Storming Toward A Busy Weekend

While the pattern has been temporarily slowed by a western U.S. ridge and northwesterly jet stream flow across the U.S., a transition back toward zonal to southerwesterly flow is expected by the weekend which should signal a return to more routine severe thunderstorm events anywhere from the Plains to the Midwest to the South.

I won't get wrapped into the details now... I'll save that for my weekly U.S. Tornado Forecast video update scheduled for Tuesday morning!

For now, here's what the Storm Prediction Center has to say about the growing risk for organized severe thunderstorms late week:

Anecdotally, it does seem like something bigger could be lurking later in the first week of April. A further transition toward broad southwesterly flow and an open Gulf of Mexico could signal the potential for one or more organized severe weather events in the Central U.S. around April 2-8.