Speaker 1: 0:00

Hi, this is meteorologist Steve Pelletieri and I'm the weatherman. Thanks for checking into theweathermanpodcom on your Thursday, 13th day of the month of February and we're looking at some wild weather. Moving into the west coast and a storm leaving the eastern seaboard gave a little bit of some snow and some sleet and freezing rain, then rain to some portions of the mid-Atlantic and northeast during the daytime on Wednesday and Wednesday night. Then on Wednesday night it changed over rain and now it looks like a rainy pattern for the early going today, giving way to a clearing trend. There's a big area of high pressure that's currently across the central Mississippi River Valley that extends from southern Illinois all the way up to the southern Great Lakes southward, right in through northern Louisiana and east Texas. That high pressure will start to move in but very, very quickly move offshore. It moves in this afternoon into the eastern seaboard and then moves offshore Friday afternoon. In the meantime the frontal system the leading edge of that it's going to be some stationary just across central Florida. That'll cause scattered showers and thunderstorms, mainly from the frontal system a little bit further south down to about West Palm and into the Fort Lauderdale Miami area during the latter portion of Thursday and Thursday night. Elsewhere across the nation it looks dry.

Speaker 1: 1:09

In Chicago, after yesterday's snow, looks like an improving trend for this afternoon after morning rains in New York City and also some clouds and rain and snow showers in the Boston area. Dc is also showing a strong clearing trend during the daytime today. Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth the weather's looking pretty good, but out on the west coast, rainy weather from San Diego up to LA, all the way up to San Francisco, right in through Oregon and into Washington State as well, of course, across the mountains of eastern Washington, oregon and western Montana, northern Idaho and western sections of Wyoming. It's heavy snows in the mountains, the central and northern Rockies and expected to continue to spill out into the central plain states as a snow to rain situation. This big storm will wind up in eastern seaboard sometime later Saturday, saturday night and Sunday with rain, and then we get back into some more colder weather and another area of low pressure due to affect the eastern seaboard, or at least the mid-Atlantic and northeast, sometime around the middle of next week after the holiday Monday. In the meantime, for today, look for that rain to move offshore to northeast and that possibility of a strong gusty northwest wind bringing in some cold air for about 36 hours and that snow on Saturday changing to rain and a rainy, warm day on Sunday of this upcoming weekend.

Speaker 1: 2:26

I'm Eddie Rolster, steve Pelletier and I am the weatherman. Hope you have a great day today. Talk to you first thing on Friday. Take care.