Speaker 1: 0:00

Hi, this is meteorologist Steve Pelletier and I am the weatherman. Thanks for checking into theweathermanpodcom on your Wednesday. It's the 12th day of the month of February, quickly approaching the halfway point, and it looks as though, well, winter still has a firm grip on the area. After a little coating of snowfall in New York City, an inch or so, there's a little bit more down in the nation's capital, baltimore and DC, a few inches there and even in southern portions of New Jersey, cape May, where there were between three and five inches of snowfall in the southern portion of the Garden State. Well, the weather situation across the nation shows these storms working their way out of the western states, then reforming across the central plains, bringing up some of that Gulf moisture which is going to cause the next event in the mid-Atlantic and northeast to be a snow to rain situation and also, over the weekend, the possibility of some light snow to rain expected for Saturday into Sunday and Sunday will be an overcast and wet day. This as a steady stream of moisture continues to move across the North Pacific into the northern and Pacific northwest of the United States and then eventually the central plains, pacific Northwest of the United States and then eventually into the central plains reforming over the east and another big storm could give us a little bit of anything will happen, probably sometime between the 19th and 21st of the month, that's around the middle of next week. Well, the situation across the northeast corridor on your Wednesday, though, showing the possibility of a few snow flurries, a little period of some snow, changing to sleep, then over to rain tonight and during the overnight. Of course, interior northwest of New Jersey and southeastern New York, northern Pennsylvania, across the Poconos, the Caskills and even up to the Adirondacks, will be a longer period of some snow and ice in those places and all snow across northern New York and central and northern Vermont. But that situation will be ending very quickly as the storm moves offshore early on Thursday. So the precipitation ends as temperatures go into the mid-30s today. It'll go down and holding somewhere around 31 and 36 tonight as it will be raining and the rain ends early Thursday. Then a clearing trend for Thursday afternoon. High pressure builds in and temperatures will start out in the 40s, which will but sharply colder for Thursday night and Friday. Then that next storm arrives. For this weekend, similar situation Looks like mixed precipitation over to rainy weather and rainy weather that will continue across the Northeast on Sunday.

Speaker 1: 2:14

If you are traveling on this Wednesday, it looks like fair weather. Up in the Boston area they have a little bit of leftover snow showers, but nothing major there, and generally cloudy for the New York area, with that snow changing to sleet and freezing rain expected for this evening. But there will be delays tonight because of the expected weather moving in, but during the daytime not too bad. Then in Atlanta looks overcast and wet with rain. There'll be some delays into there and also into Charlotte. Dry conditions in central and south Florida. Also rainy weather at Houston but clearing in Dallas. Snow expected for Chicago, so expect extensive delays going into the Chicago area today and tonight.

Speaker 1: 2:49

The west coast looks like another area of low pressures moving into the central and southern portion of California. Rain in San Diego and LA all the way up to San Francisco on a lighter side, central and northern portion of the state and dry weather in the Pacific Northwest. The storms are moving in the central and southern portion of the west coast, eventually going across four. Moving in the central and southern portion of the West Coast, eventually going across four corners and then reforming. That's the storm that will be affecting the Northeast this upcoming weekend. I'm meteorologist Steve Pelletier and I am the weatherman. Hope you have a great day today. Talk to you first thing on Thursday. We'll take a look at those weekend storms tomorrow. Have a good one.