Halloween weather is minimally spooky in much of United States

Melissa is finally exiting stage right. In its place, there’s not a whole lot of high impact weather around the United States heading into the weekend. Exceptions are in the Pacific Northwest and parts of the Northeast.

Weather watch

Trick-or-treat. It’ll be a chilly Halloween in much of the country, but many places will also see dry weather for trick-or-treating. Wind advisories are in effect for southern New England, New York and into the northern Mid-Atlantic. Gusts as high as 50-plus mph will impact much of that region in the wake of a powerful storm working toward northern New England. With the chilly air in the area, frost advisories were hoisted from northern Alabama to western North Carolina.

Bye, Melissa. Melissa passed Bermuda after causing minimal damage and about 20,000 power outages at peak. The storm is in the process of rapidly losing tropical characteristics. It will swing close to Newfoundland as a powerful extratropical storm featuring heavy rain, strong wind and large waves.

Stormy Pacific Northwest. One of the places seeing unfriendly weather on Halloween is the Seattle to Portland zone. It’s the first of several storms to hit the region over the next week. A level 3 or 4 atmospheric river is associated with the first wave, and next week’s may be even stronger. Up to 1-3 inches of rain is forecast over the next few days with more to come thereafter.

Lightning links

Photos Begin To Capture The Widespread Destruction Caused By Hurricane Melissa. (The Weather Channel)

Hurricane Melissa death toll rises as aid struggles to reach parts of Jamaica. (Will Grant, Nick Davis and Brandon Drenon, BBC)

Record Vietnam floods kill 10, turn streets into canals. (Agence France Presse)

Flash flooding kills 2 in New York City as powerful storm system now blasts region with strong winds. (Hayley Vawter, Alexandra Myers and Scott Sistek)

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