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National Situation Update: Sunday, November 6, 2005

Homeland Security Threat Level: YELLOW (ELEVATED).

Weather Across The Nation

A frontal system is moving into the Pacific Northwest. High pressure dominates weather over the Southwest and Midwest. A low is centered over the Great Lakes with a cold front extending southwest to Texas.

West: The frontal system will slide slowly southward along the West Coast today, moving the heaviest precipitation into southern Oregon, northern California, and the northern Rockies. Snow levels will range from 2500 feet in the Washington Cascades to 6000 feet in the Siskiyous of northern California. Accumulations could be on the order of a foot or more in these areas and the Bitterroots and Tetons of Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho. Winds will gust to over 50 mph lowering visibilities and causing significant drifting of snow.

Midwest: The low pressure over the northern Great Lakes will produce snow in parts of Michigan's Upper Peninsula and northern Wisconsin. Northwest winds of 20 to 30 mph are forecast for the Upper Peninsula of Michigan south to Chicago.

South: The cold front extending from the low over the Great lakes will produce strong winds over the southern Appalachians during the afternoon along with rain and isolated thunderstorms.

Northeast: The frontal system will produce rain and isolated thunderstorms from Upstate New York southward into the Middle Atlantic. High temperatures will remain near or above seasonal averages. (NWS, Media sources)

Recovery of Electric Service in Florida

Florida power and Light (FPL) has provided the following power restoration data, and full restoration dates, weather permitting, of the remaining 270,500 outages (reduced from 369,400 November 4), as of 9:00 pm EST November 5:

Tropical Activity

There are no tropical cyclones in the Atlantic, Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, Eastern Pacific or Central Pacific Ocean.(NHC/TPC, Joint Typhoon Warning Center)

Earthquake Activity

In the past 24 hours there have been 8 minor earthquakes in Alaska and 2 in California, the most significant a 4.0 magnitude in the Alaska Peninsula. No injuries or damages were reported. (USDOI/USGS, National Earthquake Information Center)

Preliminary Damage Assessments

No new activity. (FEMA HQ)

Disaster Declaration Activity

No new activity.(FEMA HQ)