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Hi, this is meteorologist Steve Pelletier and I am the weatherman. Thanks for checking into theweathermanpodcom on your Wednesday. It's the 8th day of January 2025 and the cold has that grip on the north and northeast. Looks like it's going to continue at least a couple more days. Note is mostly across New England and eastern Canada. It's a strong north wind coming right down out of central and eastern Canada. When it comes down to Hudson Valley and to New York City it's some of the coldest but driest weather that you can have. We're still seeing a lot of those lake effect snow showers and squalls, but they're mainly to the south of Lake Erie in Ontario and to the slight south to southeast of Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, and that means, with the drying conditions, a lot of them just don't make it too far south, just very close to the lakes. So the weather for the northeast card from DC, say, up to New York and up to the Boston area, calling for fair, cold weather again on Wednesday. Wednesday night temperatures will be back into the teens Highs on Wednesday 25 to 30. Nighttime lows mid to upper teens. Those strong winds out of the north, northwest Windchill factor temperatures making it feel like the teens in single digits Unexposed skins. So it's real bundle-up weather for Wednesday, wednesday night, down into the middle teens. Thursday the winds will be a little bit lighter, see that high pressure starting to drift a little bit further eastern, so temperatures will range close to 30, but still with gusty winds out of the north. By Friday highs could get up into the middle 30s and then we're watching an area of low pressure that's forming around the Gulf. It'll move up a little in the eastern seaboard and could give the mid-Atlantic and northeast area once again a little bit of light snow, about 1 to as much as 4 or 5 inches. It all depends on tracking. If it stays closer to the coast it could be a bigger storm. If it goes further offshore, maybe just some snow flurries for the northeast.

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Now, if you're traveling on this Wednesday, we see that Atlanta is going to be fair, dry but cold. Also fair weather across central and southern Florida where temperatures have been below normal over the last several days. Charlotte-johan, fair, also with colder than normal conditions. Newark-new York, because of that strong wind that usually slows things down into the Newark area because of their runway configuration, but no problem at JFK. Laguardia, also generally about the same situation as Newark, some light delays because of the strong winds. As you look out to Chicago, most of the snow showers are around the eastern section of Lake Michigan, so Chicago's going to be fine. Also fine, but very cold up in Minneapolis-St Paul, dry in Houston, maybe some showers. Moving into Texas, into the Dallas-Fort Worth area later in the day on Wednesday and out on the west coast it is dry across the Pacific Northwest where it has been a lot of rain, a lot of storms but lots of snow across the western Dakotas and eastern Montana.

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Of course the big note is the wildfires that are coming down out of the hills to the east of Los Angeles and it looks like that's because of the Santa Ana wind. Low pressure sets up just over the northern Baja Peninsula of Mexico, just where California and Mexico join, and also right around where the northwestern corner of Mexico. That low pressure causes a strong east wind. When it comes downslope out of the mountains it's very dry and very strong. Some of those wind gusts were up to 60 to 70 miles per hour. Of course that just drives the fires. If a fire starts, it drives it in a direction that the wind is going from where the wind is to where the wind is going, in this case going right down just to the north of Malibu. Those wildfires, hopefully, will get contained over the next several days, but the winds are still going to continue for a little while longer. But for the most part, just cold in the east and the wildfires in the west. We've got lots of weather across the nation on this eighth day of January. No-transcript.