Monday, January 24, 2011

[FEMA]

Homeland Security Threat Level: YELLOW (ELEVATED)

Significant National Weather

West
Gusty winds will continue across Montana and Wyoming but decrease across Southern California. Rain and mountain snow are expected from Washington to northwest Montana and the higher elevations of the Cascades may see more than a foot of snow. A few showers will extend southward into Oregon and southern Idaho. Santa Ana winds will return to Southern California by Wednesday.
South
A frontal system will remain stationary just off the Texas coast today will bring thunderstorms and almost two inches of rainfall to the Gulf Coast. Tomorrow and Wednesday the storm will develop as it moves along the Gulf Coast to the Carolinas producing widespread rain. Some areas could receive up to 3 inches. The northern portion of this band of precipitation will fall as snow from Arkansas and northern Mississippi to the southern Appalachians.
Midwest
Most of the region will be dry but a clipper system dropping out of Canada will produce a few inches of snow across the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes with heavier accumulations in Upper Michigan.
Northeast
A dry arctic high pressure system will produce temperatures from near average to over 30 degrees below average. High temperatures will reach near zero in northern Maine to the low 40s in Virginia.
This evening, snow will fall across western New York and western Pennsylvania from a clipper system over the Great Lakes. Late tonight and tomorrow, snow will fall from New York to New England and accumulations of one to four inches are possible.
(NOAA and various media sources)Â*
Tropical Cyclone Wilma

At 4:00 a.m. EST, the center of Tropical Cyclone Wilma was located 115 miles south of Pago Pago, American Samoa. Wilma is moving southwest at 13 mph with maximum sustained winds at 63 mph or higher. All Warnings and Watches for American Samoa are cancelled. The American Samoa Territorial Emergency Management Coordinating Office (TEMCO) has been activated. Power is restored to most of eastern Tutuila but remaining power outages are affecting water pumps and creating water outages. A Boil Water Notice is in effect for all of Tutuila. The islands of Olosega, Tau, and Ofu are without power with no current estimate when power will be restored. Power outages have also been reported on Masefau. The Department of Education now has 17 shelters open with 637 occupants. Five shelters have not yet reported their shelter numbers. The airport will remain closed through at least noon local time on Monday, January 25, 2011. Cellular communications are fully operational on all islands but landline service is intermittent in some areas. No public safety radio outages have been reported.
FEMA Region IX is at Watch/Steady State and monitoring the situation and is actively coordinated with local and federal partners to provide support as needed. FEMA Region IX has been in continuous contact with the FEMA Liaison in TEMCO (American Samoa Emergency Operations Center). There are no requests for logistics support or FEMA assistance at this time.
(FEMA Region IX, JTWC, NOAA)Â*
Earthquake Activity

No significant activity.
(USGS)

Stay informed of FEMAâs activities online: videos and podcasts available at www.fema.gov/medialibrary and www.youtube.com/fema; follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/fema and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/fema.
Preliminary Damage Assessments

No new activity (FEMA HQ)
Disaster Declaration Activity

No new activity (FEMA HQ)


More...