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.

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Residents and visitors to the Southeast will have to watch more than fireworks this week as a low pressure system tries to develop toward the holiday weekend, possibly turning into a tropical system thereafter. Regardless of development, heavy rain and rough surf could pose hazards to the region by Friday or over the holiday weekend.<video src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/06/2025-06-29 06-52-57-1751201668827.mp4" controls="true" width="100%"></video>As a cold front drops south to end the week, it looks to stall in northern Florida, creating opposing surface winds over very warm Gulf waters. This situation can and has led to the quick development of tropical systems in the past.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/06/Screenshot 2025-06-29 065311-1751201687581.png">The WPC is forecasting heavy rain around the Big Bend and Florida's Gulf Coast during the week ahead, which could cause flooding issues in addition to disrupting holiday plans.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/06/Screenshot 2025-06-29 170834-1751238605165.png">Temperatures in the Gulf and Atlantic are well above the threshold for tropical development (78 degrees F) and are even 10 degrees warmer in the northern Gulf, where this system could develop by Friday or Saturday.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/06/Screenshot 2025-06-29 065804-1751201974529.png">The next name for an Atlantic system is Chantal. As always, we will keep you updated with the latest developments in the tropics.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/06/Screenshot 2025-06-29 091803-1751210302668.png">

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Hurricane Center Monitoring Florida for Tropical Development

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Kevin Schneider

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While the Eastern Pacific has made most of the headlines in the western hemisphere so far this hurricane season, activity in the Atlantic is starting to make some waves. After the quick formation and dissipation of Andrea in the central Atlantic last week, Tropical Storm Barry formed earlier Sunday morning before making landfall Sunday night.<h1>ATLANTIC</h1>Tropical Depression Barry made landfall 15 miles south-southeast of Tampico, Mexico, at 10:00 PM CDT on Sunday night. Barry made landfall as a tropical depression with sustained winds of 35 mph and a central pressure of 1007 mb. Heavy rain and isolated flash flooding will be the main impacts of this system. As far as rainfall totals, Barry, or its remnants, is expected to produce rainfall of 3 to 6 inches, with some areas seeing up to 10 inches. Tropical alerts have been discontinued by the government of Mexico.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/06/Screenshot 2025-06-29 203609-1751251164837.png">Systems only get names if they reach tropical storm status (sustained winds over 39 mph) or higher. The next name up on the list in the Atlantic Basin is Chantal.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/06/Screenshot 2025-06-29 090213-1751209339048.png">Although the Atlantic is off to a slow start, this is not unusual for June. Historically, tropical activity in the Atlantic does not typically ramp up until later in the summer, particularly in August and September, with the peak occurring around the 15th of September.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/05/Screenshot 2025-05-29 104849-1748537876634.png">For now, the quiet beginning to the season is considered perfectly normal.&nbsp;The early season will more often see more tropical storms than hurricanes, but hurricanes can form and impact the United States, so it's <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.weathernationtv.com/news/hurricane-prep-week-2025">always best to be prepared</a>.NOAA and Colorado State are expecting an above-average season in the Atlantic Basin. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.weathernationtv.com/news/noaa-predicts-above-average-2025-hurricane-season">Click here to read more.</a><h1>EASTERN PACIFIC</h1>The 2025 Eastern Pacific hurricane season is off to a record-breaking start, with five named storms: Alvin, Barbara, Cosme, Dalila, and Erick. This level of early activity is well ahead of the seasonal average, which typically sees the first named storm by June 10, the second by June 24, and the third by July 6. Dalila forming on the 13th marked the fastest four storms to be named in the basin since record-keeping began, beating 1974, which saw Dolores form by June 14.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/06/Screenshot 2025-06-22 205029-1750647070946.png">The Eastern Pacific stays active for the foreseeable future. Thunderstorm activity continues to get better organized, officially becoming Tropical Storm Flossie Sunday morning. The system is expected to strengthen into another hurricane, bringing a glancing blow to the western coast of Mexico.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/06/Screenshot 2025-06-29 204135-1751251729483.png">With a close approach to the western coast, the Mexican government has posted Tropical Storm Watches between Manzanillo and Zihuatenejo, where elevated winds could graze the coastline. When this system gets named, it will be Flossie.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/06/Screenshot 2025-06-29 204151-1751251740849.png"><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/06/Screenshot 2025-06-29 204919-1751251777205.png">

Barry Makes Landfall, Watching Flossie Next

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Meteorologist Jesse Kelley is excited to join the talented staff at Weather Nation. Jesse spent most of his childhood in Birmingham, Alabama. The state of Alabama is prone to seeing various types of weather from severe thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes, and winter weather. For college, Jesse attended the University of South Alabama where he received his degree in Broadcast Meteorology along with minors in Math and Geography. From Alabama, Jesse started his broadcast television working three years at KAVU-TV in Victoria. Recently, he finished a stint in Shreveport, LA. Jesse and his wife are looking forward to making the Rocky Mountains and Colorado home. If you would like to follow me, you can follow me on Twitter @JesseKelleywx and on Facebook at Meteorologist Jesse Kelley.

Jesse Kelley

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Multiple rounds of severe storms have been moving across the Midwest these last few days, with multiple tornadoes touching down on consecutive nights. On Friday night, tornadoes touched down across central North Dakota. By Saturday evening, several tornadoes were observed along the South Dakota and Minnesota state line.<div class="twitter-tweet" style="display: flex; justify-content: center" data-twitt-post-id="1938937931059671224" src="https://x.com/WeatherNation/status/1938937931059671224"></div>The incredible stretch of severe weather has been adding up this month. We've seen 65% of our annual number of tornadoes in just one month!<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/06/Screenshot 2025-06-29 041823-1751192382023.jpg"><h1>Outlooks</h1>Storms continue to rumble across the Upper Midwest this evening and into the overnight hours. The biggest threat will be damaging winds and large hail.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/06/OVERNIGHTSSSS-1751246235078.png"><h1><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/06/Screenshot 2025-06-29 122622-1751221587852.png">TIMING</h1>As the cold front moves eastward, it will be the trigger mechanism for additional thunderstorm development over the next couple of days! Heavy rain will be possible too. <video src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/06/saf-1751246429603.mp4" controls="true" width="100%"></video>Make sure to tune into WeatherNation for all the latest updates.

Severe Weather Threat Continues in the Midwest

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Frontal systems have been crossing the northern tier of the country this week, spurring strong and severe storms as they progress from west to east. Several of these fronts have kicked up severe storms and heavy downpours on the East Coast. This pattern looks to continue through Tuesday as several boundaries move across the area.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/06/last2-1751246596517.png"><h1>Severe Weather Outlooks</h1>Another storm system will begin moving into the region on Monday, possibly leading to a few more severe storms along its warm front. A marginal risk for severe storms has been issued from central Pennsylvania through the middle Atlantic.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/06/Screenshot 2025-06-29 122319-1751221451833.png">As the cold front moves through on Tuesday, the severe storm risk becomes more widespread from Maine to South Carolina. The SPC has upgraded to a SLIGHT (level 2 out of 5) risk for portions of the DMV, PA, and NJ.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/06/Screenshot 2025-06-29 180741-1751243508346.png"><h1>Forecast</h1>The afternoons look to be the most active, with some storms persisting into the evening hours. The storm threat stalls in portions of the Mid-Atlantic and North Carolina on Sunday before more severe storms target the I-95 corridor on Monday and Tuesday.<video src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/06/rne bhams2k-1751243665677.mp4" controls="true" width="100%"></video>Pockets of heavy rain will be possible, and therefore, flash flooding. Rainfall rates could top 2" per hour in some downpours.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/06/Screenshot 2025-06-29 183448-1751243703928.png">

Severe Storms For the East Coast Through Tuesday

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An upper-level ridge is building into the Desert Southwest. This feature will bring intense heat to portions of Arizona and southern California, particularly by Monday afternoon.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/06/Screenshot 2025-06-29 205326-1751252027113.png">Extreme Heat Warnings have been issued for much of the Sonoran Desert, along with the bottom of the Grand Canyon! Places like Phoenix will threaten daily record high temperatures, especially on Monday and Tuesday.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/06/Screenshot 2025-06-29 042210-1751192564529.jpg"><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/06/tomer west heat mondays highs-1751227360614.jpg">Monday looks to be the hottest day, as several locations could top out at over 115°! Even though Phoenix is, of course, hot in the summertime, these are temperatures running 10 degrees above average. Even those who are experienced in hot climates may struggle to deal with this type of heat.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/06/Screenshot 2025-06-28 164527-1751151097274.png">Major and Extreme heat impacts will be possible across Arizona and southern California on Monday, but the Northwest too could be impacted by the rising mercury.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/06/Screenshot 2025-06-29 111737-1751217466843.png"><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/06/tomer pnw mondays highs-1751227428892.jpg">Well above-average temperatures will be felt to start next week here, with the Willamette Valley reaching well into the 90s, and a few locations potentially topping out in the triple digits. We'll continue to watch this developing story, as well as keep an eye on when things might cool off a bit!

Severe Weather Threat Continues in the Midwest

Severe Storms For the East Coast Through Tuesday

Extreme Heat Continues Out West

Hurricane Center Monitoring Florida for Tropical Development

Barry Makes Landfall, Watching Flossie Next

Severe Weather Threat Continues in the Midwest

Severe Storms For the East Coast Through Tuesday

Extreme Heat Continues Out West

Hurricane Center Monitoring Florida for Tropical Development

Barry Makes Landfall, Watching Flossie Next

Severe Weather Threat Continues in the Midwest

Severe Storms For the East Coast Through Tuesday

Extreme Heat Continues Out West