We're watching the midwest and Great Lakes get raked by severe weather and flash flooding through Wednesday. It looks like a lot of severe weather. Hail will also pound Wyoming, Montana and North Dakota Tuesday as a pocket of very chilly air moves in across the Pacific Northwest and northern Rockies. Late season snow will hit ID, WA, OR, western MT and western WY.

The southwest dorought will deepen through the rest of June. The dry weather for the southeast will break around June 20.

We'll be watching more severe weather. Spotty Severe weather will continue across the Gulf Coast states.

We're taking a breather for the first part of the week. The next round of severe weather will hold off until Wednesday night - when the central plains will get hit with a couple of tornadoes and some large hail. Until we will be catching up on studies.

We're toying with something big and bold for 2009 - a big six week educational blow-out starting in June. It will be for college juniors, seniors and post grads. We'll bring in meteorologists with at least 15 years of experience. and for six weeks we'll unleash our wisdom using realtime weather events and case studies. We're thinking of having 6 or 7 hour days, four or five days a week. The brainpower won't be cheap to bring in, so the cost may be on the order of $500 to $1,000 a week for the six weeks. But, we think we might be able to offer a scholarship for the top two students - $10,000 to the university of their choice.

Again, its all in the planning stage. Let us know if you might be interested at metcenter at rapidwx.com .

We're watching 3 things this week. First, there's the double storm system moving across the U.S. Second, we're watching the pool of very cold air over northern Canada. Third, we're following NPR's story about the oceans not warming over the past 4 years.

Today through Wednesday
Students will be watching the severe weather outbreak across Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas. The outbreak will be spotty Saturday night and become widespread early Sunday.

The next massive outbreak of severe weather will be Monday through Wednesday across
the Ohio and Tennessee River Valleys and the southern Plains, north to central Illinois and
southern Iowa. There will be a lot of reports of tornadoes, large hail, wind gusts in excess
of 100 mph and flash flooding. We're anticipating this system to produce several fatalities.
It will also have a large impact on the spring planting as many areas will see damage to
farm fields, forcing the replanting of crops.

Today through Wednesday morning online students will be working with the severe weather outbreak across the southeast. They will be monitoring satellite, upper air and radar data in real-time with extensive support from IAOM. We're estimating 35 to 70 tornadoes with the system - along with extensive areas of wind damage. IAOM researchers will be working on correlating 6 to 12 hour severe weather forecasts with the number of casualties.

They will also be monitoring the ice storm potential for portions on NY, southern Ontario, southern Quebec, VT and NH - which will be followed by the near-blizzard.

So, students are working on a wide range of nasty weather.

Medium range forecasters are watching the March 11 to 14 severe weather outbreak, snow and ice storm.