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Winter Weekend Outlook For The Northeast

Stephen Pellettiere
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Hi, this is Video Roger Steve Pelletier and I am the Weatherman. Thanks for checking into the Weathermanpod.com on your Tuesday. It's the 23rd day of the month of December. And uh just a couple days to the big day. And uh looks like the holiday weekend is turning more wintry. As a matter of fact, uh you know, winter officially started this past Sunday. Now 10.30 in the morning. It's called a winter solstice. A lot of people like to see if they can balance eggs on their heads or whatever. Doesn't mean anything. What we do have is we have the lowest point of the sun at high noon over the northern hemisphere. It rises in the southeast, sets in the southwest, makes that shortest path across the sky, and of course, it results in less sunshine, less daylight, less warmth. And we're gonna start feeling it now. We do have some snow that was working its way out of southern Canada and eastern Great Lakes. It's associated with a warm front. And it was moving across from just around Buffalo, Toronto, down into western New York State, the Finger Lakes, northwestern Pennsylvania, then right across into central and northern New Jersey, southeast New York, southern New England, and even the city. And that's for the morning hours today. Eventually, aloft it starts to warm up. Surface temperatures start to warm. So we'll just have that little period of snow on this Tuesday morning north. Down in Philadelphia, further south, probably just uh partly to mostly cloudy conditions, but the north temperatures today ranging between about 35 and 40 degrees. Amount of snowfall you usually get in this type of situation, between a coating to an inch or three, and of course the highest amounts in the highest elevations over in northeastern Pennsylvania, southeastern New York, northwestern New Jersey, and western sections of Connecticut, with just coatings to an inch generally everywhere else. We probably get a few light rain showers during the afternoon hours today, too. And then it looks like generally dry weather coming our way on Wednesday. Temperatures Wednesday will range between 40 and 45 with plenty of sunshine, then clouds on night. And does look like dry but cold weather for Christmas Eve and then Christmas Day. Uh looks like the possibility of some rain and snow showers, but just mostly cloudy temperatures will range between 40 and 45, not too cold on the holiday Thursday. Thursday night, although mostly cloudy 28. Interesting situation. Low pressure working its way out of the Dakotas. Working across the Great Lakes and quickly arriving in the east and intensifying could give us some snow later Friday and Friday night. And even the possibility of some rain or freezing rain Friday night into Saturday morning before it ends. But it does look like a very complex situation. It's something that we'll be watching for you right through the holiday over the next several days. But as mentioned, this light snow today should be ending, and we're getting into a clearing trend by later today, tonight and tomorrow and Christmas Day, the possibility of a little rain and snow, but milder, 40 to 45. And then as we head towards the end of the week, that possibility of another storm. If you're traveling by air today, a little bit of weather in the form of some snow and rain for the New York area, so that could cause some one to two hour delays there. Also looking at the possibility of some snow up and down in the Boston area, rainy weather in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and DC, and clear skies out in Chicago, also clear in Minnesota. As we head further south, uh generally dry conditions, although there could be some late day showers in Charlotte. Uh generally clouds and some later day and evening rains in Atlanta, but daytime, no problems weather-wise, no real low weather there. Some scattered late-day thunderstorms down in South Florida from the Keys to Miami and Fort Lauderdale. Uh Houston and Dallas are looking dry. Look at this rain now moving into LA, the LA basin and in San Diego. Also rain in San Francisco. Showers ending, however, in Portland and Seattle. But it does look like some uh rain moving in from a storm just off the Central and South California coast. And we may deal that in the east sometime towards the end of this week. I'm in your Steve Pelletieron. I'm the weatherman. Hope you have a great day today. Talk to your first thing on Wednesday. See you then.