Speaker 0: 0:00

Hi, this is meteorologist Steve Pelletier and I am the weatherman. Thanks for checking into theweathermanpodcom. On this Sunday, it's Groundhog Day and we're looking at a weather situation which will bring a little bit of rain and snow to the northeast. Actually, it's going to be more snow north of, say, the I-80 corridor that extends from Pennsylvania right in through New Jersey and then ultimately ends at the city right in through New Jersey and then ultimately ends at the city. North of there, a good possibility of some snow for Sunday night, but just according to an inch South of there, maybe some rain showers. Central and southern New Jersey, down into Delaware and also into Maryland, there's a possibility of some rain showers, but really the farther south you go, just dry, milder conditions. This basically represents a little warm front moving through the region on Sunday evening. But early on Sunday, when Puxatoni Phil is supposed to see his shadow or not see his shadow, when they pull him out of the home or the house that he has there in Puxatoni, pennsylvania, he'll probably not see his shadow because it's going to be sunny or, on the flip side, see his shadow because it's cloudy. I know that sounds stupid because you know, hey, the sun is going to make a shadow. But every year I've seen situations where it's perfectly clear there and the officials from Poxitone make their own prediction of whether it's going to be extra time for the wintertime or if the early spring is coming.

Speaker 0: 1:19

Weather-wise, what I'm seeing here for the month of February is we see a split flow. I'm seeing here for the month of February is we see a split flow, that path of low pressures and that caused snow for the first time in like 25 years in southern Louisiana, alabama, mississippi, the northern panhandle of Florida and even up into the Carolinas. Well, that line has actually shifted further north now and that means that it's going to be warmer over the southern states, especially as we get into the month of February, because the cold is going to be starting to wane towards the end of the month. The sun is getting higher into the sky, rising earlier each and every day, setting later each and every day. More sunshine, more warmth and eventually it starts to work its way through. But we do see that a storm track basically extending from just over the central portion of the US, north of, say, st Louis and southern portions of Iowa, extending eastward along I-80. That's where the average path is going to be for the first 15 to 20 days of February. That means that the storms will be arriving and there is a lot of storms starting to work way out of the west coast quickly to the east, possibly just intensifying a bit to the southwest. A lot of cold air available to the north. So that means that during the month of February we're probably going to have some snow to ice, to rain situations in the mid-Atlantic and northeast, rainy conditions across the southern states and out on the west coast of course, a good deal of some rainstorms, maybe making it a little bit above normal in central and southern California. We'll have to see what happens there. But it also looks like a lot of snow across Montana and sections of the Dakotas over the next several days as these storms continue to move in from the Pacific Northwest and then dump a lot of snow over the northern Rockies and the western Plain States.

Speaker 0: 3:00

Weather-wise for your Sunday an increase in clouds from DC up to the Boston area. As I mentioned, during the evening and overnight there may be a little snow and rain, but nothing much. Highest amounts of snow probably around Albany and Glens Falls northward up to Saratoga, all the way up to Plattsburgh and central and northern Vermont, where they want snow because of the skiing industry there, and then on Monday a warm situation. Temperatures will go all the way up to near 50 in New York City, 55 in DC, about 48 in the Boston area, and all with generally fair to partly cloudy conditions. But eventually the series of storms will be arriving from the west and by the time we get towards Wednesday or New Year Thursday we'll be ready to go Probably have another situation of maybe some snow changing to rain in the northern tier of states and basically rain in the central and southern portion of the United States as well, as these storms continue to move in out of the west.

Speaker 0: 3:54

In the meantime, if you are traveling on this Sunday and again, if you are traveling on this Sunday, I know we've had these two aircraft, and again, if you are traveling on this Sunday, I know we've had these two aircraft the collision at DC before Washington National Reagan National Airport and, of course, the unfortunate event of the services. You can see that each and every day we have practically what 20,000 to 30,000 flights in the US alone, and when you consider all across the world, it's just an amazing amount. So it's really the safest way to travel. These things happen and I think what's going to come from all of this is there's going to be a little bit more regulations as far as where you can fly helicopters around DC and at what altitude. The safest place is always go over the center of the airport, not in the approach area, especially where there may be a situation that occurred like in DC earlier this week and it looks like you have these Lear 25s and Lear 55s trying to get from Philadelphia to Mexico with seven people on board and the situation where they're probably overweight and the situation where they might have tried to push it to climb a little bit faster than it could have and went into a stall. Who knows, all that information will be coming out over the next several days, but if you're traveling, it's the safest way to travel In the DC area.

Speaker 0: 5:21

New York for the daytime no problem. In the nighttime could be some mixed precipitation, but no problem. Up in Boston does look like fair conditions in Chicago, fair in Charlotte and Atlanta. Also fair in Central and South Florida, some showers off of, say, fort Pierce, vero Beach, all the way down to West Palm, but basically dry. In Texas, dry in the four corners. San Diego and L are looking good, but it looks like rainy weather in San Francisco and north, all the way up to Portland and up into Seattle. Some rainy conditions there slowing things down just a bit. A little bit long-winded for this Groundhog's Day 2025. We'll see if he sees his shadow. We'll talk to you first thing tomorrow, take care.