The Daily Weather Update from FOX Weather: Rounds of severe storms threaten Easter week plans for millions

Weather successful America: April 16, 2025

FOX Weather has you covered with the breaking forecasts and upwind quality headlines for your Weather successful America connected Wednesday, April 16, 2025. Get the latest from FOX Weather Meteorologist Ari Sarsalari.

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Renewed terrible storms people Midwest, South threatening Easter question for millions this weekend

An progressive agelong of severe weather is expected to develop precocious this week and proceed into the Easter weekend, with the astir important threats apt connected Friday and implicit the weekend.

There's a accidental for precise isolated thunderstorms implicit Nebraska and Kansas connected Wednesday evening. By Thursday morning, storms could nutrient ample hail successful parts of Nebraska, bluish Missouri and Iowa.

The astir important terrible upwind menace is expected to make connected Friday, covering an country stretching from the confederate Plains each the mode into the Great Lakes region. Numerous thunderstorms are expected to make Friday day and evening, impacting those celebrating Good Friday. The threats see damaging winds, ample hail and perchance tornadoes.

While the details of however storms volition interaction Saturday and Easter Sunday are inactive coming together, determination is the imaginable for much aggravated storms, including tornadoes implicit regions that person been deed precise hard implicit the past month, including portions of the confederate Plains, little and mid-Mississippi Valley and mid-South region.

Weather whiplash to bring late-season snowfall to Rockies

A important late-season snowstorm is expected to bring precocious winds and arsenic overmuch arsenic 1-2 feet of snow to the Rockies from Wednesday nighttime done Saturday. 

Ahead of the winter weather, temperatures whitethorn ascent to grounds levels successful Colorado, with highs successful the 70s to little 80s.

Winter Storm Watches and Winter Weather Advisories are successful spot for Montana, Wyoming and Utah. 

Dangerous occurrence upwind conditions expected crossed Southwest

Winds volition prime up, and humidity levels volition driblet crossed parts of the Southwest opening Wednesday, bringing a captious occurrence upwind threat, conducive to the accelerated dispersed of immoderate wildfires that are sparked.

Fire Weather Watches and Warnings are up posted for much than 10 cardinal people.

New Mexico could spot upwind gusts of up to 60 mph. Albuquerque and Santa Fe volition beryllium successful an country of utmost occurrence upwind conditions connected Thursday earlier winds statesman to subside Friday and into Saturday.

Watch: Terrified hiker holds decease grip successful melodramatic nail-biting cliffside rescue successful California

A stranded and terrified hiker was safely rescued by archetypal responders successful California aft she slipped down a cliffside and was forced to clasp connected for beloved beingness to forestall herself from tumbling to the crushed below.

The nail-biting rescue was captured connected video by the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office Aviation Unit connected April 13 successful the Whitewater country on the Pacific Crest Trail southbound of San Bernardino County.

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