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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While it has now been about a week since a major ice storm swept across the southern tier of the country, over a hundred thousand customers remain without power, the majority across Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee. While temperatures warmed some, it's been a cold week for people to be without power and even colder air is settling in for the weekend, creating dangerous conditions for those without heat.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2026/02/web-1770027761773.png"><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2026/02/Web1-1770027783823.png">Cold alerts remain in places like Nashville through Monday morning. Make sure you're taking care of your pets, neighbors, plants, and exposed plumbing!<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2026/02/Web1-1770028375483.png">Temperatures across the southeast will still be on the chilly side tonight. We're watching for any refreezing after some snow melts during the day. It's important to keep this in mind, and factor it into your travel plans.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2026/02/Web2-1770028570321.png">Low temperatures will begin to rebound, more noticeably, by midweek.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2026/02/web-1770028896090.png">Will continue to update this story on Weather Nation, including your Southeast Regional Forecast, every 10 past the hour.

Adrian Hernandez

Cold Alerts, Customers Remain Without Power

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Record high temperatures were shattered to start February in California. Escondido, in Southern California, hit 92°. Another ridge of high pressure builds in midweek, bringing another round of record high potential.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2026/02/Screenshot 2026-02-01 200638-1770001608331.png">All the red dots indicate cities that could break their record high temperature for Wednesday and Thursday.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2026/02/Web3-1770027607245.png">Cities like Los Angeles have average highs this time of the year in the 60s. Instead, high temperatures could hit 90° by Wednesday.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2026/02/Web1-1770027521432.png">Farther north, temperatures will also be around 10° above average.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2026/02/Web2-1770027553932.png">This warmth out west is not expected to go anywhere. The longer range temperature outlook shows a higher confidence of warmer than normal temperatures sticking around through February 11th.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2026/02/Screenshot 2026-02-01 200938-1770001814610.png">

Feeling More Like Summer Out West

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Kevin Schneider

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Snow has started piling up around portions of the Southeast. We have a little more snow to go as a strong coastal low deepens offshore and heads north to end the weekend.<div class="twitter-tweet" style="display: flex; justify-content: center" data-twitt-post-id="2017796406862614965" src="https://x.com/WeatherNation/status/2017796406862614965?s=20"></div>Some locations in the Carolinas have seen historic snow totals, comparable with some of the heaviest snows in recent history. In addition to heavy snow, this low is expected to bring strong winds to the East Coast, coastal flooding, and it will drag arctic air all the way to South Florida.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2026/02/Screenshot 2026-02-01 105502-1769968516931.png">Totals in some North Carolina cities exceeded 20"!<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2026/02/Screenshot 2026-02-01 160422-1769987074148.png">Sunshine's helping start the melting process, but by tonight, anything that melts will refreeze, leaving slick roads for the Monday morning commute. Winter Advisories remain in place for dangerous driving conditions through Monday.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2026/02/Screenshot 2026-02-01 195204-1770000729195.png">Temperatures will climb into the 40's by the middle of the week, which should help get any of the leftover snow to clear out. Another chance of rain/snow moves into the forecast by Wednesday, but doesn't appear to be quite this threatening.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2026/02/Screenshot 2026-02-01 160400-1769987044338.png">

Historic Snow Leaves Slick Roads into Monday

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You've been warned, iguanas. We've had glancing blows of cold weather recently, stunning a few cold-blooded reptiles. This one's going to be more widespread and could even bring the threat of snow as far south as Tampa.<div data-youtube-video=""><iframe width="640" height="480" allowfullscreen="false" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IusUvOmydJc" start="0"></iframe></div><h1>COLD</h1>A developing low-pressure will cutted across the Gulf Friday. This system did bring some impressive snow to the Carolinas before moving up the coast. That system will leave the door WIDE OPEN behind it, letting the Arctic air flow much farther south than it has been recently. Overnight lows in the 30's will make it as far south as Miami, where they haven't seen the 30's for more than a decade!<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2026/01/Screenshot 2026-01-28 101841-1769620728751.png">Even areas like the Tampa area will slip into the freezer by Sunday morning. That's where things might get interesting...<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2026/02/web1-1769944569000.png"><h1>GULF-EFFECT SNOW</h1>We've started shutting down the lake-effect machine a little bit--it's been that cold recently. Great Lake ice coverage has rocketed way above average for the time of year. Let's find another body of water. The Gulf won't freeze over!<div class="twitter-tweet" style="display: flex; justify-content: center" data-twitt-post-id="2016346284802629827" src="https://x.com/NWSWPC/status/2016346284802629827?s=20"></div>For any sort of "-effect" to happen (rain or snow) there just needs to be a sizable difference in temperatures. Some lesser-known include ocean-effect snow that can sometimes affect places like Nantucket, MA. This is similar, where cold, Arctic air will flow over warmer waters of the Gulf around the Big Bend this weekend.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2026/01/Screenshot 2026-01-28 102535-1769621144325.png">The difference in temperatures will drive persistent showers onshore into Sunday. The thinking is that temperatures could catch up to the showers, turning the rain over to snow. This won't be a long-lived setup, so is expected to be more novelty than anything. It's still wild that Florida could pick up snow twice in the same Winter, though! For the record, the last time Tampa picked up measurable snow was January 19, 1977.<video src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2026/02/2026-02-01 06-16-37-1769944619717.mp4" controls="true" width="100%"></video>

Gulf-Effect Snow Possible This Weekend

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More precipitation is in the forecast across the Pacific Northwest. Conditions have not been as active to start the weekend, but another cold front is on the way for early Sunday morning. The highest totals look to target the Olympic Peninsula again and into the foothills of the Cascades. A few inches of rain will be possible over the next several days, along with snow in the higher elevations. Localized totals may end up measuring up to a foot in the northern Cascades.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2026/01/1-1769915849541.png">Over the next few days, the forecast calls for waves of moisture off and on, producing rain and snow showers.<video src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2026/01/New Baron Video 3-1769916147523.mp4" controls="true" width="100%"></video>More details on your Western Regional Forecast can be found :50 past the hour, every hour, on WeatherNation.

Historic Snow Leaves Slick Roads into Monday

Gulf-Effect Snow Possible This Weekend

Rain Finally Makes a Return to the Northwest

Cold Alerts, Customers Remain Without Power

Feeling More Like Summer Out West

Historic Snow Leaves Slick Roads into Monday

Gulf-Effect Snow Possible This Weekend

Rain Finally Makes a Return to the Northwest

Cold Alerts, Customers Remain Without Power

Feeling More Like Summer Out West

Historic Snow Leaves Slick Roads into Monday

Gulf-Effect Snow Possible This Weekend

Rain Finally Makes a Return to the Northwest