Mother Nature is gifting the Plains and much of the South with some much warmer weather this week into the weekend. The largest temperature change will be across the Plains where temperatures could rise more than 25 degrees above average! Highs in the 60s will surge as far north as the Dakotas and Iowa by the end of the weekend and into next week. Watch this video to see how warm it will get in your city.

Happy Valentine’s Day! Love is in the air, and unfortunately, for some parts of the country, so is rain. A storm system pushing ashore on the West Coast may cause some drizzle for the Pacific Northwest. But the real trouble area is the Southern Plains, where a low pressure system could drive heavy rain and even a potential severe weather threat. Temperatures, on the other hand, are going to be nice and warm (relatively speaking) across the country with highs 10 to 20 degrees above average.

A new crack in the iced-over Lake Erie is so huge, you can see it from space. The massive opening stretches for dozens of miles, and it’s coming with a warning about the danger of venturing out onto the frozen, but unstable landscape.

A semitractor-trailer driver had an unwelcome winter surprise in Michigan. As the semi drove along northbound U.S. 31 in Grand Haven Township, a 6-foot pile of snow on the trailer smashed a traffic light. Deputies with the Ottawa County Sheriff’s Office stopped the truck. Michigan State Police were also called to the scene and they refused to let the truck leave until the snowpile was cleared.

What was once a symbol of untainted natural beauty is now buried beneath plastic bottles, furniture, tires and even dead animals. Experts warn the pollution inundating Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Drina River is being made worse by every heavy rainfall, a problem that will continue, regardless of cleanup efforts at the site.