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March 15, 2026 5:45 pm

High pressure off the coast will continue to pass over the region and strengthen through the week, bringing a long-duration and early season heat wave. Patchy low clouds and fog will occur once again near the coast on Monday morning before mostly clear skies take hold thereafter. This heat event will encompass temperatures up to 30 degrees above normal for this time of year, leading to moderate to high heat risk and record breaking temperatures. The area of high pressure will begin to weaken by next weekend, allowing for a gradual cooling trend.

A major winter storm will bring widespread blizzard conditions across the Northern Plains, upper Midwest and upper Great Lakes today along with widespread high winds through the mid-section of the country. Severe thunderstorms likely to sweep across the Midwest and Mid-South today, and then through the entire eastern U.S. with the highest threat across the Mid-Atlantic on Monday. An anomalously early heatwave begins to intensify across the western U.S.. Critical Risk of fire weather shifts farther south into the Southern High Plains today.