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Hi, this is meteorologist Steve Pelletier and I am the Weatherman. Thanks for checking into theweathermanpodcom on your Wednesday. It is the Ides of January already halfway through the month of January, can you believe it? And well, it's a very cold pattern across much of the central and eastern portion of the nation. That will continue for the next couple of days. We'll get a little break across the northeast and then another outbreak of very cold air coming right down from central Canada. We'll be plunging down to the Gulf of Mexico and into the east. In the meantime the west coast, dealing with the Santa Ana winds in central and southern California and big areas of high pressure. Now the high pressure circulation is in a clockwise direction. So the center of those highs is going to be over eastern Oregon, over Idaho, over Utah and northwestern sections of Colorado. So the circulation will come down to the top of those areas of high pressure and then out from the south east towards the northwest to the bottom of that and that brings it right across New Mexico, arizona and then into southern sections of Nevada. Then eventually, with an upper-level low-pressure system, it means that there's going to be an increase of an east by slightly southeast wind becoming northeast wind right around the Los Angeles County area, meaning that the Santa Ana wind will be back and forth on and off over the next several days.

Speaker 1: 1:25

Now a lot of people talk about Los Angeles being a desert city, and there's a lot of things written about that. That is not true. It is true so on and so forth. I'm just going to give you one thing about Los Angeles. In the beginning, when Los Angeles started back into the 1800s, of course first by the Spaniards and then eventually when the US took over from the Spanish-American War, there is the Los Angeles River. The river actually basically starts around the San Gabriel Mountains, which are off to the east and northeast from around Burbank, and then you go a little bit northwest of there that's where the origins of the Los Angeles River are and it moves down across to Burbank and then down go a little bit northwest of there that's where the origins of the Los Angeles River are and it moves down across to Burbank and then down right in through where central Los Angeles is. Now the river actually flows maybe three-quarters of the time of the year, naturally I'm just talking about naturally at this point, and we're going to actually start to build on this over the next several days. So, with that in mind, when the city first started back in the 17th, 18th century, there was a river there and very close to the river banks it was green and it was nice and they were able to grow some things. There were also some floods. There were also some dry periods. The dry periods the river actually dried up and during the wet periods it actually flooded. So that's where we're going to start, right there. So just keep that in mind.

Speaker 1: 2:49

We have just great metropolis. What is it? The second largest in the United States. We start off in New York, then LA, then Philadelphia, then down to Atlanta, dallas and Chicago area. Of course, I think Chicago is number four, but more and more. I'm just trying to get you an idea.

Speaker 1: 3:07

Let's start talking about what the whole weather situation and that whole pattern in Southern California deals with as far as the history of the development of the city and water. Water is very important and we're going to be talking about that over the next several days. Not much water across the Mid-Atlantic and water Water is very important and we'll be talking about that over the next several days. Not much water across the mid-Atlantic and northeast. Actually, this month of January from DC up to the Boston area has been dry. There has been some pretty good storms moving out of the Gulf of Mexico. They're going to be moving across through Alabama, mississippi, georgia into the Carolinas and southern Virginia over the next couple of days and maybe even some rain for the northeast sometime on Saturday.

Speaker 1: 3:47

But then we get back into some sharply colder weather as we head towards next week, inauguration week, starting with Dr Martin Luther King Day on Monday, the 20th, and then very cold weather for most of the Tennessee Valley, east of the Carolinas and into the northeast because of that cold outbreak coming. Then, weather-wise for the northeast we are looking at generally fair skies. For Wednesday Temperatures are 32. Thursday an increase in clouds up to about 30 to 35. Maybe some snow showers. That's a little warm front poking through. So Friday looks pretty good up to near 40. And then maybe some rainy weather for the northeast on Saturday, but mostly from Jersey south down into the Virginias and the Carolinas. And then, as we head towards Sunday, that next outbreak of cold air starts to move in. Could bring in some snow showers and squalls early next week.

Speaker 1: 4:36

On Monday, if you're flying on this Wednesday, it does look like dry conditions in Atlanta and in Charlotte, also dry weather in Houston and also Dallas, amarillo and El Paso, of course, dry conditions, but with those strong winds starting to develop down in LA. San Francisco is looking dry, also dry in Oregon and Portland and up in Washington State and very cold but dry in the Chicago area. Cleveland will have some snow showers, buffalo will have snow showers, syracuse and Albany light snow and snow showers and maybe across much of central and northern New England Outside of that, just typical mid-January weather. I'll be back on Thursday to give you our next installment on our look at LA, their water and their origins and then their development over the late 19th and 20th century and how we got to where we are today. Talk to you then. Have a great day today.