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From Fast-Moving Snow To Flight Plans, We Break Down Today’s Weather And The Story Behind Airport Codes
Hi, this is Midi Walter, Steve Feather Tierry, and I am the Weatherman. Thanks for checking into theWeathermanpod.com on your Friday. It's the second day of the month of January 2026. And our weather situation started off with those squalls early in the morning that moved through the whole northeast from central New England all the way down in through southeastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Del Marva, and even to the east across New York City and Long Island and coastal sections of New England. Very fast-moving frontal system moved through between, look like around 5 a.m. and 7 a.m. At some points, the visibility has dropped down to an eighth of a mile and some heavy snow for a brief period of time and resulted in coatings to as much as an inch or two, especially in the higher spots of northwestern New Jersey. And very cold weather, too, starts off today with most temperatures down into the teens this morning is the cold trend. That showed us very cold conditions for the month of December, where we're averaging about five to six degrees below normal. Five to six degrees below normal for December. Well, that trend will continue at least in through the first five days of January. We are seeing a little bit of a warm-up, though, towards the second half of next week and uh into the middle portion of January. But then again, that could change. Northwesterly flow continues across the Great Lakes, causing lots of snow showers and squalls just to the south and east of Lake Ontario, Lake Erie, and also the Great Lakes of Huron and in the central and southern portions of Lake Michigan as well. The weather situation for today is going to be fair across the northeast, but cold. High temperatures ranging up to near 30. It's about a good seven, eight degrees below normal, with partial sunshine, partly cloudy at night, down to the teens again, middle teens for the most part. Saturday, partly sunny, lower 30s. Sunday sunshine 34, Monday, mostly cloudy at 31. Now, if you're flying today, uh first uh just a little tidbit of information about what I was reading a little bit earlier. Triple A has put out a pretty good uh little article. Uh Triple A, of course, your triple A today, the key to deciphering airport codes. So just go to AAA today or triple A.com and uh look for that article, a key to deciphering airport codes. And it just talks about uh why airports are uh their identifiers are the way they are, you know. Uh no identifier in the United States, that's public or where we have uh transportation hubs, uh, can start with an N because that's reserved for the Navy. Like that's why Newark is EWR instead of being NEW. NEW used to be uh a uh naval air station down in uh southern portion of the country. However, Newark EWR is uh very common. Uh most folks know what that what that that is, but why is it not NEWR is explained in that article. Also, Key West, instead of starting with the K, that's also restricted as well. The U.S. Navy Reserve Code is beginning with the letters N, K, and W. And they're also reserved to U.S. radio call letters. That's why these airports have particular codes. Some of these airport codes are very obvious, like ATL. That is the busiest airport in the world. Hartsfield, Jackson, Atlanta Airport. I say Atlanta all the time just to uh get there quickly and get out and talk about all the rest of the airports across the nation. DFW, Dallas Fort Worth, Denver, uh ORD, which is O'Hare International Airport, and LAX, which is for LA, and just adding an X at the end, that's Los Angeles International Airport. All explained in that article, so you might want to check that out. But if you are traveling today, we're still going to have those lake effect uh snow showers and squalls at Cleveland, Erie, Pennsylvania, also uh south and east of Lake Ontario at Rochester and over to Utica and Syracuse. Looks like it's uh just going to be very cold up around Messina, uh just south of Ottawa. However, uh also looking at pretty good weather in Norfolk, LaGuardia, JFK, no problems weatherwise there. Boston just a few snow showers, but basically pretty good weather in and out of there. Atlanta will have some rain moving in, but it's not going to be very low IFR weather or you know, very low weather that will cause significant delays, but they will have some showers. Charlotte also looking dry with the frontal system almost stationary just to the north. Dry weather in central and south Florida. Houston and Dallas Worth are dry. Chicago looking pretty good weather-wise, no problems there. Minneapolis, St. Paul also dry but cold. West Coast, still some showers in San Diego, LA, San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle. No major areas of uh weather moving into the Pacific Northwest at this point. However, for tonight and early on Saturday, good possibility of a storm moving in from the Pacific. So there will have some hefty rains once again in Northern California up to Washington State. That's the weather picture across the nation for this uh second day of the month of January. Hope you have a good day. Hope you had a great New Year's, and we'll talk to you first thing on Saturday. See you then.