Andrew Revering @F5Weather

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Our first giveaway has completed, and one lucky winner is going to receive an Acurite Lightning Detector! If you entered in our first drawing, check your email to see if you are the winner! Winners will be posted on the drawing web page (link below) once the winner has been contacted. Our next bi-weekly weather-related giveaway has begun! Every couple weeks we will give away weather-related items like rain gauges, thermometers, barometers, hygrometers, lightning detectors, weather stations, weather radios, and related items. No purchase is necessary to have your chance to win! Each giveaway you will get to see what the item is, and then choose to enter via an online form. There is no catch -- we're just trying to drum up some traffic, so help us out and tell your friends! You will have to re-enter for each giveaway because we don't want to send it off to someone who doesn't actually want the item. Each person can only register once. Your odds of winning will depend on the size of the entry pool. This week's giveaway is an Acurite Weather Forecaster Wireless Digital Color Display! Go to f5wx.com/giveaway/ to submit your email for a chance to win this week's item, and see a list of upcoming weather gadgets! Be sure to tell your friends!

This Week in Weather — June 30 - July 5 The first few days of July will be dictated by the jet laying way north, along the international border. This will help to build unusually hot air across the United States, with temperatures above normal, even for this time of year, across the east. Highs could get to 100° or even warmer in cities like Washington D.C., Baltimore and Philadelphia. Even Detroit has a shot at 100° on Wednesday & Thursday. Parts of the Southwest will be unusually cool for this time of year. Coastal Southern California will be in the 70s. Even most of the Desert Southwest will have highs only in the 90s early in the period, but those temperatures will creep up into the 100s by the weekend, with places like Yuma and Phoenix approaching 110° by Sunday. It'll be wet across Florida where heavy rains are expected. The severe storms should primarily be from the Northern High Plains toward the Great Lakes and Northeast, into southern Canada. Several rounds of severe storms, and perhaps even a Derecho or two can be expected over the next several days in these areas. All facets of severe weather look possible, with primarily damaging high straightline winds, large hail and a few tornadoes being possible. It should be largely sunny across the central and southern plains into the Rockies, with dry conditions over much of the west. Wildfire smoke is building, especially over Colorado and adjacent states. Another batch of wildfire smoke is developing over western Quebec thanks to fires there as well. With the unusually warm summer heat in place, and dry conditions -- especially in the west -- more fires and additional smoke is expected to develop as we get deeper into summer. See the latest at f5weather.com

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F5Weather has begun our bi-weekly Weather-related giveaways! We have begun a giveaway program where every couple weeks we will give away weather-related items like rain gauges, thermometers, barometers, hygrometers, lightning detectors, weather stations, weather radios, and related items. No purchase is necessary to have your chance to win! Each giveaway you will get to see what the item is, and then choose to enter via an online form. There is no catch -- we're just trying to drum up some traffic, so help us out and tell your friends! You will have to re-enter for each giveaway because we don't want to send it off to someone who doesn't actually want the item. Each person can only register once. Your odds of winning will depend on the size of the entry pool. This week's giveaway is an Acurite Lightning Detector! Go to f5wx.com/giveaway/ to submit your email for a chance to win this week's item, and see a list of upcoming weather gadgets! Be sure to tell your friends!

This Week in Weather — June 23 - June 28 The jet stream this week will be relatively zonal, and reside across the northern tier of the country, until next weekend. Then on Saturday a significant system will come ashore in the Pacific Northwest and disrupt that flow, amplifying the jet. This will set the stage for more organized severe storms across the northern plains by Sunday into early next week. But before then, isolated severe storms are expected from the Mid-Atlantic and Great Lakes through the Midwest and to the Front Range. The next few days an upslope flow in the central Rockies will coincide with a decent mid level flow and orographic lifting with surface based moisture to produce severe storms and tornadoes there. This will be especially true from the high plains of Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska and Kansas. Elsewhere, heavy rains and isolated severe storms will be possible from the Upper Midwest, through the Midwest and to the East Coast. It will be warmer than normal over Florida, Quebec, British Columbia and parts of the Southwest. Cooler than normal conditions are expected across the Eastern Rockies and Upper Midwest to the Western Great Lakes. It should be largely sunny from Texas into the Southwest toward the Central and Southern Pacific Coast. The one exception is over much of Utah, which is dealing with wildfire smoke from wildfires in Utah and Nevada. See the latest at f5weather.com

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This Week in Weather — May 19 to May 24 Unusually cold conditions are still gripping the central part of the country this week. The jet will generally come out of the southwest and head toward the Great Lakes and then to Quebec. This sets up a warmer dome over parts of the Southeast, but still much of the area will be near normal or even cooler than normal by the end of the period. The cooler temperatures across the central into the Great Lakes is largely due to storms and heavy rain keeping the temps down. Just east of those storms, the narrow band of record heat in the east will ease by Thursday & Friday. In the north, freeze warnings and frost advisories are covering much of the Dakotas, Minnesota Wyoming and into parts of Nebraska. Tuesday some thunder and scattered severe looks likely from Missouri to southeastern Ontario. The SPC has a slight risk area for severe weather from Lakes Ontario & Erie down the Ohio Valley towards the Paducah, KY vicinity. Some gusty straight-line winds are the primary threat in this area today. Another area of storms look possible in south Texas where another slight risk for severe weather exists today. In northwestern Ontario, some snow and even ice look possible today, thanks to the unusually cold air settled across the area. This cold air will likely only be around this week, as guidance suggests much above normal temperatures starting next week for most of the nation. In the west, pleasant weather is expected this week, with sunshine and dry conditions for most, and slightly above normal temperatures in the Pacific Northwest. See the latest at f5weather.com

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This week the jet stream will generally be zonal across the northern tier of the country, although there will be quite a few waves along it. This position will help to build a warm bubble across much of the west and central part of the country, with above normal temperatures from western Mexico into the Northern Plains. Cooler than normal temperatures will wrap around this wedge, in the Pacific Northwest, across Canada, and then down much into much of the Eastern part of the country to Georgia. It doesn't look like any real big organized severe weather episodes are likely, however Saturday would be the best chance if that did occur. Storms look possible Saturday from Michigan southwest to Kansas and Missouri. Perhaps even into western Oklahoma, as the SPC currently is outlining that area for the potential of severe storms. Some heavier rains look possible in parts of New England and Florida this week. Areas like Tennessee, The Front Range and of course the Southwest look to have abundant sunshine. See the latest at f5weather.com

This Week in Weather — May 5 to May 10 This week will again be generally cooler than normal over much of the lower 48 states. Warm conditions will exist in the western Rockies, over Florida and coastal New England. A late season snowfall is expected over the Colorado Rockies. The biggest totals (6"+) will be in the higher elevations, but even Denver could see 3-6" Tuesday into Wednesday. The storm tracks will generally stay across the southern Plains toward the Mid-Atlantic, with unusually dry conditions expected in the west. It will be sunny, warm and dry over much of Washington & Oregon south to Arizona into Mexico. This will hurt an already dry situation over most of that area, and increase the fire danger. The longer range forecasts give the Pacific Northwest pretty dry conditions over the next 3-4 weeks. Rounds of thunderstorms with some severe storms, are expected across the south and east. Today, Tuesday, some isolated strong storms look possible south of the lower Great Lakes into northern New England. Another more organized area of severe weather looks likely over Arkansas on Tuesday. This area will drift to the south and east for Wednesday into the deep south. The area will transition eastward posing a threat for severe storms on Thursday in the Carolinas. Looking way out to next weekend, some severe weather looks possible Saturday over eastern Kansas and across Missouri and maybe into Illinois. See the latest at f5weather.com

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This Week in Weather — April 14 to April 19 We're starting the week out with severe storms, flooding, hail and tornadoes across the north-central part of the country. On Monday, there were 15 tornado reports, 21 damaging wind reports, and 161 hail reports across parts of northern Iowa, southern Minnesota into Wisconsin, as well as eastern Kansas. This will continue to extend to the east across the Great Lakes and Northeast over the next few days. Severe storms this week look possible, if not likely from Texas to Michigan and east to New England. Very heavy rains are expected within this area in the northern tier from eastern Iowa to New England, and north into southern Ontario and Quebec. Farther north, winter still has a grasp over parts of Canada where heavy snow and freezing rain look possible this week. Some heavy mountain snows are also expected in the Pacific Northwest, with heavy coastal rains in western Washington and Oregon. The Jet stream will largely bisect the nation from the Southwest toward the Great Lakes. East of here generally warm and stormy conditions are expected, especially closer to the jet stream. Farther from the jet, in the southeast, unusually dry conditions are expected. It will be sunny and dry over Florida. This will only aggrevate an already extreme to exceptional drought across the state. In the west, generally cooler than normal conditions are expected, with sunny skies expected in the southwest, and into western Kansas. See the latest at f5weather.com

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Humans achieved an incredible milestone as the 4 member crew of Artemis II went further into space than any human before them. They passed around the dark side of the moon and have now begun their return trajectory back home. In other news, the CPC is forecasting an expansion of the drought in the west and into the plains this spring. A multi-day severe weather outbreak may be brewing starting next weekend and perhaps into early next week across the central states. Follow us for more weather news like this, or join our newsletter mailing list. f5weather.com

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This Week in Weather — April 5 to April 12 This week a split jet will keep the really big storms at bay for a while. One leg of the jet will reside from the north-central part of the country to the northeast, pretty much right along the Canadian border. This will bottle up most of the cold air in Canada, with some of it spilling out over the Northern Plains, Great Lakes and Northeast this week. Any big snows will be kept to our north, as it should be for this time of year. The southern jet basically follows the Mexico border. This will keep the lower 48 states overall pretty mundane. It will be warm in the west and southwest, and cool in the northeast as a rule. Next weekend there could be some heavy rain and severe storms over parts of the plains. Warm air will surge northward in that time frame as well. This will set the stage for perhaps a few days of severe weather in the central part of the country, extending into early next week. It will be dry and sunny over the deep south -- think Huntsville/Atlanta. The next couple days will remain unsettled over Florida as a frontal boundary fires off showers and thunderstorms across the peninsula. See the latest at f5weather.com

This Week in Weather — March 10 to March 15 This week will be another active one for most of the country. The jet is laying across the northern tier, bottling up the colder air primarily in Canada, with some spilling over into the northern states. Here is where a strong storm is expected to track from west to east this coming weekend. To the south, in the warm sector, severe storms look possible for the central part of the country. To the north, along and north of the jet stream, a swath of heavy late season snow is expected from the Canadian Rockies to the Great Lakes, and then back up into Quebec. Most people along that track will see at least 6", with some areas in mountains in the west, or in Quebec in the east seeing amounts of 12-24"+. This same storm may produce a narrow band of freezing rain from Michigan to Montreal and Maine. But before all that happens, severe storms look likely today (Tuesday), Wednesday and Thursday from the central US to the Southeast. Storms can be expected today from Texas to Michigan (yes again). A few strong tornadoes could again be possible today. It will be warm across much of the US with the exception of the far northern border states and in Canada. Sunshine and dry conditions are of course expected across the southwest. See the latest at f5weather.com

This week, the primary jet will reside across the north, bottling up the cold and snow in Canada, with some of it across the Great Lakes into the Northeast. But generally, much of the nation will be warm and uneventful, especially across the southern two-thirds of the country. Some thunder looks possible across the southeast this week, but nothing too crazy yet. Sunshine will be dominant in the southwest, say from Kansas and points south and west of there. It will also be very dry from Arizona to Texas. On the other hand, some heavy rains are expected from coastal Northern California into Oregon. Some high elevation heavy snows look possible from the Cascades into the far Northern Rockies, but nothing too heavy in the lower elevations. See the latest at f5weather.com

More ICE news from Minnesota: It was -43° at Brimson and Kabetogama Lake. -42° at Ash Lake this morning for actual morning air temperature lows.