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A Fast-Moving System Brings Rain, Snow, And Flight Disruptions From The Midwest To The Northeast

Stephen Pellettiere
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Hi, this is MediaBall, Steve Pelletier, and I'm the Weatherman. Thanks for checking in to the WeathermanPod.com on your Saturday, 29th day of the month of November. Just two more days of this month, and we've got fair but chilly weather across the Mid Atlantic and in Northeast for today. Plenty of sunshine with her highs only in the middle forties. At night, there's going to be an increase in clouds with nighttime low temperatures down to about 28 to 33. And we're expecting rainy weather on Sunday. The Catskills of New York, and also up in the Adirondacks. Might even be a longer period of some snow up that way, up the north way. But for the most part, it will be just occasional light rain for later Sunday and Sunday night. Highs for the day will reach 48. Monday's going to be mostly sunny, but chilly, 40 to 45. And if you have a frontal system move through, high pressure moves in for one day, and then low pressure arrives, usually means you're going to have some mixed precipitation. So that means on Tuesday, we're going to have some snow changing over to sleet and rain during the afternoon hours and the evening with high temperatures for the day only up near 40. And it probably will stay a longer period of snow across the northeastern uh Pennsylvania, the Poconos, Catskills, northwestern New Jersey, and interior, southern New York. That's where they could get several inches of rainfall. Some of the uh blend of all the models that we were looking at shows somewhere between as little as a half to as much as two or three inches of snow or sleep, expected for later Tuesday. But we'll have more on that as we go through the weekend. But then by the time we get towards Wednesday, looks like uh some mostly sunny weather returns. 41 and also Thursday and Friday are looking fair but chilly. By Friday, highs will only range into the 30s. Now, if you're traveling by air today, all flights going in and out of the Chicago area, Indiana, Illinois, into Wisconsin, and even up into Minnesota going to be buffeted by a winter storm. Quite a bit of snowfall expected in those places from below pressure that had its origins across the Pacific Northwest, and with that cold air in place, looking at heavy amounts of snowfall in Iowa, southern Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, and the southern Great Lakes, and that'll be drifting eastward. That heavier area of snow is going to be moving up towards the north and east, up towards the St. Lawrence River Valley by Sunday. And of course, if probably will be in a form of some rain in the New York area. But if you're trying to fly into the Chicago area, expect cancellations, delays all across the upper Midwest. Probably the best way, if you're going to get try to get a connecting flight to the West Coast, take a southern route, either at Houston, Dallas, or Atlanta. Chicago is not going to work out on Saturday and Saturday evening. So, and maybe even on Sunday, it could be a little bit of a tough go there with uh cleanup operations and trying to uh make up for all the canceled flights that will be occurring in the Chicago area on Saturday. Uh West Coast is looking dry. Los Angeles, San Francisco, no problems. Also, dry weather in Portland and Seattle. And as mentioned, it does look like some rain showers in Houston and also in Dallas, but nothing major. Central and South Florida also looking pretty good. Atlanta, the best place to do your connections. And uh even into Charlotte. The weather there will be good on Saturday. Do not try to fly into the Chicago area. There will be cancellations and heavy snow. I'm India Roger, Steve Pelletier, and I am the weatherman. We'll update this uh outlook as the day continues on Saturday. Uh, probably look around noontime. I'm going to do an update. And uh we'll talk to you uh at that time. And if not, we'll see you on Sunday. See you then.