NOAA's National Weather Service HeadlinesLatest weather and climate headlines from NOAA's National Weather Service...Fires Continue Across Parts of Florida...Georgia...Minnesota...New Jersey...and Arizona...- May 16, 2007 Nation-wide, since Jan 1 2007 more than 892,000 acres have been burned by fires. In Florida and south Goergia, smoke from wildfires have closed highways and threaten numerous structures. NWS Incident Meteorologists have been providing forecast and weather briefing support.http://www.nifc.gov/fireinfo/nfn.html ...Serious Flooding Continues in Central U.S....- May 11, 2007 Moderate to major flooding continues on rivers in parts of Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and South Dakota. Major flooding is occurring at some points along the Grand River in Missouri, the James River in South Dakota, the Missouri River in Missouri and Kansas and the Platte River in Missouri.http://beta.noaawatch.noaa.gov/floods.php/ ...Andrea Weakens...- May 10, 2007 Andrea has weakened to a Subtropical Depression. The Tropical Storm Watch has been discontinued.http://www.noaawatch.gov/2007/andrea.php ...Weekend Severe Weather...- May 7, 2007 Severe thunderstorms affected primarily the central and southern plains since Friday with widely scattered reports across the Southeast and Mid Atlantic . There have been approximately 683 reports of severe weather since Friday afternoon with close to 140 of those being tornadoes. The potent storm system also brought widespread flooding from torrential rainshttp://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/yesterday.html |