Notable Weather — Oct 23, 2026: Floods, Record Warmth, King Tides, Bering Storm

Two seasons on one map. A deep October low over the Southwest has been pulling tropical moisture north for two days: Albuquerque's Thursday balloon measured 1.08 inches of water vapor in the column, a record for the date, and rivers across Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah are rising. The San Juan at Shiprock is forecast to crest near 17.3 feet against a 15.5-foot flood stage, and the Animas at Farmington should top out at 11 feet, matching its May 1941 crest. Tucson's forecast office called it a rare October severe setup — rotating supercells, golf-ball hail at Hurley, New Mexico, and a 73 mph gust near Safford, Arizona. Southern California got the other half of the same storm, with daily rain records at Big Bear, Riverside and Escondido, plus two mountain towns logging their coolest October 22 daytime highs on record. East of the Rockies it is a different season. A 590-decameter ridge over Texas is holding a summer pattern in place: Rapid City tied 1915 at 81 degrees, Baker, Montana beat a 2003 record at 77, and Friday runs warmer still before a cold front arrives with 55 mph gusts and takes Rapid City from the low 80s into the 40s and 50s. On the East Coast, high pressure over Ontario is steering the year's highest astronomical tides — the peak King Tide at Miami Sunday into Monday, 6.9 feet at Charleston Harbor and 8.9 at Fort Pulaski — right on top of onshore flow. Alaska is on its second Bering Sea storm in a week, with 75 mph gusts on the Kuskokwim Delta and a blizzard warning for eastern Norton Sound. And in the Pacific, the Hurricane Center is tracking a low near the date line while Tropical Storm Vance is forecast to become a major hurricane off Mexico. Notable Weather is a short briefing on the weather that makes news — records, extremes, and the pattern that connects them — built from National Weather Service area forecast discussions, hydrologic outlooks and record event reports, and the National Hurricane Center. Runtime 6:58. Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:24 Four Corners river flooding 1:36 Supercells, hail, and a 73 mph gust 2:20 Southern California rain records 3:02 Texas ridge and Plains record warmth 3:59 The cold front that ends it 4:16 Montana high wind, Upper Midwest fog 4:43 Northeast: sunshine and first frost 5:07 East Coast king tides 5:50 Alaska: second Bering Sea storm 6:31 Hawaii, tropics, and territories 6:50 Close Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/weather-across-america--4910617/support. This episode includes AI-generated content.