Tuesday, November 9, 2010

[FEMA]

Homeland Security Threat Level: YELLOW (ELEVATED)

Significant National Weather

West:
A frontal system will continue to move east from the Rockies into the Plains. There will be gusty winds, rain and snow across eastern Montana, Wyoming and Colorado with up to a foot of snow in the higher elevations. Another storm system will bring rain and heavy mountain snow across the Pacific Northwest including more than an inch of rain in the coastal range and the lower portions of the Olympics and Oregon Cascades.
Midwest:
A cold front from the Plains states will bring light rain and the possibility of wet snow to the western Dakotas and western Nebraska. Southerly winds will be gusty ahead of the front and northwest winds will be blustery behind it with gusts in excess of 50 mph in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
Northeast:
Showers will linger across eastern Upstate New York and New England and bring another half inch of rain to northern Maine and offshore Massachusetts. Cape Cod and Nantucket, MA will continue to experience gusty winds with some likely to be 45-50 mph.
South:
Much of the South will continue to experience dry or drought conditions and low humidity and gusty winds will heighten fire dangers. Sunshine is expected from the Lower Mississippi Valley eastward, while some cloudiness is expected across the Southern Plains. Gusty winds, possibly exceeding 55 mph, are expected across Oklahoma and Texas.
(NOAA and media sources)
Tropical Weather Outlook

Atlantic, Caribbean Sea, and Gulf of Mexico
Area 1
A nearly stationary low pressure system located about 8o miles north of Aruba and Curacao is producing cloudiness and scattered thunderstorms over the central and northeastern Caribbean Sea. Environmental conditions are currently and only marginally favorable and development, if any, of this disturbance should be slow to occur during the next couple of days. There is a low chance (10%) of this system becoming a tropical cyclone during the next 48 hours.
Central, Eastern, and Western Pacific
Tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next 48 hours.
(NOAA, JTWC)
Earthquake Activity

No new activity (FEMA HQ)
Wildfire Update

Wildfire National Preparedness: Level 1
National Fire Activity as of Monday, November 8, 2010:
Initial attack activity: light (17 new fires), new large fires: 2, large fires contained: 3
Uncontained large fires: 4, U.S. States affected: KY, OK, and AR
(NIFC)
Fire Management Assistance Grant (FMAG)
No activity.
(HQ FEMA)
Disaster Declaration Activity

No new activity (FEMA HQ)
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