If you are traveling today, these late morning notes:
SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS
In progress in these areas:
East Missouri
Central and North Illinois
North half of Indiana
West Kentucky
West Tennessee
NW and West Alabama
Locally heavy rain in some of those areas. Radar estimates show 1 to 2 inches of rain in Shelby County, Tenn., and a Flash Flood Warning expired at 10 am for the Memphis area. Some heavy rain has shifted further east into West Tennessee.
SNOW
Snowing in these areas:
North Kansas
East Nebraska
Most of Iowa
Part of Wisconsin
SEVERE WEATHER
NWS/SPC (Storm Prediction Center, Norman, Okla.,) has these areas under a slight risk for severe weather today and tonight:
Extreme East Texas
Most of Arkansas except NW 1/4
North half of Louisiana including all of route I-20
North and Central Mississippi, including Jackson north
Extreme NW Alabama, including Hamilton/Russellville/Florence (BHM/TCL not included)
West half of Tennessee
SW Corner of Kentucky
Missouri Bootheel
WHERE IT IS BELOW FREEZING AT 10 AM CST
North Arizona, North New Mexico, Texas Pandhandle. Wichita, Omaha, Upper Michigan northward. 5 to 10 degrees in Western Wyoming.
USA EXTREMES
90 Pecos, Texas, where I spent the night once in a blinding dust storm
6 below zero this morning inside Yellowstone National Park at Yellowstone Lake
6 below also at Northway, Alaska
