At this time’s prime climate information: New Orleans faces rising flood threat as relentless storms pummel South

FOX Climate has you lined with the breaking forecasts and climate information headlines in your Climate in America on Wednesday, Could 7, 2025. Get the newest from FOX Climate Meteorologist Britta Merwin.

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Harm reported after highly effective winds, softball-sized hail pummel Texas, Louisiana

Harm has been reported in parts of Texas and Louisiana as extreme climate tore throughout the area on Tuesday.

Highly effective storms pummeled communities with excessive winds and softball-sized hail.

Excessive climate has been threatening the South for days, from the southern Plains to the Gulf Coast, leaving a 10-year-old Texas woman lifeless after she was swept away by floodwaters. 

A video shared from Garland, Texas, exhibits hail pummeling an outside seating space as extreme climate tore throughout the area on Tuesday, Could 6, 2025.

Flash flood menace grows in New Orleans as extreme storms shift to Gulf Coast Wednesday

Extreme storms are anticipated to redevelop Wednesday afternoon throughout elements of the Texas Coastal Plain, with giant hail and robust wind gusts as the first threats. 

In the meantime, days of storms have created a flash flood menace throughout elements of Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi. A big space of thunderstorms is already soaking parts of Louisiana as of Wednesday morning.

Southeastern Louisiana, together with New Orleans, has been positioned in a Degree 3 out of 4 flash flood threat from Wednesday morning via Thursday morning. Rainfall totals might exceed a half-foot in some areas alongside the Gulf Coast as soon as the occasion wraps up by Friday.

This graphic exhibits the flash flood menace on Wednesday, Could 7, 2025.

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Could snowstorm brings ft of snow to the Rocky Mountains

Elements of the Rockies have seen ft of snow since Monday, and extra snow might pile up via Wednesday earlier than lastly petering out. 

Snow accumulations stay at elevations above 7,000 ft in Colorado and New Mexico. Chacon, New Mexico, leads the way in which with 34 inches of snow as of Tuesday night, whereas Echo Lake, Colorado, has recorded 13 inches.

Winter Storm Watches and Warnings are in impact.

This graphic exhibits the extra snow anticipated via Wednesday, Could 7, 2025.

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See planes, tools Hurricane Hunters use once they fly into a few of world’s worst storms

Hurricane season is on the horizon, and NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters are able to fly into any storms to maintain People protected.

FOX Climate Correspondent Brandy Campbell spoke with Capt. Nate Kahn, commanding officer of the NOAA Plane Operations Middle, in regards to the Hurricane Hunters and what it’s wish to fly right into a hurricane.

“Flying into the storms is an train in, I’d name it, 9 hours of gentle discomfort interspersed with two to 3 minutes of sheer and utter terror,” Kahn stated to Campbell.

Captain Nate Kahn, commanding officer of the NOAA Plane Operations Middle, supplies a behind-the-scenes have a look at the plane used to fly into hurricanes.

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