11/9/2013 Daily Update: Good Start to Veterans Day Weekend, Haiyan Death Toll Rises

Good morning everyone!

A quiet, autumn day to start Veterans Day Weekend. Winds increase tomorrow... low pressure could produce snow showers across Northern New England. Not expecting much in Southern New England besides a shower or two.

TODAY: Partly sunny with highs in the mid 40s. Winds from the SW at 5 mph.

TONIGHT: Mostly cloudy with lows in the mid 30s. Winds from the S at 5 mph.

TOMORROW: Partly sunny, perhaps a spot shower. Highs in the low 50s. Breezy with winds from the W at 5 to 15 mph, gusting over 30 mph.

SNE SNOWFALL CONTEST

• The contest has officially started! Three towns in Western MA had accumulating snowfall yesterday morning. Check the current results on the left panels.

NATIONAL WEATHER

• Mostly quiet across the nation. Low pressure in the Great Lakes are producing rain and snow showers and a few showers for the Northwest otherwise not much else is going on.
• Milder air in the south, cooler across the north and the Midwest

WORLD WEATHER

• As feared, the death toll has risen... Super Typhoon Haiyan has claimed more than 100 lives in the Philippines. News is only going to get worse. Dead bodies could be seen lying outside in the open. Awful.
• Haiyan is expected to hit Vietnam on Sunday. It is weakening though still a modest Category 3 storm that can pack a punch.
• A short-lived tropical cyclone in the Arabian Sea formed and it is headed for Oman.
• Breaks in the action for Europe but showers and storms continue to linger especially in the U.K.
• A few showers/storms in northern and eastern Australia, otherwise mostly dry.

Haiyan - the storm that will go down as one of the strongest
in recorded history (Credit: CIMSS)

EARTHQUAKES

• There were no earthquakes rated at or above M6 since the last update yesterday.

SPACE WEATHER

• The solar wind has ramped up to 500-600 km/sec signaling an arrival of a CME. High latitudes be alert for auroras.
• Flaring has calmed down following the latest X-flare but still plenty of potential with 1890 in an Earth-facing position. Also, a new sunspot, 1893, can be seen on the eastern limb and does appear like it could do something. Chances of an M-class flare in the next 24 hours: 60%. X-class flares: 30%.

Credit: SpaceWeather.com