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

The changes are to make the maps easier to understand and more precise.

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 ...

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 ...