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Prepare for Severe Weather Season

Prepare for Severe Weather Season

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There have been numerous severe thunderstorms, tornadoes and flooding rains across much of the southern US over the past few weeks and that track could soon drift north.
Brian Smith with the National Weather Service in Valley Nebraska says we are moving into the active weather season…

Smith says the next couple of months is when severe weather peaks in the northern plains…

Smith, who has been doing weather spotter training, says they continue to see improvements in communicating during severe weather outbreaks…

The climate center at this point is predicting temperatures below normal and precipitation above normal for the month of May.

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