4.5” hail reported in Godley, just south of Ft. Worth.

Madea’s House is on my walk home from work.

Billion dollar disaster day, if such a thing still existed

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Atlanta this morning.

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Most of Georgia’s Hwy 82 Fire picked up at least a half inch of rain from this evening’s severe thunderstorm. Some estimates are near an inch on the west side of the fire, but that could be overdone due to hail contamination.

Is this like the Brady Bunch episode where Mike gets sued and he tricks the guy in the neck brace to turn around by dropping a large book on the floor in the courtroom?

The Hwy 82 Fire has a severe thunderstorm warning in effect, likely with larger hail than the initial warning. Great news though, this will help slow down the spread of the fire as up to an inch of rain occurs. Three-body scatter spike on tilt 4:

northern Japan, Scotland, British Columbia, Georgia, Florida w headline making fires atm

Some warming in the Atlantic thanks to a pattern shift towards -NAO. It will continue for a while, but it's got a big hole to climb out of to catch up with the (quite warm) global tropics

Just wait til 2027 rolls around.

The Storm Prediction Center issues Day 2 Fire Weather Outlook (Max Risk: Extreme) at Apr 25, 19:21z Link

The Highway 82 Fire has continued to defy all firefighting actions so far today and is close to running through more southeast Georgia communities.

Not official, but the presumptive cause of the most destructive fire in Georgia history was <squints> a released party balloon arcing on a power line? Looks like yet another reason to ban them.

Twin MCVs heading into an historically dry fuelscape may be a recipe for new fires and escaped containment later today. Highway 82 was active all night, and if you look close, super fog quickly clears off Pineland Road. Sea breezes, lightning and gusty outflow winds are today’s concerns.

#Riversidefire - Espanola, NM 📽 Paul J Luján, conditions at around 10pm 100 acres, 0% contained Structures damaged / destroyed: 3 Helicopters are requested to drop water on Saturday morning. The casino is expected to reopen today and some residents will be allowed to go back to their homes.

High vapor pressure deficits are a hallmark of climate change and a major player here, producing increased fire danger on top of the underlying drought. Persistent dry air this week has pushed fire danger to 20-year records in south Georgia, and most of the Southeast for that matter.

My hot take on the Southeast fires no one asked for. We’ve known this was coming since the 2025 hurricane failed to deliver landfalling systems in the region. La Niña and climate change compounded the ground water issues through fall, winter and now spring. Every indicator is as bad as it gets.

Update: The National Weather Service office in Norman, OK has declared that the April 23 tornado near Enid, OK is minimally EF4. This is the first officially rated EF4+ tornado of 2026 in the US.

The Highway 82 Fire escaped and burned down more homes today. A federal complex incident management team will take over the fire on Friday.

OUN continues Tornado Emergency [tornado: OBSERVED, damage threat: CATASTROPHIC, hail: 1.75 IN] for Garfield [OK] till 8:45 PM CDT Link

Evolution of daily sea surface temperatures (SSTs) during 1-22 April 2026 in the western portion of the eastern North Pacific. 🥵

After its failures during Jan. ice storm left 1000s without power for days, Nashville Electric Service is now lopping down entire sides of trees, posing new dangers as they flop towards homes www.tennessean.com/story/news/l...

Change from 4 weeks ago (hint: bad)

Decent coverage of the issues, but “encouraging signs of a pattern change” misses the mark. Lightning will be a major source of new fires starting this weekend. Thunderstorms also threaten the safety of aircraft and firefighters by shifting winds with little warning. No drought relief in sight.

Map of Mar 1 - Apr 23 precipitation ranks by climate division. Illustrates the disparities across the contiguous U.S. Spring (so far) has been top 10 wettest in the Upper Midwest, top 10 driest throughout the Southeast, western Plains, and Southwest U.S. Map Source: Iowa Environmental Mesonet

Pineland Road saw a double dose of sea breezes late Wednesday evening. The Atlantic sb hits it first, sending fire and smoke northwest, just before the Gulf Coast sb sends it to the north-northeast. #GAwx

Smoky skies over the Southeast this evening.

Dry lightning and open pastures. Our state is on fire again. There's gonna be nothing left of Arthur and Grant Counties after this.

Smoke from wildfires in southern Georgia and northern Florida is being carried northward, making for a hazy sky across parts of north and central Georgia. These conditions will likely persist until this weekend, when a cold front and rain shower... https://x.com/NWSAtlanta/status/2046972948553085080

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lmao the MARTA hub downtown is a complete shitshow and the unhoused situation has been getting progressively worse

Smoke from south Georgia wildfires reaching metro Atlanta

Visibility down to 6 miles at ATL. Definitely a smoky tinge to the air downtown, and air quality has been trending worse since sunrise. Should improve after 10.

Night two of the Pineland Road Fire being blown out to the west by a sea breeze front. Rough satellite estimates prior to this had it near 30,000 acres. Suspect it makes headlines tomorrow as smoke travels up I-75 tonight towards Macon and the Atlanta metro.

Hearing a lot about The Big Freeze last night in the midatlantic. Guess the grapes are lost at a lot of vineyards and wineries.

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Curious to see how much more D3-D4 there will be on Thursday’s drought monitor update. Vapor pressure deficits are off the charts, and NDMC’s flash drought blend this week is equally brutal.

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Curious to see how much more D3-D4 there will be on Thursday’s drought monitor update. Vapor pressure deficits are off the charts, and NDMC’s flash drought blend this week is equally brutal.

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Pineland Road is at least 7,000 acres now and is experiencing an ~80-degree wind shift from one of the South’s critical fire weather patterns: the sea breeze.

Impressively low air quality from smoke in Duluth from a prescribed burn in Burnett County, WI. It should thankfully clear out pretty quickly!

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A new language for climate change was voted in: “kokushobi” heat, >40°C (104°F), from the Japanese word koku, meaning harsh or cruel. 2nd choice for the new heat term was ‘super-extremely hot day’ or ‘cho-mosho-bi’, while ‘sauna day’, ‘stay-at-home day’ and ‘boiling day’ were also among the choices.

She gone. The Pineland Road fire that grew ~2300 acres in its first burn period yesterday is off to the races behind today’s dry cold front. RH in south Georgia will drop into the 20s this evening, barely recover into the 40s tonight before tanking as low as 10-15% on Monday.

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The Dec-Mar 2025-26 period in the Lower 48 is the driest Dec-Mar on record (since 1940-41). A staggering 46.4% of the area was in the "Much Below" or "Record" dry categories (lowest 10th percentile) and over 70% of the area was in the "Below" or drier categories (lowest 33rd percentile).

The contiguous United States is experiencing record drought levels for this time of year, according to weather data.