Brittany Lockley

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<p>Milton continues to churn in the Gulf of Mexico. It is as a <strong>Category 4</strong> storm. It is expected to make landfall overnight on Wednesday along the West-Central coast of Florida. Milton will bring life altering impacts to the state of Florida, which include dangerous storm surge, hurricane-force winds, and life-threatening flooding. According to the National Hurricane Center's Wednesday’s&nbsp;5 AM ET Update - <em>"Milton will bring life-threatening storm surge and winds to portions of the Florida Gulf Coast"</em><strong><em> </em>-</strong> With these wind speeds<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">&nbsp;</span></p><p>With the last few days the intensity of Milton has went up and down quite a bit. On Monday, the central pressure within Milton tumbled to a historically low level. The central pressure dropped to below 900 millibars, which placed Milton as the 5th lowest pressure from an Atlantic named storm. Milton is expected to weaken some as it approaches the Florida Coastline, but the impacts will still be strong.</p><h1>Forecast</h1><p>The latest forecast for Milton shifts the track of the storm slightly south, based on recent movements. However, it is important to remember the margin of error in the hurricane's center is 40 miles 24 hours ahead of landfall, according to the National Hurricane Center. Landfall is expected Wednesday night, during the darkness of the nighttime, into early Thursday morning. Milton will technically weaken from a category and wind standpoint, but the storm will become larger in size. This means major impacts will reach farther by the time Milton reaches Florida.</p><p><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot 2024-10-09 061553-1728476168457.png">It is important to stress not focus too heavily on landfall because half the storm is typically onshore by that point. Landfall is of course when we expect the worst of the conditions and the strongest of the winds but tropical storm-force winds will push into Florida as early as Wednesday morning.</p><h2>Storm Surge</h2><p>According to the NHC, storm surge will be one of the greatest impact. Milton has the potential for a surge of 10-15 feet for Tampa to Sarasota. If the center stays south of Tampa Bay, it would mean the surge could be less in Tampa Bay.</p><p><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot 2024-10-09 061650-1728476216548.png"></p><h2>Wind Forecast</h2><p>Tropical Alerts have been issued for the Sunshine State. for several days now. A hurricane warning is in place for portions of the West Coast of Florida and as far inland as Orlando.</p><p><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot 2024-10-09 030444-1728464695335.png"></p><h2>Rain &amp; Flooding Forecast</h2><p>Conditions are expected to deteriorate along the coast Wednesday. Heavy rainfall is already starting to moving in the western coast of Florida Wednesday Morning. Milton could bring over 18 inches of rainfall to parts of Florida, making</p><p><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot 2024-10-09 061724-1728476249324.png"></p><h2>Tornado Threat</h2><p>There is a significant tornado threat for cities like Port Charlotte and Avon Park. This means, an EF-2 in strength, or stronger, is possible.</p><p><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot 2024-10-09 062456-1728476703021.png"></p><p>Tune in to WeatherNation throughout the day for your live coverage of Milton.</p>

Jackie Brown

Taban Sharifi

Milton Expected to Make Landfall in Florida as a Major Hurricane

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<p>While tropical activity in the Atlantic normally tends to trend down through October, impactful systems can and do occur during the final two months of hurricane season. However, in the Atlantic, we are currently monitoring two tropical disturbances, Tropical Storm Leslie, and Hurricane Milton.</p><h1>Atlantic Ocean</h1><p>For more information on Milton in the Gulf, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.weathernationtv.com/news/tropical-trouble-returns-to-the-caribbean">click here</a>.</p><h2>Disturbance #1: Southwestern Atlantic</h2><p>A non-tropical area of low pressure northeast of The Bahamas is currently producing gale-force winds. These showers continue to become better organized. Conditions are not as favorable, due to upper-level winds, but it may become tropical or subtropical  Wednesday .</p><h2><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot 2024-10-09 031651-1728465421159.png">Disturbance #2: Eastern Atlantic</h2><p>A tropical wave is expected to move off of the coast of Africa in the next day or two. Environmental conditions are only marginally conducive for tropical development towards the Cabo Verde Islands.</p><p><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot 2024-10-09 031616-1728465430982.png"></p><h2>Hurricane Leslie</h2><p>Leslie continues moving northwest over the Central Atlantic with no coastal alerts or hazards to land expected.</p><p><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot 2024-10-09 031729-1728465457854.png"></p><p>Leslie is expected to move turn north late Wednesday and northeast by Friday.</p><p><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot 2024-10-09 031801-1728465494736.png"></p><h1>Eastern Pacific</h1><p>The National Hurricane Center is monitoring a tropical disturbance - deemed Invest EP99, offshore of southwestern Mexico. Showers and storms have decreased in intensity so the chance for a tropical depression has lowered but is still possible over the next day or so. The southwestern coast of Mexico should monitor the progression.</p><p><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot 2024-10-09 031829-1728465519142.png">Hurricane season officially ends Saturday, November 30th, which means there are only 53 days until hurricane season is over.</p>

Tropical Update: Leslie Fishes, A Wave North of the Bahamas, Another Wave Near Africa

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<p><strong>BOISE, ID—The Valley Fire, a new fire east of Boise, Idaho, started on Friday.</strong> It is located along Highway 21 near Highland Valley Summit (SE of Boise). The NWS encourages citizens to avoid the area while crews work on containment.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot 2024-10-09 032510-1728465921349.png">Additional wildfires continue to burn in the state of Wyoming including the Elk Fire and the Pack Fire. The Pack Fire has likely become a complex fire now that it has joined acreage with a fire that was previously burning to the north. Together, these fires have burned over 130k acres.</p><p><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot 2024-10-09 032541-1728465949953.png"></p><p><strong>Air Quality Alerts </strong>remain in effect across the Western United States due to wildfire smoke burning to the north. This smoke is expected to get caught in the jet stream and push down into places like Denver and Rapid City.</p><p><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot 2024-10-09 032602-1728465972908.png">Here's a look at the latest smoke forecast for the western U.S. through the Plains.</p><video src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/10/2024-10-09 03-26-30-1728466018853.mp4" controls="true" width="100%"></video><p>Meanwhile, fires continue to burn across Southern California. The Line Fire, which was mostly contained a week ago, has begun to spread yet again with dry and hot conditions returning to the West Coast (see above).</p><p></p><div class="twitter-tweet" style="display: flex; justify-content: center" data-twitt-post-id="1843331067341910086" src="https://x.com/SanBernardinoNF/status/1843331067341910086"></div><p>For more details on the heat and fire threat this week, catch your Regional Forecasts at :30 and :50 past every hour!</p>

Fire Danger Continues for the West

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Alana Cameron was born and raised in Canada in the city of Mississauga, just outside of Toronto. Alana is the oldest of 4 siblings, all close in age, and grew up playing outside with them in all types of weather. After graduating high school, Alana moved to study at the University of British Columbia in Kelowna for a year before transferring to Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia where she completed a Bachelor of Science in Physics and Atmospheric Science. Upon completion, Alana moved back to Toronto where she completed a post-grad degree in Meteorology at York University. After her post-grad, she went on to complete another post-grad in Broadcast Journalism - TV News at Fanshawe College in London, Ontario. During her final year of studies she had the privilege of interning with the best in the business in Canada at The Weather Network. Once she finished her internship, she got the call from small-town Denison, Texas where she accepted a job as an on-air meteorologist at KTEN-TV, right in tornado alley, covering severe weather from Sherman/Denison (North Texas) to Ada (Southern Oklahoma). After the most active tornado season Oklahoma had seen in May 2019 (105 tornadoes!) Alana is excited to join WeatherNation to cover weather all across the nation. If you're interested in following her on social media she can be found @alanacameronwx!

Alana Cameron

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<p><strong>PHOENIX, AZ </strong>- Phoenix has undergone 2 full weeks of record-breaking temperatures. Tuesday, Phoenix's high temperature rose to 108° which smashed the previous record of 104°. It makes 15 consecutive days where Phoenix has had a new daily high-temperature record.</p><div class="twitter-tweet" style="display: flex; justify-content: center" data-twitt-post-id="1843760340808675575" src="https://twitter.com/NWSPhoenix/status/1843760340808675575"></div><p></p><p>Even as heat alerts end, it will still run well above average across the southwestern U.S.</p><p><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot 2024-10-09 043716-1728470249933.png"></p><p>Temperatures are expected to remain above average before dropping back to seasonable by tomorrow.</p><p><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot 2024-10-09 043743-1728470275700.png"></p><p>For more details on the ongoing heatwave, catch your West Regional Forecast at :50 past every hour.</p>

2+ Weeks of Record Highs in Phoenix, AZ

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<p>Lingering isolated severe storms are possible across the Ohio Valley and Northeast. The severe risk will be isolated overall, but a few strong storms can't be ruled out for the Monday morning commute.</p><p><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/10/PIC 1-1728268099571.jpg"><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/10/PIC 2-1728268107989.jpg">As the cold front passes the Great Lakes it may pick up on some moisture across the region and produce rainfall and storms starting in the afternoon through nightfall.</p><video src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/10/FORECAST-1728268318059.mp4" controls="true" width="100%"></video><p>As this cold front continues moving east, temperatures are expected to drop closer to, and in some cities slightly below, seasonable for many of us for the upcoming weekend. Notice Nashville, going from 90° today to 74° for the start of the work week!</p><p><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/10/PIC 1-1728268355706.jpg"></p>

Patrick Crawford

Fall Fronts Spark Hail and Wind Threat

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Tracey Anthony

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<p>From being the strongest hurricane to make landfall on Florida's Big Bend Region, to causing unprecedented flooding in the Appalachians, Hurricane Helene will go down in History.</p><p>Helene made landfall last Thursday as a Category 4 Hurricane with sustained winds of 140 mph, just 10 miles WSW of Perry, FL. Record storm surge for Cedar Key, FL of over 10ft. The storm was still a category 2 hurricane as it moved into Georgia and continued to lift north on an 800-mile path. The destructive forecast for Helene verified as this tropical system dumped over 30" of rain over the Appalachians. The aftermath was described by the local national weather service office as "the worst event in our office's history."</p><video src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/10/LL_100124_TRT 2.56_WILL TALKS THROUGH DAMAGE IN ERWIN TN_WILL NUNLEY_BH_100124-1727874366194.mp4" controls="true" width="100%"></video><p>The water is receding uncovering washed-out roadways, debris from homes washed off their foundation and some people are still left stranded or unaccounted for. There is an imminent need for supplies and resources. Here are some of the latest updates on the recovery efforts from Government agencies to private citizens using their own personal/private helicopters to bring in food, water, supplies and medicine.</p><div class="twitter-tweet" style="display: flex; justify-content: center" data-twitt-post-id="1841119251010052227" src="https://x.com/NCDOT/status/1841119251010052227"></div><div class="twitter-tweet" style="display: flex; justify-content: center" data-twitt-post-id="1841125041842311573" src="https://x.com/WeatherNation/status/1841125041842311573"></div><p></p><div class="twitter-tweet" style="display: flex; justify-content: center" data-twitt-post-id="1840730819725545643" src="https://x.com/WeatherNation/status/1840730819725545643"></div><div class="fb-post" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/reel/830952819251897" data-width="500" src="https://www.facebook.com/reel/830952819251897" style="display: flex; justify-content: center"></div><p></p><div class="twitter-tweet" style="display: flex; justify-content: center" data-twitt-post-id="1841125088361361896" src="https://x.com/CoryMillsFL/status/1841125088361361896"></div><div class="twitter-tweet" style="display: flex; justify-content: center" data-twitt-post-id="1840801657191334281" src="https://x.com/MyFWC/status/1840801657191334281"></div><p>For more details on the clean-up and recovery efforts on Helene please visit: <br><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.tn.gov/tema.html">https://www.tn.gov/tema.html</a><br><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.ncdps.gov/our-organization/emergency-management/hurricane-helene">https://www.ncdps.gov/our-organization/emergency-management/hurricane-helene</a></p><p></p>

Jesse Kelley

Search, Rescue and Supplies, the Aftermath of Hurricane Helene

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Kevin Schneider

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<p>Roads washed out. Whole towns were destroyed. Two feet of rain. This all occurred across parts of the southern Appalachians as Helene dissipated on Friday.</p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.weathernationtv.com/news/tropical-impacts-in-the-gulf-of-mexico#google_vignette"><strong><u>Related Article: Helene Makes Landfall as a Category 4 Hurricane</u></strong></a></p><p>Water levels remain high in parts of Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, and Virginia. Please seek additional information, preferably from at least two sources, about evacuations, flood warnings, safety messages, and news alerts regarding this actively changing situation. Also, it's important to double-check information. On Friday, incorrect information was given regarding a catastrophic dam failure in Tennessee, when it didn't happen.</p><p><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/09/1-1727549745032.png"></p><p>Storm total rainfall has been as high as 30" across parts of North Carolina. It's important to note, this includes rain before Hurricane Helene arrived. The rainfall listed above is from Wednesday, September 25, and beyond. A separate weather system was already dumping heavy rain in North Carolina and nearby areas well before Helene arrived, which did not help the flooding situation at all.</p><p>Rain will continue to fall through Tuesday across portions of the middle-Atlantic. While Helene moved quickly previously, the storm merged with an upper low, a slower-moving storm system, and has been moving much more sluggishly into central Appalachia through Virginia.</p><p><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot 2024-10-01 071340-1727788502189.png"><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/09/Screenshot 2024-09-30 183749-1727743172557.jpg"></p><p>Most of the rain will not be super heavy but any light to moderate rain in some of these saturated soils of the Appalachians will lead to more flooding!</p><p>For perspective on the severity of this weather event, we look to one river in particular; the French Broad River near Asheville, North Carolina. At this river location, the French Broad reached 30 feet, which surpassed the previous record river level of 20 feet! Flooding is forecast to finally dissipate through the upcoming week.</p><p><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/09/french broad riverr-1727714355743.jpg">We will continue to recap Hurricane Helene and forecast any lingering impacts that may occur from the remnants of the storm this weekend.</p>

Steve Glazier

Flooding Threat Continues as Leftover Helene Spins Towards the East Coast

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Strong winds and heavy snow are producing blizzard-like conditions in Montana. Visibility is near zero in some areas due to significant blowing and drifting snow. The Montana Department of Transportation and several sheriffs offices throughout northern and central Montana are advising emergency travel only due to severe driving conditions and widespread road closures. Montana Disaster and Emergency Services advises if you or someone you know becomes stranded, stay with your vehicle and call 911.

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Conditions have continued to worsen through the day and are not expected to improve until midday Thursday. Wind gusts to 45 mph are producing white out conditions, with drifts closing some roadways shut. Snowfall totals of 3" to 9" are expected in Montana.

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Winter weather alerts extended southward into the high country of Colorado. Up to a foot of new snow is possible in the highest elevations of the Rockies.

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For WeatherNation: Meteorologist Mace Michaels

Dangerous Travel with Strong Winds and Blowing Snow in Montana

Milton Expected to Make Landfall in Florida as a Major Hurricane

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Tropical Update: Leslie Fishes, A Wave North of the Bahamas, Another Wave Near Africa

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Fire Danger Continues for the West

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2+ Weeks of Record Highs in Phoenix, AZ

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Fall Fronts Spark Hail and Wind Threat

Lingering isolated severe storms are possible

Search, Rescue and Supplies, the Aftermath of Hurricane Helene

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Flooding Threat Continues as Leftover Helene Spins Towards the East Coast

Roads washed out. Whole towns were destroyed.