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The Carolina Panthers will play the Denver Broncos this Sunday in the biggest football game of the year, Super Bowl 50. The NFL championship game will take place in the San Francisco 49ers’ brand new Levi’s Stadium. The outdoor stadium leaves the teams susceptible to mother nature, who has a history of making weather conditions difficult on the players. With El Niño causing above average rainfall in California this winter, could the game end up being a rainy mess? MORECAST has a look at how the weather is shaping up for Sunday’s big game.

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This morning, tens of thousands of otherwise ordinary Americans flocked to a little town in western Pennsylvania, anxious to see what a groundhog named Phil had to say about the prospects for wintry weather in the next several weeks.  While it seems odd to depend on a furry ten-pound mammal to forecast the end of winter, it’s far from the only example of humans taking our weather forecasting cues from the animal kingdom.

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A band of very heavy snowfall, including thundersnow with rates up to 2 inches per hour, is combining with northeasterly winds gusting up to 50 mph to produce life-threatening blizzard conditions from Nebraska into northern and western Iowa today. Extreme caution is advised in these areas through the rest of the day and into tonight.  Major interstates such as I-70 and I-80 have been or will be closed.

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Major tornado damage has been reported over parts of eastern Mississippi and western Alabama near Collinsville, Aliceville, and Scooba in the past hour, with the storms now near the state line, moving northeast.  Additional tornado-capable storms are moving just east of Memphis, Tennessee.  The severe threat will persist through this evening from Mississippi and central Alabama into western Tennessee and Kentucky.  Nashville, Tennessee and Birmingham, Alabama are major cities that may be under the gun soon!

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