Relatively mild water temperatures between 40°F and 50°F in the Great Lakes will combine with a cold, arctic air mass to crank up the lake effect snow machine starting Wednesday night. And the machine will stay on through Friday afternoon, allowing for some places near the lakes to pick up not inches of snow, but multiple feet.
Fortunes are changing in the South, where an an extremely dry autumn left several states in a severe drought. The lack of rain has devastated farms and helped fuel hundreds of wildfires. But the rains have started to return in the past week, and a couple systems are bringing more soaking rains to much of the southern U.S. early this week.
(Updated Sunday morning, 12/4/2016)
While beneficial rain is falling for parts of the drought stricken southeast, it’s too much of a good thing for portions of southeast Texas and Louisiana. It’s all being driven by a slow moving disturbance near the U.S.-Mexico border, drawing deep Gulf moisture northward that will bring more rain Sunday and Monday.
(Updated 9 a.m. Monday, November 28)
A strong, large November storm is developing across the central United States. On the northern flank, heavy snow is falling in the Dakotas, while severe storms are anticipated later Monday on the storm’s southern flank in places such as Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee.
