Fire Weather Threat in Oklahoma Region

The National Weather Service in Tulsa has issued a FIRE WEATHER ALERT which is in effect until 6 p.m. for the following counties in Oklahoma: WASHINGTON, NOWATA, CRAIG, Creek, OTTAWA, TULSA, ROGERS, MAYES,DELAWARE, OKFUSKEE, OKMULGEE, WAGONER, CHEROKEE, ADAIR, MUSKOGEE, MCINTOSH, SEQUOYAH, AND HASKELL.

 Very strong South winds in the 20 to 30 miles per hour range with gusts close to 40 MPH are expected later today across much of Eastern Oklahoma and Northwest Arkansas.

These strong winds combined with record warmth and dry conditions of late will yield an elevated fire danger.

A FIRE WEATHER ALERT is issued when dangerous fire weather conditions are expected but are below RED FLAG criteria. A FIRE WEATHER ALERT may also be issued to relay State or county fire information … such as burning bans.

http://www.miamiok.com/news/article_489f7968-de33-570d-9409-b639df5004a5.html 

Rain Continues to Pour Over Norther California

Residents of Northern California are getting a bit of a respite after two major storms moved through the region, but a third big storm is on the way.

Showers and rain are in the forecast for Saturday, but forecasters say late Saturday and early Sunday a third storm _ the biggest of the three _ will bring more heavy rain to the area.

With the region soaked from the two previous storms, the National Weather Service says the rain from the next storm may be just enough to push the water level in streams and creeks over their banks.

Forecasters have issued a flash flood watch for a wide area of Northern California through Sunday evening.

Besides the possibility of flooding, the storm is also expected to cause problems along the coast.

The National Weather Service has issued a high surf advisory, with swells expected to be 14 to 16 feet.

Severe Storms Expected to Strike Mississippi

Long time Mississippi residents know that this time of year, especially on or around Thanksgiving, can bring a severe weather threat and this year is no different.

The Storm Prediction Center (SPC) and National Weather Service (NWS) have highlighted portions of western and central Mississippi for the possibility of experiencing severe storms Monday night.

The area highlighted under the severe risk includes areas along and south of Highway 82 and along and west of Interstate 55. This does include much of the Jackson metro area and the cities of Vicksburg, Greenville, Greenwood, Yazoo City and Natchez.

 http://www.examiner.com/article/severe-weather-threat-across-parts-of-mississippi-late-monday

Strong Winds Cause Damage in Australia

Much of the southern part of Western Australia has experienced dangerous wind gusts today but the worst of it is over according to Bureau of Meteorology climate and weather officer John Relf.
Areas south of Bunbury are still in line for damaging winds in excess of 125km/h.
The worst effected areas are expected to be coastal parts.
On Wednesday evening WA police said severe weather had closed the entertainment zone set up for school leavers in Dunsborough, and advised teenagers to stay at their accommodation.
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Mr Relf said wind gusts had reached 117km/h at Rottnest Island and 98km/h at Perth Airport.
"Which is substantial considering anything over 90km/h is considered severe," he said.


Read more: http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/strong-winds-wreak-havoc-across-perth-20121128-2acrl.html#ixzz2DXPw0YWZ

Snow Causes Traffic in Oregon

The Oregon Department of Transportation has reopened Interstate 84 between La Grande and Pendleton.
There have been numerous spin outs along I-84 in eastern Oregon and severe weather is hampering travelers through the Blue Mountains.
Transportation officials closed nearly 50 miles of the interstate this morning due to wintry conditions and several accidents near mile post 245, the Meacham area.
Drivers should expect winter conditions in mountain pass areas of eastern Oregon.

http://www.ktvb.com/news/Interstate-84-closed-in-E-Oregon-due-to-severe-weather-179146061.html

Severe Weather Disrupts Airlines

FORT WORTH, Texas - Due to severe weather projected for the Northeast tomorrow, American Airlines and American Eagle are suspending operations at a several airports in the region beginning tomorrow afternoon. American encourages customers to continue to check AA.com/TravelAlerts for the latest information. Updates will also be available at Facebook.com/AmericanAirlines and Twitter.com/AmericanAir.

Operational Impact

American Airlines and American Eagle are suspending operations tomorrow, Nov. 7, in Philadelphia (PHL) at noon and at all New York-area airports by 3 p.m. Operations at these airports are expected to start up again the morning of Thursday, Nov. 8. American and American Eagle have canceled approximately 290 flights to, from and through these airports on Nov. 7 and 8. Additional delays and cancellations may occur as American resumes operations in New York and Philadelphia.

http://www.eturbonews.com/32144/united-delta-and-american-air-update-customers-flight-operations

Nor'easter Scheduled to Hit East Coast

Just what New York and New Jersey need after the devastation of Superstorm Sandy: more high winds.

The National Weather Service predicted Sunday that a Nor'easter that could include gusts of up to 55 mph is likely to reach the area by Wednesday and could compound the havoc brought by last week's violent weather.

"Prepare for more outages," advised weather service meteorologist Joe Pollina. "Stay indoors. Stock up again."

He said the new storm wouldn't be nearly as strong as Sandy, but could pack winds "stronger than usual, even strong for a Nor'easter."

Meanwhile, cold temperatures streamed in and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said that means "tens of thousands" of people whose homes were damaged by the superstorm will need other places to live.

"It's going to become increasingly clear" that homes without heat are uninhabitable, the governor said. He said residents who have been reluctant to leave their homes will be forced to and will need housing.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said 20,000 people in the city could need housing help.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/weather/2012/11/05/noreaster-on-track-to-hit-weather-beaten-new-york-new-jersey/#ixzz2BMwVlHUx

Large Hail Headed Towards Australia

Heavy rain with a possibility of flash flooding is being predicted by meteorologists who warn a severe thunderstorm warning remains in place for much of South Australia.

Electricity was cut to the whole of Kangaroo Island on Monday afternoon after a lightning strike on the mainland cut power to the undersea cable.

Emergency generators at Brownlow were activated at 7pm to restore power in the Kingscote area.

"Scattered thunderstorms are occurring with and ahead of a frontal system which is moving across central and eastern parts of SA," read the statement from the Bureau of Meteorology.

"Some of these thunderstorms may be severe during this evening with localised damaging wind gusts and short-lived very heavy rainfall that may lead to flash flooding. 

"There is also a risk of large hailstones with the thunderstorms in the north, north of about Port Augusta."

http://www.borderwatch.com.au/story/591888/severe-weather-warning-for-rain-large-hail/?cs=12 

Snow Hits W. Virginia Hard

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- More than one-fifth of the state is without power, several major highways are closed and more severe weather is on the way the morning after the remnants of Hurricane Sandy hit West Virginia with full force.

Sandy, now classified as a post-tropical cyclone, will continue to bringing high winds, heavy rains and blizzard conditions to areas of the state today as it slowly moves across the northeastern United States.

Blizzard warnings are still in effect for the state's eastern mountain counties, including Raleigh, Fayette, Nicholas, Pocahontas and Greenbrier counties. Kanawha, Putnam, Lincoln, Clay Boone, Mingo Logan and Braxton counties are under a winter storm warning until today.

The storm has knocked out power to more than 265,000 households across the state -- and outage numbers are rising rapidly.

http://www.dailymail.com/News/201210300018 

Sandy Devastates New York

It was the storm that made history and misery, left death and unprecedented destruction, crippled mass transit and tested the city’s mettle from the Bronx to Breezy Point.

Hurricane Sandy pounded the city into submission Tuesday, with officials reporting at least 19 New Yorkers killed during the storm’s lethal two-day attack and estimating damages at a staggering $20 billion.

The dead included a heroic city cop who drowned inside a flooded Staten Island basement after rescuing his girlfriend, infant and father; a dog-walker and her friend killed by a tree that fell in Brooklyn; a Manhattan woman who died when a power outage cut off her oxygen supply; and a man killed when a downtown mini-tsunami whipped across lower Manhattan and slammed him through a glass door. “Catastrophic or historic” were hardly overstatement when it came to Sandy, said Gov. Cuomo as the city and the suburbs awoke to a massive hurricane headache that threatened to linger for days.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/deadly-hurricane-sandy-takes-20b-toll-city-article-1.1195048#ixzz2AtSCfulQ

Tornadoes Strike Some Southern States

JACKSON, Miss. — At least four tornadoes were part of the storm system that raked northern and central Mississippi on Wednesday night and Thursday morning, injuring at least seven people, the National Weather Service said.

The biggest of the four storms was a twister that traveled 16 miles through several counties east of Jackson. With a half-mile-wide damage path, it was rated EF-3 on the Fujita scale, with peak winds estimated at 140 mph, the weather service said. That storm blew down trees as well as three electrical transmission towers.

Another tornado in Mississippi that injured three people was rated an EF-2, running seven miles with a quarter-mile-wide debris path before lifting off, the weather service said. It had top estimated winds of 125 mph.

The tornadoes accompanied a line of severe storms that swept across the Southeast overnight Wednesday and early Thursday, downing power lines and trees and damaging homes around the region.

In Mississippi, a woman was trapped temporarily in her bed when a tree came crashing through her roof. Rescuers had to cut the tree to get her out, said Scott County Emergency Management Director Alvin Seaney.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20121018/us-severe-weather/

South Africa Hit by Severe Weather

South Africa has been pounded by some hazardous weather over the past few days.

The weather first turned severe on Thursday in the southwest of the country. 32 hikers had to be rescued after being trapped by heavy rain on the Whale Trail near Bredasdorp.

The worst of the weather struck in the southeast of the country. According to provincial disaster management officials, eight people, including a five-year-old boy, died in the severe weather in the Eastern Cape.

The deaths occurred whilst people were attempting to cross streams or when their vehicles were washed away.

The flooding was so severe, that it even washed away a section of the main N2 highway, which links Grahamstown to Port Elizabeth.

As well as torrential rain, the weather system also delivered large hailstones. Some reports say that the hail was as big as tennis balls in some parts of Johannesburg.

The ice smashed into cars and broke windows of many homes and businesses, and caused a number of traffic accidents.

The severe weather is due to a low pressure which is still delivering widespread thunderstorms across many parts of the country. The treacherous conditions are expected to continue across southern parts of the Western and Eastern Cape during Monday, before clearing away from the southern regions on Tuesday. 

http://www.aljazeera.com/weather/2012/10/2012102284341144733.html 

Damaging Hail Possible in Tulsa, Oklahoma

TULSA, Okla. — 

The Tulsa metropolitan area will see heavy rain, with the possibility of damaging hail and high winds Saturday afternoon and evening, according to the National Weather Service and News on 6 Chief Meteorologist Travis Meyer.

The storms will arrive in the late afternoon or early evening, perhaps as early as 5:00 p.m. but more likely around 6:00 p.m., Meyer tells KRMG.

NWS storm prediction maps show Tulsa in the middle of a zone of predicted severe weather which stretches from northeastern Mexico to Wisconsin.

The National Weather Service Cancels Tornado Warning

CHICAGO — The National Weather Service has cancelled a tornado warning for Chicago-area suburbs as a severe thunderstorm system moved through the area this afternoon.

Weather service officials say the storm that prompted the warnings earlier Sunday afternoon had weakened and no longer posed a threat of tornados.

The national weather agency had initially reported a tornado was possible as thunderstorms moved across Cook and DuPage counties. The warnings were supposed to remain in effect until 3 p.m. but were cancelled shortly before then.

Despite the cancellation, 50-mph winds and heavy rainfall was still expected.

Severe Thunderstorms Possible in Virginia

Severe thunderstorms could hit central Virginia this afternoon and evening as a cold front moves across the region, the National Weather Service says.

“A few of the storms may become severe...with the main threat being damaging wind gusts,” the weather service said in a statement. “Locally heavy downpours are also possible.”

The forecast applies to most of central Virginia and all of the Richmond area.

Today's forecast calls for cloudy skies and a 70 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after noon, with a high near 74 degrees.

The rain should move out overnight, leading to sunny skies Tuesday and a high near 69 degrees.

Wednesday should be mostly sunny with a high near 71 degrees.

Partly sunny skies are in the forecast Thursday, when the high is projected at 76 degrees.

Rounding out the work week, Friday should bring a 30 percent chance of showers with a high near 73.

Severe Weather Interrupts Search for Hikers

Search efforts to find two missing hikers in Glacier National Park’s Two Medicine area were greatly hampered by Mother Nature on Sunday.

Rescue crews battled 70-mph winds, over an inch of snow on the trails and 5-foot tall snow drifts in some areas as they hunted for Virginia resident Neal Peckens, 32, and Maryland resident, Jason Hiser, 32, said Denise Germann, park spokeswoman.

The two men were reported missing by their families on Friday, when they missed their flights home to the East Coast.

Peckens and Hiser departed from the North Shore Trailhead at Two Medicine on Tuesday, Oct. 9.  According to their backcountry permit, the men planned to camp at the Oldman Backcountry Campground on Tuesday night and return to Two Medicine on Wednesday, Oct. 10.   

Aerial searches on Sunday were challenged by snowy and windy conditions, as well as by a low ceiling of clouds which blanketed the park most of the day, Germann said.

Flooding in Connecticut

Flooding caused problems in parts of the state on Friday afternoon as 2.5 inches of rain fell quickly. 

Officials from the Milford Fire Department said they had to rescue about 25 people from flooding and probably took more than 100 calls for basement flooding, 

The two biggest issues were flooding at the Westfield Connecticut Post in Milford, which closed for about half an hour, and St. Anne's Church, which is dealing with oil from a neighboring property leaking into the church.

The Stratford Fire Department responded to more than 35 incidents, many of which included rescuing people from stranded cars. Ten cars were stuck in high water in just one of those incidences, according to the Stratford Fire Department.

http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/weather/stories/Flash-Flood-Warning-for-Fairfield-County-171799971.html 

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in the South

The National Weather Service in Tallahassee has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for eastern Jackson County in the panhandle of Florida, Southeastern Houston County in southeast Alabama.

The National Weather Service in Tallahassee has issued a

Severe thunderstorm warning for:
Eastern Jackson county in the panhandle of Florida
Southeastern Houston county in southeast Alabama
Southern Early county in southwest Georgia
Northwestern Seminole county in southwest Georgia

Until 11:45 am CT/12:45 pm EST

At 11:13 am CT The National Weather Service has detected a severe
thunderstorm capable of producing damaging winds in excess of 60 mph. This storm was located 8 miles northeast of Marianna, or
near Greenwood and moving northeast at 35 mph.

.. Other locations in the warning include but are not limited to
Lovedale...Buena Vista...Bascom...Malone...Grangeburg...
Hornsville...Steam Mill...Chattahoochee...Lucy...Crosby...
Harmon...Pansey...Jakin...Gordon...Saffold and Killarney.

http://www.wctv.tv/news/headlines/WEATHER-ALERT-Strong-Storms-Possible-Today-172108231.html 

Severe Weather Hits Scotland

SCOTLAND’S first autumn storm struck overnight and sparked a 48-hour severe weather warning.

Forecasters expect hurricane-force near-80mph gales and up to three inches of rain today – causing transport chaos and flooding.

Forecasters said the weather system – the tailend of tropical storm Nadine near the Azores threatened “horrendous” conditions across a large part of Scotland.

The Met Office warned of possible flooding and transport problems from heavy rain and strong winds. Such high winds can uproot trees, blow vehicles sideways and close bridges.

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency are considering flood alerts.

The Met Office issued warnings today for “very heavy downpours” in the Central Belt and the east and south.

There could be up to 50-75mm of rain – two weeks’ worth – with wind gusts to 70mph.

Netweather said gusts could approach 80mph.

Forecasters issued more warnings for tomorrow for all of Scotland bar the far north – with stiff winds and heavy showers also on Wednesday.

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/severe-weather-warning-issued-as-scotland-1340706 

Tropical Storm Kristy forms in Pacific

MIAMI (AP) - Forecasters say Tropical Storm Kristy has formed off the Mexico coast and that if it deviates north, the southern tip of the Baja, Calif., may be in its path.

Kristy's maximum sustained winds increased to near 45 mph (75 kph) Wednesday evening. It is about 380 miles (610 kilometers) south-southeast of the southern tip of California and moving northwest. No coastal warnings or watches are in effect.

Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Nadine has strengthened in the Atlantic and could still become a hurricane, but is still far from land.

Nadine's maximum sustained winds increased to near 65 mph (105 kph) Wednesday evening. The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Nadine could become a hurricane by Thursday or Thursday night.

The storm is centered about 875 miles (1,410 kilometers) east-northeast of the Lesser Antilles and is moving west-northwest near 17 mph (28 kph).