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Vortex Dates

Stephen Pellettiere
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Hi, this is Midi Roger, Steve Pelletier, and I am the weatherman. Hope you have a great day coming up for today indoors because outdoors we've got a cold weather advisory. That means the temperatures will be extremely cold for this time of year, probably averaging, uh, well, it looks like at this point about 14 degrees below normal for the day, maybe in Philadelphia and New York City. However, uh, it will start to warm just a bit tomorrow on Wednesday, and then even into the 40s on Thursday before the next cold front moves through. We have these polar vortexes coming down. Basically, it's high pressure across the Arctic Circle, and every so often the jet stream bends down into central Canada and allows these big areas of very cold Arctic high pressures to move down into the North American continent and across the northeast. Basically, it's uh from the Dakotas right through the Great Lakes until the eastern seaboard that we're getting these outbreaks of cold air, much of the other portion of the nation, fairly normally, if not a little bit above normal temperature-wise. So we're going to have one of these outbreaks, of course, today, and then another one will be on Sunday, and then uh next Thursday, uh, actually on the 29th of January. Also seeing signs that we're going to be having uh another polar outbreak and possibly around that first weekend or the first day of February, uh February 1st, Sunday, uh coming up uh just a couple of weeks from this Sunday. Anyhow, weather-wise for today, a very cold day, temperatures of about 20 to 25, clear at night, down into the single digits. Tomorrow it looks like sunshine, about 30 to 35, 40 to 45 on Thursday, then back into the 20s, the near 30 expected for Friday, and this upcoming weekend. Very cold weather coming up for Saturday and Sunday. And every time you have this cold air around the area and the uh waves go back and forth between uh, say north of the Great Lakes and then down into the Mid-Atlantic states, you could have these storms developed like we had over the weekend. That's a possibility coming up for either this weekend or early next week. If you're traveling by air today, the weather situation across the New York area, airports, no problems weather-wise, except for the cold weather. Cold conditions also up in the Boston region, D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, all looking good weather-wise. Good weather down at Charlotte and Atlanta, no problems down at the Central and South Florida either. Might be a few showers in Houston and Dallas, Fort Worth looks dry. Some snow showers and possibly some squalls working into Chicago and the Windy City over the next couple of days. We'll have those snow showers and squalls. And then on the West Coast, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and still dry weather up in Seattle, Tacoma for most of today. I'm your bodger, Steve Pelletier, and I am the weatherman. Hope you have a great day today. Talk to your first thing on Wednesday. See you then.