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HAPPINESS

IS A WARM CUP

April 18, 2025 10:03 pm

Southern California Overview:

  • Hit-and-miss showers continue through this evening, most likely over the mountains, parts of the high desert, and southern San Diego County. After a cloudy, cool, and breezy day today, dry and
    warmer conditions are on tap for the weekend into early next week, with high temperatures near to around 5 degrees above average by Monday. Gradual cooling follows Tuesday through Friday.

    • United States Overview:

    • Heavy rain is expected to develop over the south-central Plains tonight into Saturday with a moderate risk of excessive rainfall and a slight risk of severe thunderstorms Saturday night into Sunday. Snow across central Colorado will slide south into New Mexico through tonight into Saturday morning as very warm air expands into the eastern U.S. this weekend.

Local/State Headlines

  • 100 days after Palisades Fire, residents seek help to return home.
  • Cloudy conditions remain in SoCal Friday, but sunshine returns Easter weekend.

Nat’l/Int’l Headlines…

  • Friday severe storms target Midwest, Plains as over 100 million Americans under threat through Easter Sunday.
  • Damaging hail, winds could lead to Easter travel delays.
  • Severe storms unleash destructive hail and tornadoes in the Midwest.
  • Wind-driven baseball-sized hail destroys car windows, blisters siding of buildings in Nebraska.
  • Tornado captured on camera rolling across Iowa.
  • Watch: Hotel, vehicle windows shattered following ferocious hailstorm in Fremont, NE.
  • Worried about the weekend forecast? Nat'l Weather Service may struggle to help.
  • Springtime snow falls in Colorado, Rockies.
  • Denver area pummeled by Easter weekend snowstorm that's complicating holiday travel.
  • Large tornado spotted in Iowa as severe storms blast Plains on Thursday.
  • Terrifying dust storm engulfs car in York, Nebraska: 'Oh my God, I'm in a tornado'.
  • See it: Peru mountain climbers scramble as massive glacier shatters behind them.
  • Aloha snow! Winter weather advisory issued in Hawaii.
  • Smoke from wildfire flare-ups still plague Myrtle Beach area 7 weeks after flames began.
  • NASA astronaut Don Pettit to return to Earth after more than 200 days in space.
  • Could alien life thrive on K2-18b? What to know about the distant exoplanet.

NOAA Weather

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On this day – 4.18.2000

A storm that started on 4/17 and ended on this day brought up to two inches of rainfall to lower elevations and 18 inches of snow to Wrightwood. Winds gusted to 68 mph in the mountains of San Diego County. A severe thunderstorm brought downburst winds estimated at 80 to 100 mph from Bellflower to Diamond Bar. 0.75” hail was reported in Downey. The storm left severe damage to factories and mobile home parks in Paramount (one mobile home was blown over). Wind damage was done to trees, power lines and numerous buildings along the entire path. A large Eucalyptus fell over I-5, closing the freeway for three hours.

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