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>The Upper Midwest has been fairly quiet recently. Naturally, when everyone is trying to travel back home, that trend breaks. A strong trough will kick out a windy area of low-pressure. That could bring some wintry weather back to the Dakotas and into the Great Lakes.</p><h1>Wind</h1><p>A strong system with a lot of wind energy will drive up the wind speeds tonight and into Tuesday. By Tuesday morning, areas around the Black Hills could be talking about wind gusts in the 50-60 mph range! Would it be enough to knock out power? Potentially. With travel starting to ramp up throughout the week, the bigger concern might have to be higher-profile vehicles on plenty of east-west facing interstates.</p><video src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/11/11-24_RNC RNE WINDS-1764025556128.mp4" controls="true" width="100%"></video><h1>Snow</h1><p>Widespread <strong>winter weather alerts</strong> have been issued from Montana to Michigan as this low pressure system drops in. Some models have snowfall totals surpassing a foot into the Upper Midwest, but generally between 3-7" of snow will come down in these regions. However, where <strong>winter storm warnings</strong> (pink) are in effect we can expect 12" of snowfall.</p><p><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/11/Screenshot 2025-11-24 160431-1764025664998.png"></p><p>Since this system is fast-moving, totals across North Dakota and Minnesota are around that half a foot mark, but across the Great Lakes from now through the eve of Thanksgiving, we could see upwards of one foot.</p><p><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/11/Screenshot 2025-11-24 160436-1764025671077.png"></p><h1>Timing</h1><p>Snowfall has started today in Montana and will continue to move east with this system across the northern Plains and Upper Midwest into Tuesday and Wednesday. Eventually, this moisture will work into the Northeast.</p><video src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/11/11-24_rnc bams3k-1764025757405.mp4" controls="true" width="100%"></video><h1>Temperatures</h1><p>Expect a significant cool down. Low temperatures take a dive into the teens and single digits by Thanksgiving morning.</p><p><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/11/Screenshot 2025-11-24 160935-1764025783153.png"></p><p>For more details, tune in to your Central Regional Forecast :30 past the hour.</p>

Windy System Blows Through Upper Midwest This Week

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Kevin Schneider

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<p>It is that time of year again—when millions of Americans hit the road or the skies to connect with friends and family. AAA is expecting a record number of travelers this year, surpassing the record-breaking 2024. Most travelers will be hitting the road vs flying.</p><p></p><div data-youtube-video=""><iframe width="640" height="480" allowfullscreen="false" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/o78PUXSJCJU" start="0"></iframe></div><p></p><p><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/11/Screenshot 2025-11-17 104347-1763401813998.png"></p><p>With millions hitting the roads, traffic will be hard to avoid, no matter where you are heading. However, there will be some better times to do your traveling. AAA suggests starting the journey early, but with a reasonable night of sleep the night prior.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/11/Screenshot 2025-11-17 105052-1763401888415.png"></p><p>With so many traveling over the holidays, there are some favored destinations. Besides New York City, the other nine top destinations favor warm weather in late November.</p><p><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/11/Screenshot 2025-11-17 110215-1763402544204.png">How does this compare to previous years? With more than 6 million people expected to fly, that's a 2% increase compared to last year, but it's a more than 10% jump compared to pre-pandemic levels!</p><p><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/11/Screenshot 2025-11-17 105653-1763402231681.png"></p>

Tracey Anthony

A Record Breaking Thanksgiving Travel Week Expected

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Taban Sharifi grew up in Southern California between Los Angeles and San Diego. She is a Certified Broadcast Meteorologist (CBM) with the American Meteorological Society (AMS). She has a B.S. in Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Environmental Sciences with a minor in Environmental Systems and Society from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Go Bruins! While in school, Taban was a meteorology intern with NBC LA. There she helped forecast daily weather for the greater Los Angeles region and created a playbook to deploy weather sensors for NBC owned-and-operated stations across the country. Her first on-air job took her to San Angelo, Texas, where she was a morning meteorologist and co-anchor. Working in West Texas gave her knowledge and experience covering severe storms. From there, she moved to Palm Springs, California. People think forecasting in California is sunshine all the time, but with temperatures in the 120’s, wildfires, damaging winds, floodings, and earthquakes, the forecasting kept her very busy! She also worked there as a general assignment reporter and told community stories. Taban is excited for the challenge and opportunity to forecast nationally with WeatherNation. She also looks forward to exploring all that Colorado has to offer!

Taban Sharifi

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<p>Severe weather is in the forecast for the South, from Texas through Georgia. The Storm Prediction Center has issued severe weather outlooks as a frontal boundary swiftly moves through.</p><h2>Monday</h2><p>The severe weather threat continues to push east along the cold front today. Areas from northern Mississippi to central Texas will see the chance for severe weather. There has been an upgrade to Monday's severe risk. We are now looking at a <strong>Slight </strong>risk of severe storms from southern Arkansas to Austin, Texas. This means scattered severe storms will be likely in the forecast for the yellow-highlighted area.</p><p><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/11/Screenshot 2025-11-24 110321-1764007409116.png"></p><p>The forecast also calls for the formation of supercells, which in turn could lead to an isolated tornado risk. The SPC has highlighted the slightly higher risk in the brown coloring. If your city falls under this outlook, make sure you have some way to get weather alerts in case a tornado touches down.</p><p><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/11/Screenshot 2025-11-24 110340-1764007425941.png"></p><h2>Tuesday</h2><p>The threat moves east on Tuesday to include more of the South. Isolated severe storms are likely to develop across portions of the southeast and Deep south. The SPC has issued a <strong>SLIGHT </strong>(level 2 out of 5) risk for Mississippi and Alabama.</p><p><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/11/Screenshot 2025-11-24 111109-1764007875043.png"></p><h2>Storm Timing</h2><video src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/11/11-24_rsc rse bnams-1764007998143.mp4" controls="true" width="100%"></video><h2>Rainfall</h2><p>A Flood Watch is in effect through Monday for portions of Texas.</p><p><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/11/Screenshot 2025-11-23 151955-1763936403934.png">Watch for pockets of heavy rain that could lead to flooding. The Weather Prediction Center (WPC) has a <strong>Marginal</strong> to <strong>Slight</strong> risk for flooding through Tuesday.</p><p><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/11/Web1-1763985104994.png"></p>

Severe Weather Slides Through the South

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<p>As the most recent windy system moves northeast, we wait on our next. Unfortunately, it looks like it might move through around a time that could complicate holiday plans.</p><p><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/11/Screenshot 2025-11-23 112422-1763922444302.png">As this system <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.weathernationtv.com/news/windy-system-blows-through-upper-midwest-this-week"><strong>spins it's way into the Great Lakes</strong></a>, widespread rain will build by Tuesday into Wednesday. If you're holding a balloon in the parade, the winds are what concern you. It doesn't look like it will be windy enough to affect much of the parade, but balloons might have to be lowered to help offset winds funneling between buildings.</p><video src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/11/2025-11-24 04-32-44-1763984002951.mp4" controls="true" width="100%"></video><p>All of this to say - Thanksgiving parades are probably alright in the northeast. Unless they're in the western New York area. Those winds will be breezy at times, but the direction is most important! A westerly wind will carry warmer air temperatures from the lake waters into much cooler air temperatures behind all of this. The result? Thanksgiving Lake Effect Snow! Impressive bands have been noted on some longer-range models around Erie and Buffalo.</p><p><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/11/Screenshot 2025-11-23 113329-1763922919015.png"></p><p></p>

Adrian Hernandez

More Moisture For The Northeast This Week

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<p style="margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: #454545;">Rob grew up in South Florida, where daily afternoon storms and hurricanes piqued his interest in meteorology early on. That interest was fostered by his teachers and his father, who one time brought him onto the roof of their home to watch a funnel cloud move through the Everglades several miles away. Years of filmmaking and tv production in high school gradually pushed him toward broadcast meteorology at Florida State University, where he joined and eventually led the student run daily weather show. After graduating with a Bachelors of Science in Meteorology, he began his career at KESQ in Palm Springs, California before heading to KFSN in Fresno and WLOS in Asheville, North Carolina. He has covered a diverse array of extreme weather events, including haboobs and flash flooding in the desert, extreme snow in the Sierra, hurricanes, and Appalachian ice storms. He also enjoys telling stories and reporting about weather issues.

Connect with Rob on <a href="https://twitter.com/WxRobBradley">Twitter</a></span></p>

Rob Bradley

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<p><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13)">Hurricane Melissa was a devastating category 5 storm that made landfall in Jamaica as one of the strongest systems on record in the Atlantic Basin.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13)">A dropsonde recorded a wind gust of 252 mph shortly before landfall, which was verified this week by NSF NCAR (U.S. National Science Foundation National Center for Atmospheric Research) to be accurate, making it the strongest gust ever recorded in a tropical cyclone.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13)">WeatherNation Meteorologist Rob Bradley discusses the data and Melissa's intense winds with hurricane researcher Andy Hazelton, who was working the data position on the reconnaissance flight that recorded the record gust.</span></p><div data-youtube-video=""><iframe width="640" height="480" allowfullscreen="false" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/n8DyYwpvi0w" start="0"></iframe></div><p>What are meso-vortices? These are smaller scale circulations in the atmosphere that are essentially miniature low pressure systems. These can be observed within clusters of thunderstorms, but they also appear within the eye and eye wall of intense hurricanes. Melissa produced some of the most visually stunning meso-vortices in the satellite era (below).</p><div class="twitter-tweet" style="display: flex; justify-content: center" data-twitt-post-id="1983738129581301844" src="https://x.com/WeatherNation/status/1983738129581301844"></div>

Severe Weather Slides Through the South

More Moisture For The Northeast This Week

Hurricane Melissa Produces Strongest Gust Recorded in a Hurricane

Windy System Blows Through Upper Midwest This Week

A Record Breaking Thanksgiving Travel Week Expected

Severe Weather Slides Through the South

More Moisture For The Northeast This Week

Hurricane Melissa Produces Strongest Gust Recorded in a Hurricane

Windy System Blows Through Upper Midwest This Week

A Record Breaking Thanksgiving Travel Week Expected

Severe Weather Slides Through the South

More Moisture For The Northeast This Week

Hurricane Melissa Produces Strongest Gust Recorded in a Hurricane