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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Despite recent storms, California's snowpack remains below average (about 81% of normal). Last night, Southern California saw rainfall with our first upper level low moving onshore. Through Friday, our next low will not only bring rain to southern California, the rest of the state can expect rain and snowfall.<h2>Forecast Timing</h2>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 today.<video src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/03/Baron 2-1741835330132.mp4" controls="true" width="100%"></video><h2>Snowfall Forecast</h2>The National Weather Service has issued Winter Weather Alerts for 1-4 feet of snowfall and winds up to 70 mph.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/03/1-1741835389857.png"><h2>Flooding Risk</h2>The Weather Prediction Center (WPC) has a level 2 risk for flooding across Southern California for tonight and tomorrow.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/03/1-1741835524477.png"><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/03/1-1741835637873.png">For the latest updates, join us :50 past the hour for your Western regional forecast on WeatherNation.

Jesse Kelley

Cross Country Storm Begins in California

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Kevin Schneider

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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 kick up, the fire concerns will return until more rain falls. Tonight, the fire concerns will be extreme 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 143206-1741811534154.png">As our next big system gets its act together Thursday, the fire concern will expand north and east, where Fire Weather Watches are in place.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/03/1-1741834952254.png">As with any day, 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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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 Storm Threat</h1><h2>Friday</h2>The Storm Prediction Center has issued an ENHANCED (level 3 out of 5) risk for severe storms on Friday. St. Louis, Memphis, and Jackson are a few cities in the enhanced risk for Friday.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/03/Screenshot 2025-03-12 135036-1741809395389.png">Storms look to favor the northern side of this system, but everyone highlighted needs to be on alert for severe weather.<h2><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/03/Screenshot 2025-03-12 134723-1741808907592.png"> Saturday - Sunday</h2>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 2025-03-12 134729-1741809458347.png">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 2025-03-12 134734-1741809463469.png"><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/2025/03/1-1741835081380.png"> Excessive rainfall outlooks have been issued for the end of the week and into the weekend. By Saturday, this risk is at a level 2, SLIGHT, risk for heavy rainfall that may lead to flash flooding.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/03/Screenshot 2025-03-12 134101-1741809476572.png">Stay with us all week as details become clearer over the coming days!

Monster Storm System Looms End of 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 starting on Thursday. 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/2025/03/03-12_4 corners 18z-1741835439710.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 211058-1741835475813.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 211124-1741835497930.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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ARKLATEX - The Storm Prediction Center has maintained a SLIGHT risk (level 2 out of 5) for severe storms overnight across portions of Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Oklahoma. Scattered severe thunderstorms capable of producing very large hail and severe wind gusts are our primary hazards.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/03/Screenshot 2025-03-12 211244-1741835626844.png">The risk of severe storms through tonight is due to a shortwave from California that was<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.weathernationtv.com/news/weekend-rain-snow-for-the-west"> responsible for rainfall in southern California.</a><h2>Forecast Timing</h2>Storms have moved quickly ahead of a cold front and are expected to head east as a complex of storms overnight and into Thursday. <video src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/03/03-12 hrrr through thursday-1741835697532.mp4" controls="true" width="100%"></video>This shortwave will progress east into Alabama by Thursday before wrapping up. Thursday's SPC outlook is a MARGINAL risk (level 1 out of 5) for severe storms.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/03/Screenshot 2025-03-12 140433-1741810444581.png">This severe weather threat is a precursor to our wave, which will bring additional severe weather chances by the end of the week and into the weekend in similar areas. For more on the late-week severe threat be sure to read this related article: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.weathernationtv.com/news/monster-storm-system-looms-this-week">Monster Storm System Looms End of Week</a>

Storms Head East Overnight and Into South Thursday

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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>

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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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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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The Upper Midwest is no stranger to snow. Another winter storm moved through the area on Tuesday and dumped more powder across the region.

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Snow bands set up and dropped several inches of snow. A few cities even set daily snowfall records Tuesday too. Many of the new records shattered the previous ones. Wausau, WI set a new record that was almost 4" greater than the previous record from 1923.

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This snow started to break out across Montana Monday morning and slowly pushes east. Even Sioux Falls, SD set a new record snowfall on Tuesday.

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While some spots may not have set new snowfall records, many still saw some extremely impressive amounts of the 3rd of April.

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More snow is possible for the Upper Midwest as we end the week. This may leave a lot of you asking, "Where is spring?"

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For WeatherNation, Meteorologist Kate Mantych

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Record Snow Tuesday Across the Upper Midwest

Cross Country Storm Begins in California

Despite recent storms, California's snowpack

High Winds Ignite Wildfire Concerns This Week

It's been incredibly dry over parts of the Lo

Monster Storm System Looms End of Week

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

More Snow on the Way for Ski Country

FOUR CORNERS - The same system that will brin

Storms Head East Overnight and Into South Thursday

ARKLATEX - The Storm Prediction Center has ma

Total Lunar Eclipse "Blood Moon" Happening This Week

Don't miss the total lunar eclipse this week

EF-2 Tornado Passed Through Florida Monday Morning

A preliminary EF-2 rating was given to a torn