Tracking the 2025 bad weather
The severe weather phenomenon so far this year has caused billions of dollars in total damage and economic losses to communities across the country.
The Memorial Day weekend began as a few days of thunderstorms and heavy rain systems collided with parts of the country’s south-central parts of the country, predictors said.
On Saturday morning, May 24th, nearly 4 million people were watching a heavy thunderstorm, across the large strip of Oklahoma and parts of Arkansas. The risk of a severe storm spreads southeasterly from the South Plain, and isolated, intense storms are possible in South Florida, the Storm Prediction Center said. The Mississippi Valley and the Tennessee Valley states in the central and lower Mississippi Valley also have risks of showers and thunderstorms, according to the National Weather Service.
Storms can often lead to lightning, intense gusts of wind, hail, and even several tornadoes.
Memorial Day weekend forecast
Forecasters said much of the country’s heart would see a wet, rainy holiday weekend.
The rain and showers scattered across the Great Lakes region and the northeast are expected over the weekend, but will be finished by Memorial Day, the Weather Service said.
Stationery facades from the southeast to the north and the Central Rocky Mountain area will be extended until the holidays, causing showers, thunderstorms and heavy rains, and at risk of flash floods. On May 24th, around 4 million people were under flood monitoring, mainly in southeastern Kansas, southwestern Missouri and northern Arkansas.
“The associated heavy rains create areas with mostly local flash floods, where urban areas, roads, small streams and lowland areas are the most vulnerable,” the Weather Service said.
Forecasters say the states of central and southern plains, central and lower Mississippi Valley and Tennessee Valley have seen an increase in excessive rainfall threats on May 25th. Flash floods remain at risk later in the weekend. Until May 26th, the risk of thunderstorms in the area will last, especially for hail exceeding 2 inches in parts of the Southern High Plains.
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2025 has seen the worst tornado season for over 10 years
According to Accuweather, since 2011, there have been more than 900 preliminary reports of tornadoes this year, making it the busiest this year. The 922 reports recorded in late May are 281, exceeding the historic average of 641 for this period, the outlet said.
The four states with the most reports of tornadoes are Mississippi, Illinois, Missouri and Texas. Each of these states has seen between 87 and 97 tornadoes so far, Accuweather reported.
The mid-May rash of a tornado that erupted across the country’s centre left a fatal road after which more than two dozen deaths in Kentucky and Missouri. Deaths were concentrated in London, Kentucky and Laurel County, killing at least 17 people on May 16th.
