Speaker 1: 0:00

Hi, this is meteorologist Steve Pelletierian. I'm the Weatherman. Thanks for checking into theweathermanpodcom on your Friday. It is the 17th day in the month of January 2025. And a little bit of a break for much of the central and eastern portion of the nation from all the cold let's short-lived. There's a big area of high pressure moving right down out of central Canada, central and western Canada, down through Alberta and then through Saskatchewan and it's going to be moving across the Dakotas. That cold front associated with that that will be arriving here sometime on Sunday. Now, initially the cold here is not that bad, but once it gets entrenched it looks like temperatures on Monday, inauguration Day and Dr Martin Luther King Day Holiday Monday is going to be generally in the 20s, but only in the teens to near 20 degrees in places like New York City, baltimore 20 to 25, dc also in the low to middle 20s Boston area, probably only in the middle teens. So progressively north, colder, progressively south, still all below freezing, and that's going to be on Monday, tuesday and Wednesday of this upcoming week. So we've got some very cold weather coming our way. Now, once that front moves through, a secondary area of low pressure is going to form along the front, probably across the Tennessee Valley and that could bring some snow once again from DC, baltimore, new York, philly and even up into the Boston area at all Depends on the timing and the amount of intensity once the storm gets to the eastern seaboard. But that will be sometime Sunday night, early Monday. Then the high pressure moves in with very cold readings right through midweek.

Speaker 1: 1:23

If you're flying on this Friday we've got generally clear conditions in the New York area. The winds are on the lighter side. Looks like decent up in Boston, no problems out in Cleveland and down in Atlanta Looks like some rain is moving in there, but that doesn't look like low IFR weather, so no major delays into the Atlanta area. Charlotte also looking fair. Dallas-fort Worth a little warm front might be bringing some scattered showers there and also in the Houston area some occasional light rain and fog. So some slight delays into Houston. Central and South Florida looking fairly good, although there will be some thunderstorms. From Miami across to the Keys and over also to Fort Myers at RSW Looking out to the West Coast continued dry conditions from LA all the way up to the Washington and Portland area Looks like that weather will continued dry conditions from LA all the way up to the Washington and Portland area Looks like that weather will remain dry, with high pressure. It's just off to the west and northwest of Washington and Oregon and that's going to be moving in. There is an upper-level low-pressure system just north of San Francisco that may take a position over the central and southern portion of the Four Corners region. That may set up a little bit of a sand and wind, but it doesn't look too bad at this point.

Speaker 1: 2:26

Now we've been talking about Los Angeles and its water situation. Basically they get very, very little rainfall from, I would say, april, may, june, july, august, september those are the months we usually have the wildfires Hardly any rainfall whatsoever. September and October. It starts to pick up a bit as you get towards November and December, but still probably under about a couple of inches in the LA Basin, and you get your most amount of rainfall in January into early February. Now we haven't seen that much rainfall there. But when you consider that an area that houses 9 million people and that large using water that comes down from the Sierra Nevada and eastern sections of northern California it's a tough go and you know everything gets fairly brittle and the burning does always result when you just have a start of a wildfire. It's very hard to contain.

Speaker 1: 3:21

So we're going to talk about that aqueduct. That aqueduct was 100 years old in 2013. It was the brainchild of a guy named Mulholland, and now they've also had some other aqueducts that they built into the LA area to supply them with water. That's where they get most of their groundwater. The LA River basically only exists half the time and is fairly polluted and under concrete as well. There are some other streams and tributaries too, especially up in the San Gabriels. However, for the most part, la is fed by an aqueduct system and is basically a very, very dry place, except for the winter months.

Speaker 1: 3:55

I'm your geologist, steve Pelletier, and I am the weatherman. We'll talk more about the aqueduct system in LA and why that came about and where you can see it. If you're out that place yesterday I talked to us about the 405 and 101 you can see that cascading water coming down the concrete aerators. In other words, it comes from the top of this hill and then it has to go through the concrete. What it does is it aerates the water. That's why it looks so foamy when it comes on down and then eventually goes into the reservoir system and then into the la water table water system before everyone pumped up into the top of those water towers, which increases or causes the pressure to stay steady. And then, of course, when we had the fires, uh, those towers were depleted, couldn't fill them up fast enough and that's why they didn't have enough water to battle those fires. We'll talk more about that as the weekend, as we get into the weekend, saturday and Sunday.

Speaker 1: 4:49

In the meantime, I hope you have a great Friday. It looks like some cold weather coming in next week, so get ready to bundle up and plan your week accordingly. It's going to be very, very cold out of doors Monday through at least Wednesday or Thursday of next week. I'm Steve Pelletierian and I am the weatherman. Hope you have a great day today. A little cold sound, a little raspy, but we'll get over that. We'll talk to you first thing on Saturday, take care.