Good Monday Morning,

Prolonged and Powerful Kona Storm to Bring Numerous Impacts Across Hawaii This Week into Next Weekend. Very heavy rain will bring flash flooding to the islands along with very gusty winds. This is an extremely rare event for the month of March in Hawaii. Significant storm to impact the Canadian Maritimes from Wednesday night through Thursday afternoon with freezing rain/rain and heavy snow likely.

Critical weather days / geomagnetic storm outlook – no critical weather days nor geomagnetic storms are forecast through Wednesday.

CONUS severe weather outlook – Tuesday looks to be very active from the STL area to the ORD area with all types of severe weather hazards possible. By late afternoon into the evening hours several reroutes will be likely from Southern MI to Western TX. On Wednesday look for a repeat with significant enroute delays possible from Western NY to Eastern TX in association with the cold front and a well-defined upper level trough.

Tropical weather outlook – invest area 95W, 75 miles NE of YAP has a medium chance of developing over the next 24 hours.

Europe outlook – on Wednesday look for a fairly strong occluded/cold front to lie from the Benelux region to extreme Northern Spain. Accompanying the front will be periods of showers. A much stronger cold front will pass through the UK Thursday night into Friday and will move quickly through much of Western France during the day on Friday bringing gusty winds and a much colder air mass to much of Western Europe with a few snow showers possible even at lower elevations.

North Atlantic Jet stream – by mid-week a strong zonal flow will persist with the primary jet stream from central Quebec to Ireland with peak velocities of 135 knots over Eastern Canada. Look for little change on Thursday.

Images courtesy of wxcharts.com, pivotal weather.com, tropical tidbits.com, UK met office, Weather prediction center, Environment Canada, weathernerds.org, Tomer tropical weather and the joint typhoon warning center.