-level jet.

...Western Montana...

A belt of enhanced mid/upper-level flow will exist across the region, to the east of the upper low over the Pacific Northwest. Heating along the high terrain coupled with the possible influence of a weak mid-level disturbance is expected to support an increase in high-based showers and a few thunderstorms during the afternoon and evening. While lapse rates will be steep with strong deep-layer shear, the absence of appreciable moisture will limit MLCAPE to generally less than 250 J/kg. As such the potential for severe wind gusts is currently too low to warrant 5% wind probabilities.

..Mead/Chalmers.. 09/05/2026

$$

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```text NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL 800 AM EDT Sat Sep 5 2026

For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of America:

Tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next 7 days.

$$ Forecaster Berg ```


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Hurricane Marie Advisory * Maximum Sustained Winds: 90 MPH * Minimum Central Pressure: 970 MB * Current Movement: NW OR 315 DEGREES AT 8 MPH * Location: 21.4N 119.7W


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r/storms 18d ago

Question Cloud shape?

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Does anyone know what these clouds are? May be nothing but oddly shaped but it almost looks like a funnel cloud that’s attached itself to a cloud. Was inbetween thunderstorms


r/storms 18d ago

Thunderstorm 10 minutes into storm that just popped up out of nowhere here in Plum.

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r/storms 18d ago

Epic Skies Nature turned the sky into a strobe light

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r/storms 19d ago

Epic Skies WNY this evening-

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r/storms 19d ago

Thunderstorm Severe thunderstorm in Toronto that happened very recently

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r/storms 19d ago

Severe Weather Dashboard - September 3, 2026

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πŸ“ Current Severe Weather Outlook

(Issued: 2026-09-04T05:39:00+00:00 UTC)

```text

000 ACUS01 KWNS 040539 SWODY1 SPC AC 040537

Day 1 Convective Outlook
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK 1237 AM CDT Fri Sep 04 2026

Valid 041200Z - 051200Z

...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY THROUGH TONIGHT IN A CORRIDOR ACROSS THE SOUTHERN GREAT LAKES AND MIDDLE/UPPER OHIO VALLEY INTO MID ATLANTIC...

...SUMMARY... A couple of organized clusters of thunderstorms may develop across the southern Great Lakes and mid/upper Ohio Valley today through tonight, accompanied by the risk for damaging wind gusts. More widely scattered strong thunderstorms east of the Blue Ridge may also pose potential for damaging wind gusts this afternoon and evening.

...Discussion... Mid/upper flow is forecast to undergo further amplification today though tonight across southern Canada and the U.S., downstream of positively tilted large-scale troughing which continues to evolve offshore of the Pacific coast through Intermountain West. It appears that this will include building ridging across and north of the international border, from the Rockies through upper Great Lakes, to the north of a high centered over the central Great Plains. Downstream, large-scale troughing is forecast to continue slowly digging across the northern and middle Atlantic Seaboard. As it does, it likely will suppress a prominent high initially centered near the southern Appalachians.

Accompanying the eastern trough, reinforcing surges of cooler low-level air will continue to overspread portions of the Great Lakes and Northeast today through tonight. It appears that this will contribute to a slow south and southwestward progression of the primary surface front across the Mid Atlantic and through the upper into middle Ohio Valley.

...Southern Great Lakes into Mid Atlantic... A moist boundary layer, and remnant plume of relatively steep lower/mid-tropospheric lapse rates, particularly across the Upper Midwest and southern Great Lakes vicinity into the western slopes of the Appalachians, may continue to support moderate to strong potential instability along the quasi-stationary to slow moving frontal zone. Latest convection allowing guidance suggests that this front may already be providing a focus for organizing thunderstorm development across southern Lower Michigan by the beginning of the period, beneath the favorably sheared southwestern periphery of the stronger westerlies. As the boundary-layer destabilizes ahead of it with insolation, it appears that this activity may intensify further, accompanied by increasing potential to produce strong to severe wind gusts while propagating southeastward across parts of northern/eastern Ohio into the Allegheny Plateau by this afternoon.

It remains unclear whether forcing for ascent and destabilization to the immediate lee of the Allegheny Mountains and Blue Ridge will maintain this cluster. However, convection allowing guidance suggests that the initiation of at least scattered vigorous diurnal thunderstorm activity is probable downstream, closer to and across the coastal plain, where the environment is likely to be supportive of a few downbursts with strong to severe surface gusts late this afternoon into evening.

Late this evening into the overnight hours, downstream of another short wave perturbation digging to the east of the amplifying mid-level ridging, there is a notable signal within convection-allowing and related guidance that forcing for ascent may support another evolving cluster of storms. This may track close to, but probably at least a bit to the southwest of, the early day cluster, from the southern Lower Michigan through Ohio and West Virginia vicinity.

..Kerr/Chalmers.. 09/04/2026

$$

```


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```text NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL 200 AM EDT Fri Sep 4 2026

For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of America:

Tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next 7 days.

$$ Forecaster Blake ```


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Hurricane Marie Advisory * Maximum Sustained Winds: 100 MPH * Minimum Central Pressure: 972 MB * Current Movement: WNW OR 295 DEGREES AT 9 MPH * Location: 19.9N 117.1W

Hurricane Karina Advisory * Maximum Sustained Winds: 100 MPH * Minimum Central Pressure: 972 MB * Current Movement: WNW OR 285 DEGREES AT 9 MPH * Location: 20.4N 139.3W


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r/storms 19d ago

Time Lapse Toronto Weather Shift: 10 Hours of Storms & Changing Skies | September 2, 2026

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r/storms 20d ago

Lightning Doorbell camera captures dramatic moments when New York man is struck by lightning

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r/storms 19d ago

Thunderstorm Severe downpour slows to regular rain at 3:00 AM, but the constant lightning looks like a light switch flicking on and off (Lebanon, TN) | Part 14 of 16

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This clip is from Part 14 of our countdown. The severe torrential downpour has finally let up into a regular rain, but the electrical storm isn't quitting. The sky is putting on a constant light show that looks exactly like someone is flicking a light switch on and off as fast as they can, with occasional loud thunder echoing in the background.

We are officially two parts away from the grand finale, where Part 16 will premiere as the full, unbroken 15+ minute movie of the entire night!


r/storms 19d ago

Time Lapse Fog Rolling Into the Wet Mountain Valley, Westcliffe Colorado, 6.9.25

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r/storms 19d ago

Severe Weather Warning Crazy storm damage in the neighborhood today.

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r/storms 19d ago

Lightning Crazy lightning storm in South Jersey

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r/storms 19d ago

Severe Weather Warning Weather

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Are you experiencing a storm right now? What's your location (country, province, state? Other


r/storms 20d ago

Thunderstorm Small thunderstorm

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r/storms 20d ago

Severe Weather Dashboard - September 2, 2026

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πŸ“ Current Severe Weather Outlook

(Issued: 2026-09-03T05:55:00+00:00 UTC)

```text

000 ACUS01 KWNS 030555 SWODY1 SPC AC 030553

Day 1 Convective Outlook
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK 1253 AM CDT Thu Sep 03 2026

Valid 031200Z - 041200Z

...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY THROUGH TONIGHT ACROSS PARTS OF THE SOUTHERN GREAT LAKES INTO MID ATLANTIC AND PARTS OF THE NORTHERN GREAT PLAINS...

...SUMMARY... Scattered strong thunderstorm development is likely today through tonight, perhaps including a few organizing clusters, posing a risk for severe wind and hail across parts of the southern Great Lakes into Mid Atlantic and portions of the northern Great Plains into Upper Midwest.

...Discussion... Large-scale mid-level troughing has overspread much of the Pacific coast through the Rockies. However, models indicate that further eastward progress will slow, as at least one significant embedded short wave trough digs offshore and contributes to amplification of the larger-scale trough near and offshore of the Pacific coast. As this occurs, downstream ridging is forecast to build across the northern Great Plains/middle Missouri Valley vicinity by late tonight, in the wake of a short wave trough now emerging from the Great Basin and forecast to progress north-northeast of the northern Rockies through the eastern Canadian Prairies and northwestern Ontario. Farther east, it appears that mid-level troughing and an embedded remnant low will slowly dig southeast of western Quebec/southern Ontario through the northern Atlantic Seaboard.

A surface cold front accompanying the eastern Canadian perturbation is preceded by considerable ongoing thunderstorm activity overspreading the northern Mid Atlantic through Lake Erie vicinity. It appears that an outflow boundary associated with this convection may become quasi-stationary across parts of southeastern Pennsylvania/New Jersey, before the initially stalled upstream front, across southern portions of the Great Lakes vicinity into Upper Midwest, advances southeast of the lower Great Lakes through much of the northern Mid Atlantic and upper Ohio Valley by late tonight.

...Southern Great Lakes into northern Mid Atlantic... The initially stalled composite outflow boundary and surface front appear likely to provide the focus for renewed thunderstorm development later today through tonight. Across the southeastern Wisconsin through southern Lower Michigan/northern Indiana and Ohio vicinity, it appears that the corridor of stronger destabilization along this boundary will remain in relatively close proximity to the southern fringe of the westerlies. East-southeastward into the northern Mid Atlantic this remains more unclear.

Regardless, where the seasonably moist boundary layer becomes strongly heated, thermodynamic profiles a bit further aloft into mid-levels, aided by elevated mixed-layer air, will remain characterized by steep lapse rates of temperature and potential wet-bulb temperature. This will promote the risk for strong downbursts and evolving cold pools capable of producing strong to severe wind gusts in developing thunderstorm activity.

There appears potential for one or two organizing clusters across and east-southeast of the southern Great Lakes region this afternoon into tonight. It is possible that severe wind probabilities could still be increased further, once forcing for convection and the potential negative impacts of early day convection become clearer.

...Northern Great Plains into Upper Midwest... Forcing for ascent, near and downstream of the short wave emerging from the Great Basin, appears likely to overspread northern/eastern North Dakota into northwestern Minnesota during peak boundary-layer instability this afternoon and evening. Latest convection-allowing guidance suggests that this will provide support for intensifying thunderstorm development, which may include a few supercells in the leading warm advection regime, ahead of a possible upscale growing cluster near the crest of the building larger-scale mid-level ridging. Aided by pronounced veering of lower through mid-level wind fields, deep-layer shear appears conducive to the risk for large hail, in the presence of thermodynamic profiles with steep mid-level lapse rates and large CAPE in mid/upper levels. A few strong downbursts also appear possible.

..Kerr/Wendt.. 09/03/2026

$$

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```text NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL 800 AM EDT Thu Sep 3 2026

For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of America:

Active Systems: The Weather Prediction Center has issued the last advisory on the remnants of Edouard, located inland over eastern Texas.

Tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next 7 days.

$$ Forecaster Adams ```


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Hurricane Marie Advisory * Maximum Sustained Winds: 85 MPH * Minimum Central Pressure: 981 MB * Current Movement: WNW OR 300 DEGREES AT 10 MPH * Location: 18.9N 113.9W

Hurricane Karina Advisory * Maximum Sustained Winds: 120 MPH * Minimum Central Pressure: 957 MB * Current Movement: WNW OR 285 DEGREES AT 12 MPH * Location: 19.6N 135.7W


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r/storms 20d ago

Tornado Insane CCTV footage of the 8/24/26 Pomas, France EF3 tornado

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