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!

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GREAT LAKES - A large trough has been moving over the northern U.S. since early this week, bringing along with it gusty winds, scattered showers, and cooler temperatures.As the upper-level trough and surface front move over the Great Lakes, they'll continue to usher in cooler air above warmer sea surface temperatures. The contrast between the two can enhance lake-effect showers. It's not quite cold enough for lake-effect snow with this system. These off-and-on showers, which have been dragging over the Great Lakes, will begin to wind down as we head into the weekend. <video src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/10/nerain2-1761336976792.mp4" controls="true" width="100%"></video>With cold temperatures also being ushered in, temperatures tonight will drop into the 30s and 40s from the Great Lakes down to the Carolinas. <img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/10/Screenshot 2025-10-24 141852-1761337221612.png"><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/10/Screenshot 2025-10-24 142002-1761337234549.png">As a result, Frost Advisories and Freeze Warnings have been issued again for Saturday morning. <img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/10/Screenshot 2025-10-24 141435-1761337300431.png">For more details on what the forecast looks like once this low moves out, be sure to join us LIVE on WeatherNation, which streams 24/7.

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Great Lakes Storms, High Plains Winds, and Cooler Air

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As a slow-moving upper-level low approaches from the west, its energy will combine with plentiful moisture, increasing chances for heavy downpours and high rainfall accumulation rates.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/10/Screenshot 2025-10-22 171632-1761175234819.png">At the surface, moisture is pooling along surface fronts and will continue to do so into the weekend. The upper low will provide plenty of lift, creating heavy rainfall due to the ample amount of deep moisture available.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/10/Screenshot 2025-10-24 141213-1761336742678.png"><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/10/Screenshot 2025-10-24 141328-1761336820360.png">The Weather Prediction Center has highlighted portions of Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana today and Saturday with a Level 2 Slight Risk of excessive rainfall. These outlooks will likely be tweaked in the coming days, with an upgrade not out of the question.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/10/Screenshot 2025-10-22 171707-1761175477939.png">This entire area has been unusually dry over the last few weeks. San Antonio, for example, has not recorded any rainfall so far this October. This incoming system will most certainly put an end to that!Check back with Weather Nation for the latest information. You can always get your South-Central regional forecast every 30 past the hour.

Growing Flooding Concern in Texas on Friday and Saturday

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As an upper-level low moves in from the west, it will be encountering growing surface instability. With stronger winds aloft and potential energy for thunderstorm development, a severe risk will be present over the next few days. <img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/10/Screenshot 2025-10-22 150040-1761166845861.png">A majority of the Lone Star State has been highlighted with a risk of severe thunderstorms today, with a Level 2 Slight Risk across West Texas and down into the Big Bend. With upper-level winds overhead increasing shear, a tornado threat will also be present. <img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/10/1-1761274751230.png"><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/10/Screenshot 2025-10-24 140725-1761336453648.png">A severe weather risk, along with the threat of tornadoes, will again be with us on Saturday. <img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/10/Screenshot 2025-10-24 140804-1761336595098.png"><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/10/Screenshot 2025-10-24 140814-1761336607828.png">Below is the latest on the forecast timing for potential severe weather. <video src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/10/stormstx-1761336644264.mp4" controls="true" width="100%"></video>Stay tuned to WeatherNation for the latest updates on the strong storms and potential for flooding. You can always find more details in your Central Regional Forecast :30 past the hour.

Multiple Rounds of Severe Thunderstorms Across Texas

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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>

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All eyes are on the Caribbean as we are now tracking the 13th named storm of the 2025 season - Melissa. In fact, we've been tracking Melissa and it's origins as a tropical wave for more than a week now and we could be watching it for another week still! In the short term, Melissa will hardly move, bringing intense rainfall to Caribbean, especially between Puerto Rico and Jamaica, with over a foot off rain possible for Hispaniola (Haiti &amp; the DR).<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/10/1-1761275117935.png">Melissa's lack of movement is due to its position between two ridges of high pressure in the mid-levels, while in the upper-levels, a trough is still keeping shear high to limit short-term development.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/10/Screenshot 2025-10-23 055544-1761220550936.png">In addition to shear, Melissa is battling some dry air, two factors that often limit tropical development. These factors are expected to lessen in the next few days and Melissa is expected to strengthen into a major hurricane as it sits over the warm waters of the Caribbean this weekend into next week. <img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/10/Screenshot 2025-10-23 052929-1761218989460.png">The latest forecast cone from the National Hurricane Center illustrates the chaos, showing little forward movement over the next few days. Forecast models are starting to come into better agreement about an eventual turn to the north through the Greater Antilles into the eastern Bahamas, likely after a slow drift to the west near Jamaica. It is not out of the question this system could still get pulled toward the east coast of the United States, but that currently looks to be an outlier of a possibility, with less than 5% of ensemble models supporting this chance.<video src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/10/FORECAST-1761319117960.mp4" controls="true" width="100%"></video>Hurricane watches (in pink) and tropical storm warnings have been issued for Jamaica and Haiti. This means that hurricane or tropical storm force conditions are possible within the watch area within 48 hours. The winds are expected to get quite bit stronger through the weekend into next week.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/10/Screenshot 2025-10-24 051559-1761304607950.png">Sea surface temperatures remain warm across the Caribbean, providing ample fuel if the wave can find a pocket of lower shear and increased moisture.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/10/Screenshot 2025-10-23 060209-1761220940859.png">As many of our recently back-loaded tropical seasons have reminded us, October is not the month to let your guard down.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/10/Screenshot 2025-10-15 103336-1760546429287.png">Tune into WeatherNation for the top weather headlines for more on the tropics.

Melissa Meanders in the Caribbean, Expected to be a Major Hurricane

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Ready for another La Niña winter? NOAA quietly released it's outlook for the upcoming winter season on Thursday, sans press conference since the government shutdown continues. The press conference has been rescheduled to November but the outlook is still ready for us to digest. As a reminder, these outlooks are for the overall three month pattern and do not serve to predict seasonal snowfall totals or bursts of cold/warmth that are likely to impact areas highlighted with the seemingly opposite outlook. The National Weather Service released the following video showcasing the newly released outlooks for temperature, precipitation, and drought from December through February.<div class="twitter-tweet" style="display: flex; justify-content: center" data-twitt-post-id="1978839667907744157" src="https://x.com/NWS/status/1978839667907744157"></div><h1>Temperature</h1>Above average temperatures are favored across the southern tier of the United States, while below average temperatures are favored across the Upper-Midwest and Northwest. <img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/10/Screenshot 2025-10-17 065848-1760706897085.png"><h1>Precipitation</h1> As the jetstream is likely to remain more active across the northern tier of the country, allowing for cooler air, it should also allow for more storms to track through these areas. As such, above average precipitation is favored from the Northwest through the Great Lakes, while drier than average conditions are expected from Southern California through Florida and the Carolinas. <img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/10/Screenshot 2025-10-17 065852-1760706026499.png"><h1>Influences</h1>In case you missed it, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.weathernationtv.com/news/la-nina-advisory-issued-how-this-could-affect-the-winter-season">a La Niña Advisory was issued last week</a> as these conditions were observed in the equatorial Pacific west of South America. La Niña is expected to persist through winter, which is one of the primary reasons the winter outlook favors the areas it does. La Niña patterns vary greatly from year to year, depending on the strength of La Niña and the phase of the PDO (Pacific Decadal Oscillation). The graphic below shows the typical pattern of the Pacific and Polar jets during a La Niña winter, which usher in cooler and wet air masses. <img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/10/Screenshot 2025-10-17 065856-1760707324994.png">There is lower confidence that La Niña continues through the late winter and early spring (graphic below), which could throw a wrench in the seasonal forecast. <img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/10/Screenshot 2025-10-17 073303-1760707994646.png">ENSO (El Niño &amp; southern Osciallation) neutral conditions have a less obvious pattern influence, but wetter conditions can develop farther south than during La Niña. What's the takeaway? Be prepared for anything this winter! We'll always keep you up to date on air and online.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/10/Screenshot 2025-10-17 073307-1760708002217.png">

Multiple Rounds of Severe Thunderstorms Across Texas

Melissa Meanders in the Caribbean, Expected to be a Major Hurricane

NOAA Releases Outlook for Winter 25-26'

Great Lakes Storms, High Plains Winds, and Cooler Air

Growing Flooding Concern in Texas on Friday and Saturday

Multiple Rounds of Severe Thunderstorms Across Texas

Melissa Meanders in the Caribbean, Expected to be a Major Hurricane

NOAA Releases Outlook for Winter 25-26'

Great Lakes Storms, High Plains Winds, and Cooler Air

Growing Flooding Concern in Texas on Friday and Saturday

Multiple Rounds of Severe Thunderstorms Across Texas

Melissa Meanders in the Caribbean, Expected to be a Major Hurricane

NOAA Releases Outlook for Winter 25-26'