WeatherNation Meteorologists

headshotspng-1676305264677.png

<div class="twitter-tweet" style="display: flex; justify-content: center" data-twitt-post-id="1983218217351774500" src="https://x.com/NHC_Atlantic/status/1983218217351774500"></div><h3>KEY MESSAGES: Melissa has made landfall near New Hope, Jamaica as a Category 5, the 3rd strongest Hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Basin with a central pressure dropping to 892mb. Maximum sustained winds are estimated at 185 mph.</h3><ul><li>Catastrophic and life-threatening flash flooding with numerous landslides for Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba</li><li>Destructive, devastating winds for Jamaica with the potential to cause structural failure</li><li>Life-threatening storm surge and damaging waves for Jamaica, Cuba, the Southeast Bahamas, and Turks and Caicos</li><li>Hurricane preparations for the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos should be complete by Tuesday night</li></ul><div class="twitter-tweet" style="display: flex; justify-content: center" data-twitt-post-id="1983196616640299223" src="https://x.com/WeatherNation/status/1983196616640299223"></div>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 its origins as a tropical wave for more than a week now, and we could be watching it for another week still! Melissa has rapidly intensified into a Category 5 hurricane, with sustained winds of 185 mph, a pressure of 892 mb, and is&nbsp;slowly moving NNE at 9 mph.<div class="twitter-tweet" style="display: flex; justify-content: center" data-twitt-post-id="1983195190656676007" src="https://x.com/iCyclone/status/1983195190656676007"></div>For the second day in a row, the powerful winds in Melissa caused such severe turbulence that the Hurricane Hunters were forced to leave the storm early.<div class="twitter-tweet" style="display: flex; justify-content: center" data-twitt-post-id="1983192472764461336" src="https://x.com/53rdWRS/status/1983192472764461336"></div>Melissa is gradually picking up speed, but after moving extremely slow since this system formed last week, catastrophic and life-threatening rainfall and mudslides to Jamaica and Cuba are inevitable. Storm totals will be in feet, with up to 12" of rain still expected in Jamaica or more.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/10/Web 9-1761661656636.png">The strength of Melissa's inner core will be impacted by the mountainous terrain of Jamaica, allowing for some weakening of the storm. However, it is still expected to hit eastern Cuba as a major hurricane and move through the Bahamas as a Category 2. Melissa made landfall near New Hope, Jamaica, on Tuesday morning and is one of the most powerful landfalls on record in the Atlantic. It is expected to make landfall again across southeastern Cuba Tuesday night, and across the southeastern Bahamas on Wednesday, according to the NHC.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/10/MELLAA-1761674329847.png">The National Hurricane Center has relayed some intense key messages for Hurricane Melissa, warning of life-threatening and catastrophic flash flooding and landslides in Jamaica and southern Hispaniola through mid-week.<div class="twitter-tweet" style="display: flex; justify-content: center" data-twitt-post-id="1983195568467062850" src="https://x.com/NHC_Atlantic/status/1983195568467062850"></div>Hurricane warnings (in red) have been issued for Cuba, Jamaica, and the Bahamas, with a few tropical storm warnings (in orange) also in effect for portions of Haiti, Cuba, and the Turks and Caicos. All preparations to protect life and property in these areas should be rushed to completion.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/10/Screenshot 2025-10-28 090849-1761664145356.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">Tune into WeatherNation for the top weather headlines for more on the tropics.

Jackie Brown

History in Real Time: CAT 5 Melissa Makes Landfall in Jamaica

Screenshot20251028110738png-1761671372168.png

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

AlanaCameronjpeg-1679518648021.jpeg

WEST - A series of atmospheric rivers has been responsible for wet, windy, and snowy weather in the northwestern U.S. This moisture continues to push inland through Monday. Another front has been moving onshore and will continue through Tuesday, but will mostly be focused on the state of Washington.<video src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/10/2025-10-28 08-37-50-1761662299072.mp4" controls="true" width="100%"></video>Snowfall and rainfall totals will not be as heavy as they were this past weekend and into the early work week, but some areas should look for impacts as you head out on the roads.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/10/Web1-1761647032153.png">Another potential atmospheric river could bring wet weather for our weekend, so be sure to join on WeatherNation for the latest. There are still some uncertainty on this next weekend wave that we need to consider but we do know that it will be moving in on Friday, and bringing with it gusty winds and heavy rain. <img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/10/Screenshot 2025-10-27 160312-1761602766804.png"><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/10/Web 12-1761662438764.png">Be sure to join us at:50 past the hour for more details during your west regional forecast.

Tracey Anthony

Northwest Parade of Systems

ezgif7a09cacd1359a6gif-1761520269611.gif

Adrian Hernandez

thumbnail_AdrianWeatherNationjpg-1756412205956.jpeg

Whenever we have high pressure systems out in the west coast, the possibility of a Santa Ana winds setup becomes likely.<video src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/10/2025-10-28 04-47-51-1761648488737.mp4" controls="true" width="100%"></video> During this phenomenon, winds head westward due to high pressures' clockwise motion. These winds will pass over the dry, desert region of the southwest and head west through the mountain passages in Southern California. During their descent, the air compresses, causing their temperatures to rise.<video src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/10/2025-10-28 04-53-29-1761648822406.mp4" controls="true" width="100%"></video><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/10/Web1-1761648886403.png">These winds are expected to bring well above-average temperatures for Southern California. In some spots, we can expect temperatures that are close to 15 degrees above average. This puts several cities in the high 80s in late October!<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/10/Web2-1761649017325.png">As a result, the National Weather Service has issued multiple heat advisories and red flag warnings across LA county and the surrounding areas.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/10/Web1-1761649090884.png"><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/10/Web7-1761649119633.png">This heat will also come with the potential to break some records. Some of these forecast temperatures have Long Beach feeling like summer when most people are sharpening their skis to hit the slopes!<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/10/Web2-1761649222971.png">Stay tuned to WeatherNation where we'll keep tracking these temperatures in Southern Cali throughout this week.

Santa Ana Setup Bringing the Heat into Southern California

20251028045329gif-1761649899082.gif

As our first low-pressure system bringing rain to the northeast exits, another area of low pressure will trek across the country, bringing in winds, cooler air, and rainfall.<video src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/10/2025-10-28 08-49-27-1761662987772.mp4" controls="true" width="100%"></video>There are already excessive rainfall outlooks for portions of the Mid-South and the Northeast.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/10/Web6-1761646432554.png">Although this system moves through the Plains first, the heaviest totals are likely to occur as we start to tap into more Gulf and Atlantic moisture. Forecast models bring the heaviest rainfall into portions of Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina before moving into portions of New England on Thursday.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/10/Web7-1761646473123.png">Be sure to join of live on WeatherNation for more details!

Next Round of Rain for the Plains, Midwest, and Northeast

Web7png-1761646788903.png

Tracey2jpeg-1737574224773.jpeg

Slow-moving train thunderstorms produced extreme rainfall across portions of Central Florida on Sunday, triggering a flash-flood emergency in Lake County. The area recorded nearly 18" of rain in under 5 hours.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/10/Screenshot 2025-10-27 155504-1761602110229.png"><video src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/10/2025-10-27 09-47-59-1761573805964.mp4" controls="true" width="100%"></video>A few other spots along Florida's east coast experienced the heavy downpours, even breaking daily records.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/10/Web 2-1761573435765.png">A stalled-out front was the culprit of the training showers. Winds were also clocked at up to 60 mph.<video src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/10/2025-10-27 09-48-34-1761573835838.mp4" controls="true" width="100%"></video>Another round of showers and storms is possible as the cold front associated with this system works through.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/10/Web5-1761646352045.png">

Flash Flood Emergency Triggered Sunday in Florida

Screenshot20251027201844png-1761617928381.png

Kevin Schneider

A021DDE71AA34C50BB5468289EA6B1D7jpeg-1699372868991.jpeg

I will never forget the time it snowed in southwest Missouri on Halloween. Going from house to house for as long as we could stand it before piling back in the car because we were so cold. It doesn't snow that early in Springfield, or any other part of the country for that matter this early into Fall. <img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/10/Screenshot 2025-10-27 111421-1761585271271.png">So let's see if Mother Nature is feeling in the mood to traumatize more youth this upcoming weekend. <h1>TROUBLE SPOTS</h1><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/10/Screenshot 2025-10-27 111540-1761585429674.png">"Trouble" means a lot of different things for people on Halloween. Trouble, to us, is going to mean rain. Not much worse than spending all of that time and energy into a costume just to get rained on. While you might see some rain icons in the forecast in the northeast, there's a strong possibility we kick the rain out by the afternoon/evening, when it matters. We're more concerned with the Northwest like Seattle, where the rain might be both consistent and heavy at times. Coldest spot might be in the Upper Midwest, but any lingering cloud cover should help keep temps from freezing<h1>PICK OF THE NATION</h1><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/10/Screenshot 2025-10-27 111630-1761585733352.png">When. Do we ever. See 3 straight days of a rain-free forecast in SOUTH FLORIDA?? We have to go with Miami for that reason. But if you came up short in this madeup competition, take some solace that most everybody is looking good to go this far in advance, which is a great sign.

FORECAST: Halloween Night Shaping Up Okay For Many

Screenshot20251027111140png-1761585104725.png

GAUTIER, MS - Earlier Sunday morning, tornado warnings swept through the Gulf Coast, and this person was caught in the debris of the tornado in Mississippi. The severe threat continues through tonight across the Gulf Coast as this frontal boundary keeps moving through.<div class="twitter-tweet" style="display: flex; justify-content: center" data-twitt-post-id="1982498399602786785" src="https://x.com/WeatherNation/status/1982498399602786785"></div>According to the National Weather Service in New Orleans, a survey team will be heading out on Monday morning to survey the damage that Sunday morning's storms brought. The NWS has also encouraged anyone in the region to send over their reports to help with their surveys as well.<div class="twitter-tweet" style="display: flex; justify-content: center" data-twitt-post-id="1982508518684209425" src="https://x.com/NWSNewOrleans/status/1982508518684209425"></div><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/10/Screenshot 2025-10-26 163627-1761518716166.png">Most of the storms from Sunday sat along a warm front and remained as supercells. Through the overnight hours, storms are expected to cluster together, lessening the tornado threat but maintaining the wind, hail, and heavy rain threat into Florida.<video src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/10/10-26 east-1761531893312.mp4" controls="true" width="100%"></video>Heavy rain is also going to be a concern along the system, and with another batch of rain moving in by late Tuesday, the flood threat will continue into the work week as well.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/10/Screenshot 2025-10-26 202400-1761531846617.png">For more details on how this rain may influence your forecast temperatures, be sure to join us at :10 past the hour, where we detail your east regional forecast.

Mississippi Tornado Caught on Camera

ezgif7cb83ac1944ca31gif-1761519034760.gif

https://twitter.com/NWSWPC/status/1041074511091851265

Tropical Storm (formerly Hurricane) Florence has battered North Carolina with damaging winds and flooding storm surge since Thursday.  Heavy rainfall continues to be the major concern, however.  River levels are incredibly high in some parts of the Tar Heel State, flooding many communities.  It should come as no surprise, either.  Rainfall totals have exceeded two feet in some cases.

https://twitter.com/NWSMoreheadCity/status/1041014350297919488

In the days before the storm made landfall, Florence was forecast to bring potentially record-breaking rainfall.

https://twitter.com/WeatherNation/status/1039974922959953923

Florence delivered, unfortunately.  By Saturday morning, several North Carolina communities witnessed rain totals that were greater than the state tropical rainfall record.  Until Florence, the record for tropical rainfall was 24.06 inches.  This occurred during Hurricane Floyd in 1999.

<img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-97094" src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2018/09/NC-728x408.jpg" alt="" width="728" height="408" />

In neighboring South Carolina, rainfall totals were nearing ten inches by midday Saturday.  The record for tropical rainfall in South Carolina is 18.51 inches.  This occurred during Tropical Storm Jerry in 1995.

<img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-97093" src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2018/09/SC-728x408.jpg" alt="" width="728" height="408" />

With the slow movement of Florence, final rainfall totals will likely be higher.  Follow WeatherNation on social media (<a href="http://www.facebook.com/WeatherNation">Facebook</a> and <a href="http://www.twitter.com/WeatherNation">Twitter</a>) for the latest updates.

- <a href="http://www.facebook.com/MeteorologistJoeAstolfi">Meteorologist Joe Astolfi</a>

State Rainfall Record Shattered

History in Real Time: CAT 5 Melissa Makes Landfall in Jamaica

KEY MESSAGES: Melissa has made landfall near

Northwest Parade of Systems

WEST - A series of atmospheric rivers has bee

Santa Ana Setup Bringing the Heat into Southern California

Whenever we have high pressure systems out in

Next Round of Rain for the Plains, Midwest, and Northeast

As our first low-pressure system bringing rai

Flash Flood Emergency Triggered Sunday in Florida

Slow-moving train thunderstorms produced extr

FORECAST: Halloween Night Shaping Up Okay For Many

I will never forget the time it snowed in sou

Mississippi Tornado Caught on Camera

GAUTIER, MS - Earlier Sunday morning, tornado