Major League Baseball is back, and while the weather is a home run for most teams, Mother Nature might be sending a few curveballs.

Yet again in what has been a very active month for severe weather, another round of severe thunderstorms is forecast in the Midwest Thursday. Here are the forecast details and perspective about another busy March.

Lingering instability from a Kona low that had already caused extensive flooding on the North Shore of Oahu led to torrents of rain falling Monday in parts of Honolulu. Reddish-brown geysers gushed along roads in the Manoa Valley, a few miles east of downtown Honolulu, sweeping away parked cars and swamping much of the neighborhood. The downpour was highly localized. One rain gauge in the upper part of the valley recorded 6 inches, according to the Associated Press, while the airport a few miles away got just one-hundredth of an inch.

A much needed pattern change will bring heat relief to the Western U.S. next week. Several rounds of rain and high elevation snow look likely starting Tuesday and continuing into Wednesday and Thursday. The Eastern U.S. will see a warmer and more stormy pattern set up next week after a cooler weekend ahead. Here is the latest.

Every short person can probably relate to this little corgi’s frustrations as a New York blizzard piled up snow in his backyard. Watch Tater take on at least a foot of powder with boundless enthusiasm.