{"id":105693,"date":"2024-05-24T18:00:17","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T18:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/memorial-day-weekend-weather-tornadoes-and-record-high-temperatures\/"},"modified":"2024-05-24T18:00:17","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T18:00:17","slug":"memorial-day-weekend-weather-tornadoes-and-record-high-temperatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/memorial-day-weekend-weather-tornadoes-and-record-high-temperatures\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day weekend weather: Tornadoes and record-high temperatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-05-24\/ABC_052424_Memorialdayweekendweather.PNG\" alt><figcaption>ABC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(NEW YORK) &#8212; It&#8217;s been a very active week for severe storms and tornadoes &#8212; and more rough weather is in the forecast for Memorial Day weekend.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, there were more than 2 dozen reported tornadoes across Illinois, Iowa, North Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday also brought damaging winds that knocked down trees and power lines across Maine, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, as people hit the road and head to the airport for Memorial Day weekend, more severe weather is in the forecast from Austin, Texas, to Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Tornadoes, damaging winds and hail are possible in Dallas, Little Rock, Arkansas; Memphis, Tennessee; St. Louis, Missouri; Indianapolis and Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Kansas and Oklahoma could see strong tornadoes, severe wind gusts and large hail.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, cities in the bull&#8217;s-eye for tornadoes will be St. Louis; Louisville, Kentucky; and Indianapolis.<\/p>\n<p>On Memorial Day, the Northeast will face heavy rain and thunderstorms. Flash flooding is possible along the Interstate 95 corridor, especially around Philadelphia and just west of New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Record highs are also in the forecast this weekend for Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Monday could be the hottest Memorial Day on record for San Antonio, Houston, New Orleans and Miami.<\/p>\n<p>The heat index &#8212; what the temperature feels like with humidity &#8212; could top 100 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC (NEW YORK) &#8212; It&#8217;s been a very active week for severe storms and tornadoes &#8212; and more rough weather is in the forecast for Memorial Day weekend. On Thursday, there were more than 2 dozen reported tornadoes across Illinois, Iowa, North Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas. Thursday also brought<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/memorial-day-weekend-weather-tornadoes-and-record-high-temperatures\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}