Speaker 1: 0:00

Hi, this is meteorologist Steve Pelletier and I'm the weatherman. Thanks for checking into the weathermanpodcom on your Friday, third day of the month of January 2025. It looks like the nation's taking up a wintry scene. High pressure is building south from the Dakotas and the western Great Lakes. It's spilling down right through the central plains and the central Mississippi River Valley. That's causing colder temperatures below normal readings from Kentucky down to Tennessee, even into Alabama, mississippi and even down as far as the Gulf Coast. Well, that high-pressure system is going to be building eastward Yet another frontal system currently working its way across the northern Great Lakes. We'll be arriving in the east and will reinforce the cold air. It's always bringing a lot of snow shower and snow flow reaction. That's just the east of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario and the eastern portions of Lake Michiganie and Lake Ontario and the eastern portions of Lake Michigan, huron and Superior, and that looks like that'll continue right in through Saturday as that cold weather continues to filter down from Canada. In the meantime, out in the west, you know those big storms that are moving into the Pacific Northwest when they go over the Rockies, over Idaho, eastern sections of Washington and Oregon State and then into Montana and the Dakotas and now even into Nebraska and Iowa. There's going to be some heavy snows and blizzard conditions across South Dakota and much of Montana, much of western sections of Wyoming, northern Utah, including Salt Lake City, and also just about a good portion of central and northern Idaho. That storm will eventually spill into the central plain states and die out just a bit, but possibly arrive in the eastern seaboard and give the nation's capital the possibility of maybe a foot of snow. Sometime on Sunday night or on Monday it may move a little bit further north, maybe a little bit further south, but right now the central and eastern portion of the weekend and central portion of the nation is going to be under fair but cold conditions right through the weekend, through Sunday, and that storm will be arriving in the eastern seaboard. Right now, though, it's pretty good blizzard conditions in Montana, our high temperatures in New York probably getting up to about 35 to 40. Dc up to around 40. Boston area low to mid 30s, all with fair skies and a few snow showers or flurries. Off to the west and north the Poconos and the Catskills. Looking ahead to Saturday, it'll be mostly sunny and a little bit colder 30 to 35. And Sunday sunshine, then that increasing clouds. There is the possibility of some snow in Philadelphia and New York City, but on the lighter side most of the heavier snows look at this point to be in Baltimore and DC, but we'll have more on that as the weekend continues. Check into the withermanpodcom. On both Saturday and Sunday We'll update you on that.

Speaker 1: 2:26

Mid-atlantic and northeast weather. If you are flying on this Friday it looks like gusty conditions in Newark, new York, probably slowing things down just a bit. See, newark has this 1129 runway that they have to use when the winds are strong out of the northwest, and sometimes they'll approach the southwest runway and then break it off, go over Jersey City and then right in there. It tends to slow things down because it's not a parallel runway. Similar situation over in New York and also at, of course, jfk has so many runways there it doesn't seem to be a bigger problem, but it does cause a lot of low-level turbulence. So there will be some delays in and around that area. Baltimore and DC not so much. It looks. So there will be some delays in and around that area. Baltimore and DC not so much. Looks like decent conditions there.

Speaker 1: 3:07

Boston also looking pretty good, atlanta's dry, charlotte's dry, much of central and south Florida, although turning a little bit colder. Over the next several days we're going to get some of this colder air. The weather situation is going to be dry and no problems flying into there. Houston some fog and showers. Dallas-fort Worth generally good weather. Chicago just cold and windy and no problems aviation-wise there. Minneapolis, st Paul okay right now but it could be some snow moving in later. Saturday and Sunday West Coast dry, san Diego, la and San Francisco, but rainy weather in Portland and Seattle. I'm meteorologist Steve Pelletieria and I am the weatherman Check in throughout this weekend. We'll give you that storm movement across the nation's midsection Could be affecting the Northeast Corridor sometime Sunday night and Monday. Hope you have a great weekend, take care.