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Preparing for February's Unpredictable Weather: Insights and Forecasts with Meteorologist Steve Pellettiere

Stephen Pellettiere
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Hi, this is meteorologist Steve Pelletier and I am the weatherman. Thanks for checking in to theweathermanpodcom on your Friday. It is the seventh day of the month of February, one week down already and we're looking at some wild, wintry weather across the nation. It started out with those big west coast storms moving into the Pacific Northwest, central and northern California, then across into the Central Rockies, and during the daytime today the heavy snows will be across Montana, north and South Dakota, moving into northern sections of Nebraska and coming out of Wyoming and northern Colorado. That storm will pass through Chicago during the early portion of Saturday and then it will head towards the east and give the eastern seaboard a little snow sleet and freezing rain, pretty much like we had on Thursday, and that will be occurring Saturday night and Sunday. But we see a constant stream of these storms moving into the Pacific Northwest, spinning to the nation's midsection and then eventually arriving in the northeast and there is the good possibility at some point either Tuesday, thursday or next Saturday, of a major east coast snowstorm and that will be most likely occurring probably around Wednesday or Thursday, and again a second chance coming our way on next Saturday, probably around the 15th of the month. But we are in a very active pattern. We're probably going to be above normal snowfall-wise for the month of February, if in fact this all comes true. In the meantime, if you are traveling on this Friday, still some rain showers across Atlanta, also rain and some IFR weather down and around the Charlotte area. So some delays getting into both Atlanta and the Charlotte area today. Central and South Florida looking fine. Also decent weather at Houston, although it's foggy early and the fog will linger in low clouds, but no major weather. Also up in Dallas-Fort Worth no major weather. Fair skies in Chicago today. There could be some snow on Saturday and then drying out on Sunday. However, that storm will be into the eastern seaboard, west Coast, showing some rain showers in LA and down around San Diego. Looks dry in San Francisco for the day, but more rain is moving into the Pacific Northwest. So some delays in Seattle and Portland expected for later Friday.

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Weather for the Northeast Carter Well, looks like a sunny day today, with our highs in the 30s, the lower 40s. At night it'll be clear to partly cloudy down into the mid-20s. So cold or near seasonable for this time of year. Then on Saturday an increase in clouds. It'll bring some snow and rain. Up towards Philadelphia it looks like rain and down around Baltimore and Washington Maybe a little brief ice maneuver to rain, but then some snowy weather over the rain in New York City and some snow up around the Boston area.

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Snow in central and northern New York. Looks like central and northern New York could get tremendous amounts of snowfall over the next 10 days from these storms moving our way. They'll probably be 50-50 around the New York area, philadelphia too, but as you go further north and up in the Boston area they will be getting snow from these systems. In the meantime we've got a great day today Plenty of sunshine in our highs, in the upper 30s and lower 40s. I'm your host, steve Pelletieri, and I am the weatherman. Hope you have a great day today. Talk to you first.