Track everything from current conditions, forecasts and potential impacts from the severe weather outbreak here.

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If you have ever noticed small black diagonal lines on a severe weather map, those markings have a specific meaning. The system is called hatching, and it is used by the Storm Prediction Center to ...

States across the central and eastern U.S. are under extreme heat watches and warnings as the areas face a dangerous heat wave throughout the first half of the week, according to the National Weather ...

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As Chicago welcomes meteorological spring with a “weather whiplash” of 60-degree temperatures and rounds of snow, the latest Climate Prediction Center’s seasonal temperature outlook maps show things ...