Kevin Schneider

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It's that time of year. The back-and-forth arm wrestling of the seasons plays out on top of us each Spring. Strong clashes can only be brought on by strong systems.Our next one moves into the Plains and Eastern U.S. late this week and into the weekend.KEY MESSAGES:• Strong cross-country system starts in <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.weathernationtv.com/news/weekend-rain-snow-for-the-west">California Wednesday</a> and moves East through the weekend • Severe weather is expected Friday (Plains and Mississippi Valley) through Sunday (East Coast) • Threats include: tornadoes, large hail, damaging winds, and flooding • Blizzard conditions possible behind the front • Intense windsLike most systems, this one moves onshore out west first. A strong trough will leap over the Rockies and emerge in the Plains Thursday into Friday. It will move onshore strong but get even stronger crossing the Rockies with a little help in the upper levels of the atmosphere. That strengthening trough will birth a low-pressure center at the surface where our system lives.<h1><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/03/Screenshot 2025-03-09 101836-1741537127914.jpg">Severe Storms</h1>As always, the first concern jumps to severe weather in March. With a strong system, warm and unstable air will get yanked northward, setting the stage for severe weather on Friday through Sunday. The Storm Prediction Center is already eyeing a large area of concern on Friday and Saturday. It's a little too early to know for sure, but there will be plenty of ingredients to tap into, it's a matter of where. That said, the area of concern has increased, up to a 30% chance of seeing severe storms.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/03/Screenshot 2025-03-11 144502-1741725941802.jpg">They also have a risk for severe storms on Saturday as well. This includes portions of the Deep South: Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Florida are all a part of this outlook.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/03/Screenshot 2025-03-11 144551-1741725963500.jpg">The severe threat will round out the end of the weekend, with the eastern seaboard up next on Sunday.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/03/Screenshot 2025-03-11 144515-1741725971609.jpg"><h1>Winter Weather</h1>It wouldn't be a March blockbuster without some snow on the backside of the system. The Upper Midwest will be primed for heavy snowfall and some whiteout conditions if the track holds. A lot will ride on how much cold air gets dragged down as the system comes together later this week.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/03/Screenshot 2025-03-11 132002-1741720815099.png"><h1>Flooding Threat</h1>Severe weather. Check. Potential blizzard conditions. Check. Flooding looks like another issue to monitor later this week as well. It will go in line with many of the same spots to pick up severe chances, but also where too much rain has fallen over the past month in the Ohio River Valley.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/03/Screenshot 2025-03-11 131944-1741720792499.png">Excessive Rainfall Outlooks have been issued for both Friday and Saturday, but by Saturday, the outlook upgrades from a level 1 MARGINAL to level 2 out of 4 SLIGHT for cities including Huntsville, Birmingham, and Atlanta on Saturday. <img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/03/Screenshot 2025-03-12 061209-1741781542563.jpg">Stay with us all week as details become clearer over the coming days!

Brittany Lockley

Monster Storm System Looms End of Week

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It's been incredibly dry over parts of the Lone Star state. Like many things in life, dry time is helpful but in moderation. We're on the 2nd driest stretch in recorded history in El Paso. Not even a tenth of an inch has fallen since mid-November! <img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/03/Screenshot 2025-03-12 061619-1741782486909.jpg">All of that dry weather has led to an abundance of dry things to burn around the West Texas and southern New Mexico region. Any time the winds start to kick up, the fire concerns will return until more rain falls. On Wednesday, the fire concerns will be extremely critical around San Angelo (above). This is the 8th extreme day that the Storm Prediction Center has issued so far this year, more than all of 2023-2024 COMBINED. <img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/03/Screenshot 2025-03-12 061552-1741782618107.jpg">As our next big system gets its act together Thursday, the fire concern will expand northward, where Fire Weather Watches are in place.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/03/Screenshot 2025-03-12 063102-1741782710601.jpg">As with any day, but especially today, be vigilant not to do anything that could cause a spark or a flame. If an evacuation order is issued for your area, heed it. Any grass fire could exhibit erratic behavior this afternoon. <img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/03/Screenshot 2025-03-12 063235-1741782858153.jpg">

High Winds Ignite Wildfire Concerns This Week

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Chris Tomer

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FOUR CORNERS - The same system that will bring rain and heavy snow to California, Oregon, and Nevada will move through the Four Corners to bring snow to ski country later this week. The first storm system arrives Thursday, with a deep trough and powerful jet stream (above).Rain and snow work in Thursday morning for Utah, by Thursday evening the snow will already be in Colorado. It is not until Friday morning that the snow could move to the lower elevations. Forecast models are still keeping most of the snow to the higher elevations at this time.<video src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/03/2025-03-12 06-08-21-1741781347116.mp4" controls="true" width="100%"></video>Snowfall totals through the end of the weekend do not look to be overly impressive for our lower elevation locations, but the mountains, especially Utah's, will get a decent enough amount for skiers and snowboarders to be happy.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/03/Screenshot 2025-03-12 060921-1741781472900.png">A few winter alerts are starting to fill into the Four Corners, but according to the winter storm severity index, there are only a few areas in Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico that reach the "major" impact level on a scale of limited, minor, moderate, major and extreme. This includes the southern mountains of Utah and into the Mogollon Rim in Arizona.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/03/Screenshot 2025-03-12 061022-1741781464783.png">Windy conditions will be a problem over the next several days with winds gusting 40- 50 mph.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/03/Screenshot 2025-03-12 061333-1741781621407.jpg">Be sure to catch more at :50 past the hour for your western regional forecast.

More Snow on the Way for Ski Country

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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.

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Rob Bradley

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Don't miss the total lunar eclipse this week - it will be the last for North America until 2029! The eclipse will happen very late Thursday night - technically Friday morning since totality will start after midnight. As the moon moves into the umbra or the darkest shadow cast by the earth, it will turn a deep red hue. This will happen starting around 1 am ET, but the red color will become much more noticeable around 2 am, with totality or the complete blood moon look, happening between 2:26 am and 3:31 am ET.<video src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/03/2025-03-08 08-28-36-1741448546607.mp4" controls="true" width="100%"></video>Here's a look at how the moon will change from its classic white to dark red as it moves across Earth's shadow. <img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/03/Screenshot 2025-03-08 084030-1741448509493.png">This Friday's eclipse is a "total" lunar eclipse, so designated because it passes through the darkest portion of Earth's shadow known as the umbra. While this earth's shadow is always present, it isn't too often that the moon moves directly through the darkest part.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/03/Screenshot 2025-03-08 085447-1741449297753.png">During a partial lunar eclipse, the "umbra", or earth's hard shadow, doesn't fully cover the moon, only a portion. During a penumbral lunar eclipse, the earth only passes through the "soft" shadow of the moon, with the umbra completely missing the lunar surface.

Total Lunar Eclipse "Blood Moon" Happening This Week

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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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Despite recent storm systems, California's snowpack remains below average (about 82% ). As our latest system wraps up, California and Nevada did pick up an additional foot to two feet of snow. The weather pattern will pick up for all of the Western United States. Some early modeling shows several feet of snow falling across the Northern Sierra with lesser amounts further south. Lots of snow is also coming to the Northwest.The National Weather Service has already issued Winter Storm Warnings for this system. The forecast calls for 1-4 feet of snowfall and winds up to 70 mph.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/03/Screenshot 2025-03-12 061410-1741781659285.jpg">Here's a look at the latest timing. There will be multiple rounds of wet weather before heading to California. The first has moved through, bringing rain to Southern California, but the larger system will bring in rain and snow turning heavy on Wednesday: Friday, another round of moisture gears up to work through the Golden State.<video src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/03/LKLKKFFF-1741739942560.mp4" controls="true" width="100%"></video>The Weather Prediction Center (WPC) has a level 2 risk for flooding across Southern California on Wednesday and Thursday.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/03/Screenshot 2025-03-12 061346-1741781636825.jpg">For the latest updates, join us :50 past the hour for your Western regional forecast on WeatherNation.

Cross Country Storm Begins in California

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A preliminary EF-2 rating was given to a tornado that happened Monday morning in Florida. This happened in the Longwood area of Seminole County, FL with max winds 115 mph with a path length 1.8 miles.A lingering marginal threat remains through the day with isolated tornadoes and strong winds being the main threat.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/03/Screenshot 2025-03-10 162133-1741645299126.png">Be sure to join us :10 past the hour for your eastern regional forecast on WeatherNation.

EF-2 Tornado Passed Through Florida Monday Morning

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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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CENTRAL PLAINS - Warm temperatures return to the Plains this week thanks to ridging over the Gulf. This will lead to the potential for record breaking high temperatures across the Plains of Nebraska, the Dakotas, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, and MIchigan. Each red dot above represents a city that may break or tie a record high.These temperatures will average 20-30 degrees above the normal for Monday afternoon.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/03/Screenshot 2025-03-09 194634-1741571295978.jpg">This warmth will continue through the work week (with one large exception) across our northern Plains cities. We should be averaging in the 40s this time of year.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/03/Screenshot 2025-03-10 045938-1741604459395.jpg">Watch what happens after highs today reach the 60's in the Dakotas. A sharp cold front drops through, shoving wind chill values back into the single digits Monday night into Tuesday morning. <video src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/03/2025-03-10 05-00-05-1741604451164.mp4" controls="true" width="100%"></video>For more details on our next best chance for precipitation be sure to join us on WeatherNation, we're always streaming!

Spring-like Temperatures In the Central Plains

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In a matter of two hours, the Hill Fire in southern California grew to 8-10,000 acres. Powerful Santa Ana winds whipped the fire just west northwest of Los Angeles. Parts of US 101 were closed in both directions as the fire jumped the highway. An estimated 1,200 homes were evacuated to keep residents safe. The nearby Woolsey Fire also forced people to leave their homes. These two fires could merge, creating a large and dangerous complex.

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Officials are desperately working to contain the Camp Fire growing wildly in Butte County, CA, near Chico. The fire got its name after starting near Camp Creek Road in rural Butte County, California. Reports first came in around 6:30 a.m. Fire fighters describe the fire as dynamic and strong. In a matter of 4-5 hours, the fire grew from 5000 to nearly 20,000 acres.

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Evacuation orders are in effect for nearly 30,000 people in the Paradise, Magalia, Concow, Butte Creek Canyon and Butte Valley areas. As the situation changes, different evacuation routes are being impacted. Residents can follow the <a href="https://twitter.com/ButteSheriff">Butte County Sheriff</a> for details.

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Fire danger will continue on Friday. Red Flag Warnings and Wind Alerts will be in effect once again. Santa Ana winds in southern California are of particular concern.

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Camp and Hill Fires Burn Rapidly in California

Monster Storm System Looms End of Week

It's that time of year. The back-and-forth ar

High Winds Ignite Wildfire Concerns This Week

It's been incredibly dry over parts of the Lo

More Snow on the Way for Ski Country

FOUR CORNERS - The same system that will brin

Total Lunar Eclipse "Blood Moon" Happening This Week

Don't miss the total lunar eclipse this week

Cross Country Storm Begins in California

Despite recent storm systems, California's sn

EF-2 Tornado Passed Through Florida Monday Morning

A preliminary EF-2 rating was given to a torn

Spring-like Temperatures In the Central Plains

CENTRAL PLAINS - Warm temperatures return to