A summer like air mass has settled into the upper Midwest pushing high temperatures 15-25 degrees above average for Monday. This unseasonably warm air mass is also going to bring the chance for severe weather by the late afternoon.
The Pacific Northwest has been blasted with a series of storms producing strong damaging winds and flooding rains. One last storm system will move through the region Saturday afternoon through Sunday.
Category 3 Hurricane Nicole lingers next to Bermuda, bringing hurricane force winds to the island. With maximum wind gusts of 125 mph (200 km/h) being produced by Nicole, major damages to the island are expected.
A winter-like set of storm systems are barreling across the Pacific on a collision course with the Pacific Northwest. This carousel of storms will bring torrential rain to a wide swath from California to British Columbia.
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