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Flagstaff tornado warnings: what happened in northern Arizona

Warnings directly over downtown Flagstaff and radar-indicated rotation — and what 'radar-indicated' actually means.

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El Niño looms large over NOAA's U.S. Winter Outlook

A very strong El Niño: warmer North, wetter South, drought relief for most of the country, December 2026–February 2027.

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New map reveals when every U.S. state will get its first snowfall

The Rockies are already seeing flakes, the Cascades and Upper Midwest are next in late October, and most of the Northeast waits until mid-November to mid-December.

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