Thunderstorms creating later Saturday in southern Plains
Scattered showers and thunderstorms are anticipated to pop over the weekend all through the South. FOX Weather Meteorologist Kendall Smith has the latest forecast.
Welcome to the Daily Weather Update from FOX Weather. It’s Saturday, April 20, 2024, and National Record Store Day. Start your day with all the pieces you could find out about right now’s climate. You may also get a fast briefing of nationwide, regional and native climate everytime you like with the FOX Weather Update podcast.
Super soaker Saturday within the South
While Friday was a comparatively quiet day after all of the extreme climate earlier within the week, storm exercise started to redevelop Friday night time throughout the southern Plains. Now, -numerous showers and thunderstorms are rising Saturday, leading to attainable downpours able to producing flash flooding.
NOAA’s Weather Prediction Center has a lot of East Texas into northern Louisiana, southern Arkansas and western Mississippi in a Level 2 out of 4 flash flooding menace over the weekend. Widespread areas of 1-2 inches of rain with some spots reaching 3 inches of rain via Sunday morning.
Denver: Snow right now, 60s tomorrow
Denver is doing Denver issues this weekend. A cold storm is depositing snow throughout the Colorado Plains and Front Range Saturday morning. Snow totals ranged from about 2-5 inches across the Denver space to 5-7 inches in Boulder and over a foot of snow within the foothills. Do you seize a shovel? Or simply wait a bit for Mother Nature’s free shoveling service? Sunday’s excessive in Denver is 68. (75 on Monday!)
Antarctica: There’s gold in these hills
Antarctica, which is home to lots of of energetic volcanoes, has one on the continent that spews actual gold mud with a financial worth. Scientists found that its gusts of fuel are loaded with tiny crystals of metallic gold.
Mount Erebus Volcano, Ross Island, Antarctica. (DeAgostini / Getty Images)
National Parks Week kicks off!
Saturday kicks off National Parks week! The National Parks Service is celebrating by giving free park admission Saturday in any respect of America’s 400 nationwide parks. Meanwhile, FOX Weather is celebrating by exploring “Utah’s Mighty Five” nationwide parks all through the week.
FOX Weather takes you on a scenic tour of Badlands National Park
Saturday marks the beginning of National Parks Week, and FOX Weather is happy to convey you an inside have a look at a number of the most beautiful places within the nation. This journey takes us to South Dakota, the place you’ll find a number of the world’s richest fossils. FOX Weather’s Robert Ray might be your information on a scenic tour of Badlands National Park.
Watch this
A Bucyrus, Ohio postal employee had an in depth name when a low-end twister blew via city and almost injured him. While checking on a rattling window, it exploded open in a burst of wind, hitting the person with damaged glass.
Watch: EF-1 twister hits submit workplace in Bucyrus, Ohio
Ohio witnessed 5 tornadoes this week, and one in every of them hit a submit workplace in Bucyrus. An worker was injured within the incident as particles entered their eye when a window shattered. The twister was ranked as an EF-1 and lasted for 3.5 miles, with most winds of 110 mph.
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