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Weather Whirlwind: Navigating This Week's Storms from the Mississippi Valley to the East Coast

Stephen Pellettiere
Speaker 1:

Hi, this is meteorologist Steve Pelletieri and I am the Weatherman. Thanks for checking into theweathermanpodcom on your Wednesday. It is the 29th day in the month of January, very quickly coming to the month's end and we've got that all important. Groundhog's Day, sunday. And will Poxitoni Phil say his shadow? I don't know, because there will be clouds and sun and the possibility of some rain and snow showers, and it seems like Phil has a mind of his own. It doesn't really matter whether or not the sun is shining on him at this point, so we'll have to just wait to see for that. Either way, on the records we're going to have continuation of winter into the month of February because we see the warm and the cold is going to be battling north and south, from the central Mississippi River Valley southward and then moving back north up towards the Great Lakes as far as where it's going to be cold and where it's going to be warmer. That means that the storm path is going to be taking a path probably over the south-central Mississippi River Valley right up to the northeast, and that will make some very big storms for the eastern seaboard during the month of February, as is typical. So our weather situation for today? Well. Generally for the northeast corridor we have very windy conditions. The winds are starting to kick up out of the west and southwest. Some of the wind gusts up to about 45 miles per hour. Strong cold front will be arriving and as it moves on through the northwest, winds and even the possibility of some snow flurries and rain and snow showers will be with much of New York State, northwestern Pennsylvania and central and southern New England. But across the northeast corridor it's just going to be partly sunny, windy, highs mid 40s turning colder at night 20 to 25 and then on Thursday mostly sunny. Thursday's highs will range between about 32 and 37, so it will colder. But that freezing rain arrives on Thursday night from probably Baltimore DC all the way up into the Boston area and it will change slowly over to some rain by the middle portion of Friday. Then a clearing trend for Saturday of the weekend.

Speaker 1:

If you are flying on this Wednesday, it looks like the weather situation is looking pretty good down to Atlanta and Charlotte and central and south Florida. Big rainstorm over central Texas is going to be slowly drifting eastward and that will cause rainy conditions in Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth today. So there will be some delays, for that Doesn't look like too much of a delay. In the Chicago area the weather is looking pretty good, maybe a few snow flurries up with a lot of cloud cover. Up in Minneapolis, st Paul, west Coast showing dry weather from San Diego up to LA, up to San Francisco. Also dry in the Pacific Northwest as well, the snowy conditions all around four corners, that's the states of Utah, colorado, new Mexico and Arizona, and that rainy weather from that system will be moving into the central Mississippi River Valley by the evening hours on Wednesday and early Thursday. I'm your host, steve Pelletier, and I am the weatherman. Hope you have a great day today. Talk to you first thing on Thursday. Take care.