Dave Holder

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PHOENIX, AZ - As of Monday, Phoenix has experienced 3 straight weeks of record-breaking temperatures! Phoenix's high temperature rose to 103° on Monday, which breaks the previous record of 100°. This makes it 21 consecutive days that Phoenix has had a new daily high-temperature record!<h2><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/10/Phoenix Calendar-1728906770712.jpg">Southwest</h2>A late-week trough will be responsible for bringing a halt to record-high temperatures. This trough will bring much cooler temperatures to the southwest and for the first time in months - below average temperatures are possible this weekend!<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot 2024-10-14 184153-1728952921289.png">In Phoenix, the chance for record-breaking highs should end tomorrow. We will remain above average until the latter half of the work week when temperatures are forecast to drop below 80° for the first time since April 14th - that's 183 days of above 80° highs!<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot 2024-10-14 130423-1728933321653.jpg">In Las Vegas, highs will cool as low as the 60s this weekend. The last time we were this cool was also back in April!<h2><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot 2024-10-14 130439-1728932982713.jpg">Southern Plains</h2>The chance for record highs will continue Tuesday for portions of Texas after numerous records fell again on Monday.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot 2024-10-14 202958-1728959410357.png"><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot 2024-10-14 162310-1728944600807.png">Changes are brewing for the south-central U.S. too. Oklahoma City and Dallas will drop below average as early as Wednesday! Even Houston will drop our 90-degree highs and replace them with 70s. Did someone say sweater weather?<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot 2024-10-14 162342-1728944626821.png">After a painfully hot stretch in cities like Austin, temperatures are forecast to drop down into the 70s by mid-week. Fall is here friends!<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot 2024-10-14 130512-1728933118250.jpg">For more details on the ongoing heatwave, tune into WeatherNation!

End Is in Sight for Record Breaking Heat

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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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LAKE PLACID, NY - The Adirondacks have seen their first snowfall of the season on Monday! Most of these flurries have been melting upon contact, but, according to the National Weather Service in Burlington, VT, snow levels for the Adirondacks have come down to about 1800 feet with a few reports of 1-2" over elevated and grassy surfaces.<div class="twitter-tweet" style="display: flex; justify-content: center" data-twitt-post-id="1845826909281947839" src="https://x.com/WeatherNation/status/1845826909281947839"></div>Monday's gloomy skies and intermittent rain will be tough to shake, along with the cooler weather behind. Rainfall totals have climbed up to nearly 2" in upstate New York.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/10/Rain reports-1728907052119.jpg">The Storm Prediction Center has issued "general" thunderstorm outlooks for the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley through Tuesday with some of the remnants of this system pushing through.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot 2024-10-14 201117-1728958285751.jpg">Precipitation coming off of the Great Lakes will keep us active. You can expect scattered showers and storms as an upper-level trough pushes through. The warm temperatures of the Great Lakes and cold air aloft will be responsible for some lightning strikes with lake-effect showers.<video src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/10/10-14_rne 18z-1728958341974.mp4" controls="true" width="100%"></video>With cold enough air over land, higher elevations have already seen a few snow flurries due to lake effect precipitation and another inch or two is still possible. <img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot 2024-10-14 201246-1728958379381.jpg">For more details on the ongoing heatwave, catch your East Regional Forecast at :10 past every hour.

Lake Effect Precipitation - Some See First Snow!

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Frost and Freeze Alerts have been issued across the central and eastern United States. Typically frost and freeze alerts get issued to denote the end of the growing season and are often not reissued post-harvest.An upper-level low was the catalyst for cooler temperatures, but behind this low, an upper-level high has pushed in to keep overnight lows chilly. This process is referred to as radiational cooling. With the lack of cloud coverage overnight, surface temperatures cool off much more quickly. Think of the clouds like a blanket at night, without cloud coverage, it gets cooler.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot 2024-10-14 183422-1728952500377.jpg">Areas like Nashville will be dropping into the 30s on Wednesday AM!<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot 2024-10-14 183432-1728952518064.jpg">The potential for a frost and freeze continues for the Northeast into the latter half of the work week too.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot 2024-10-14 183438-1728952803766.jpg">Some spots could potentially break record lows on Thursday including cities such as Asheville, NC.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot 2024-10-14 183448-1728958420121.jpg">For more details on this week's cooldown, catch your East Regional Forecast at :10 past every hour &amp; your Central Regional Forecast at:30 past every hour.

Widespread Frost Alerts To End Growing Season

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WeatherNation Meteorologists

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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.<h1>Atlantic Ocean</h1><h2>Disturbance 1 - Invest 94L</h2>A tropical wave has struggled to become better organized near the west coast of Africa. This still has a small window to become a depression as it moves through the Cabo Verde Islands, but harsh conditions are expected to weaken the system as it moves farther west. It's not out of the question that this wave could get organized again as it gets closer to the Caribbean toward the end of next week. Despite these conditions, the tropical outlook has increased to a medium (60%) chance of tropical development.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot 2024-10-14 183107-1728952300454.jpg">Forecast models keep Invest 94-L on a westward trajectory, approaching the Caribbean next Thursday/Friday.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot 2024-10-14 183152-1728952322535.jpg">Forecast models are picking up on this potential development closer to the Caribbean. Here's what the GFS (American) model is projecting later this week. Remember, that this is ONE deterministic model and is subject to change.<video src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/10/10-14_GFS LATER CARIB-1728952370939.mp4" controls="true" width="100%"></video><h2>Disturbance 2 - Western Caribbean</h2>The National Hurricane Center is monitoring another area in the western Caribbean. Some development is possible if it stays over water later this week. This looks like it will affect mostly Central America.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot 2024-10-14 183307-1728952398728.jpg"><h1>Looking Ahead</h1>The Climate Prediction Center has released their 2-week and 3-week tropical outlooks for the Atlantic and Pacific, and currently, there is low confidence in any tropical formation. But know that the weather is always changing and we'll be here to bring you the latest information on what's brewing in the tropics.<video src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/10/10-09_cpc tropical stuff-1728498159196.mp4" controls="true" width="100%"></video>Hurricane season officially ends Saturday, November 30th, which means there are only 47 days until hurricane season is over.

What's Brewing In The Atlantic?

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Kevin Schneider

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CAPE CANAVERAL - NASA's Europa mission began on Monday, shortly after 12:00 PM ET. They couldn't have drawn up any better weather for a launch, with temperatures in the upper 70's and hardly a cloud in the sky.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/10/liftoff temps-1728924781355.jpg">As a matter of fact, you could see the launch from GOES East, the satellite we use to monitor the weather from space! Look carefully and you can pick out when the rocket took off from Cape Canaveral. It's easier if you look at the water vapor channel:<video src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/10/2024-10-14 10-32-35-1728924869980.mp4" controls="true" width="100%"></video><div class="twitter-tweet" style="display: flex; justify-content: center" data-twitt-post-id="1845859399178264640" src="https://x.com/NASA/status/1845859399178264640"></div>The purpose of the mission is to investigate whether or not the moon of Jupiter, Europa, contains water. The spacecraft will travel almost 2 billion miles to reach Jupiter in April of 2030. After that, it will fly by the moon Europa. For more information about the launch, visit NASA's page on the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://science.nasa.gov/mission/europa-clipper/">Europa Clipper</a>.

NASA's Europa Clipper Mission Lifts Off Monday Successfully

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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>

Rob Bradley

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It has been an incredible year for space phenomena! <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.weathernationtv.com/news/eclipse-2024">The Eclipse</a> captured the country's interest in April before two incredible displays of the Aurora Borealis down to Southern Latitudes in both <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.weathernationtv.com/news/aurora-borealis-stuns-Friday-Night">May</a> and <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.weathernationtv.com/news/northern-lights-put-on-dazzling-show-thursday-night">October</a>. Now, stargazers and astronomy lovers could be treated to one of the best comets of the decade through late October. <img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot 2024-10-12 125001-1728759013410.png">Comet C / 2023 (A3), also known as Comet <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://blogs.nasa.gov/Watch_the_Skies/2024/10/02/ancient-oort-cloud-comet-to-make-first-documented-pass-by-earth-in-mid-october/">Tsuchinshan-ATLAS,</a> last passed the earth about 80,000 years ago, but was only discovered last year! This Oort cloud comet has been gracing the morning skies in the Southern Hemisphere over the last few weeks as it approached and moved around the sun. The comet is now passing Earth at its closest distance in its current orbit and is now expected to move away and slowly fade from view. Because of this movement away from Earth, seeing the comet earlier in the month will likely provide the best viewing conditions!<h1>How to See the Comet</h1><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/10/Comet-C-2023-A3-Map-ST-version-1728759033662.jpg">Timing for this event will be important, as the comet will only be visible for a short time in the evening before it dips below the horizon, especially earlier in the month. For the first few nights of viewing, the comet will appear low on the western horizon to the right of Venus (by about two fists held at arm's length). Be sure to be ready around sunset with a clear western horizon and something to be able to zoom in, like binoculars or a telescope. If you're lucky, it may be visible to the naked eye, but the tail may not be visible unless you use magnifying equipment.<h1>October 12th Observations</h1>People around the country with clear skies were able to view and photograph the comet on Saturday evening!<div class="twitter-tweet" style="display: flex; justify-content: center" data-twitt-post-id="1845392294288974045" src="https://x.com/WeatherNation/status/1845392294288974045"></div>As the month continues, the comet will gradually appear higher above the western horizon, but it is expected to fade as the month progresses. Here are a few examples of where you'll need to look for the next few evenings of viewing.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot 2024-10-12 132801-1728761314880.jpg"><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot 2024-10-12 132809-1728761323001.jpg">Clear skies will be a must but getting away from city lights will also help the comet stand out as dusk fades into night. Binoculars, a telescope, or a zoom lens on a camera are recommended to help see features of the comet!<h1><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot 2024-10-12 132817-1728761329247.jpg">Cloud Cover</h1>Clouds could be an issue for portions of the Great Lakes and Northeast. A clear western horizon is ideal for spotting the comet.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot 2024-10-13 125731-1728845863212.jpg">

Brittany Lockley

Comet Visible for the Northern Hemisphere in the Evenings

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Wild fires continue to burn late in the season in Wyoming, including the Elk Fire and the Pack Fire as weather conditions haven't really felt like fall the last 2 months. The Pack Fire has likely become a complex fire now that it has joined acreage with a <img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/10/fires NW-1728838855889.jpg">fire that was previously burning to the north. Together, these fires have burned over 140k acres.The Elk fire is burning in the Big Horn National Forest. Weather should moderate to help fire crews over the next few days get better containment, but both of these fires are burning in heavy timber. Smoke and air quality is an ongoing concern.BOISE, ID—The Valley Fire, a new fire east of Boise, Idaho, started on Friday, October 4th. 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/boise fire-1728819858172.png">Air Quality Alerts remain in effect in close proximity to burning fires, due to lofted wildfire smoke. This smoke is expected to get caught in the jet stream and occasionally push into places like Denver and Rapid City.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot 2024-10-10 142231-1728591755915.png">Meanwhile, fires continue to burn across Southern California. The Line Fire, which has had trouble containing, continues to burn. The good news is that it is up to 93% containment, with cooler air coming in.<div class="twitter-tweet" style="display: flex; justify-content: center" data-twitt-post-id="1845091728791044387" src="https://x.com/SanBernardinoNF/status/1845091728791044387"></div>For more details on the heat and fire threat this week, catch your Regional Forecasts at :30 and :50 past every hour!

Steve Glazier

Fire Danger Continues Out West

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Patrick Crawford has always been a huge weather buff! He grew up in Plano, Texas, and it was there that he experienced what Mother Nature was capable of doing. He would always turn on the television to see what local meteorologists were saying about the weather. That's when he realized he wanted to be a meteorologist.

Patrick graduated from Northern Illinois University (’04) with a degree in Meteorology and a double minor in Mathematics and Geography. Broadcast Meteorology has been great to him and he has been able to work in television markets all across the country. Some of his stops have included New Orleans, Green Bay and even Yuma, Arizona. He is so excited to be part of the WeatherNation team.

He has been awarded the prestigious CBM (Certified Broadcast Meteorologist) weather seal from the American Meteorological Society.

Feel free to catch up with Patrick Crawford on his <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MeteorologistPC/">Facebook</a> and on <a href="https://twitter.com/MeteorologistPC">Twitter</a> pages.

Patrick Crawford

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The low pressure system that brought the significant snow across the Northeast over the past 2 days is still churning off the Northeast coastline today. Some areas will still see a few more inches of accumulation, but the major snowfall has taken place and here are some of the latest totals.
<h1>Northeast Snow Totals</h1>
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WOW! These numbers are unbelievable...such a massive early December snowstorm. More snow showers are on the way this week so keep checking with WeatherNation for the very latest.

Updated Snow Totals Across the Northeast

Northeast Snow Totals

End Is in Sight for Record Breaking Heat

PHOENIX, AZ - As of Monday, Phoenix has exper

Lake Effect Precipitation - Some See First Snow!

LAKE PLACID, NY - The Adirondacks have seen t

Widespread Frost Alerts To End Growing Season

Frost and Freeze Alerts have been issued acro

What's Brewing In The Atlantic?

While tropical activity in the Atlantic norma

NASA's Europa Clipper Mission Lifts Off Monday Successfully

CAPE CANAVERAL - NASA's Europa mission began

Comet Visible for the Northern Hemisphere in the Evenings

It has been an incredible year for space phen

Fire Danger Continues Out West

Wild fires continue to burn late in the seaso