The week ahead offers some severe weather risks to deal with across much of the Southern Plains from Texas and Oklahoma eastward into Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee and Mississippi. The Storm Prediction Center is indicating areas of risk today and Monday though it is not risk for widespread severe weather. Rather it is the risk for isolated severe thunderstorms.
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Weather systems across the US have not been able to move west to east thanks to a blocking pattern in the Northeast US and Eastern Canada. That block is finally breaking down this week and that will allow weather systems to resume their natural movement from west to east.
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Later this week we will see low pressure in the Western Caribbean become better organized and we could see a tropical storm develop by Thursday and then the system will head into the Gulf of Mexico through the Yucatan Channel. Weather models are coming around to the idea that conditions will be favorable for strengthening as this system heads northward through the Central and Eastern Gulf of Mexico.