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Brutal Cold!

Stephen Pellettiere
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Hi, this is Bidi Roger Steve Pelletier, and I am the Weatherman. Thanks for checking into the WeathermanPond.com on your Wednesday. It's the 28th day, the month of January, quickly the month coming to a close, and we've got some very cold weather. The cold weather advisor will continue probably right up through Saturday. Each day highs will only rains in the upper teens and lower twenties. Each nighttime lows down near zero. When you have snow cover on the ground, a lot of times you're going to have colder temperatures by about a good 10 degrees. When the snow actually doesn't melt, but it what we call sublimes. It goes from the solid state right to a vapor. That actually pulls some of the heat out of the atmosphere and causes the temperatures to fall. So that type of sublimation will actually cause colder temperatures. And that's why we're having lows near zero, highs near 20. That's a good 15 degrees below normal for this time of year. It's going to make this whole month about an average of about one to two degrees below with above normal snowfall, as we mentioned yesterday. But as mentioned, we do have that cold weather advisory in effect. Look for sunshine and increasing clouds, or highs will reach about the upper teens and lower 20s, as mentioned. Fair to partly cloudy at night. Moonlit skies overnight with temperatures down to about zero. The wind chills down to about minus eight. So you really don't want to be out with that. Mostly sunny on Thursday, 21. Friday, sunshine 18, 19 for a high on Saturday. Everybody's talking about that possibility of another storm on Sunday. It seems like uh we've been having these storms once a week, uh, 18th and 25th. And now we're looking at the possibility of the first day of February, a storm along the eastern sea, but it doesn't look like it's pushing inlands. It's probably affecting the Jersey coast, maybe down Atlantic, Cape May County, down to uh the Delmarva Peninsula and coastal Virginia, and maybe even eastern Long Island and coastal Massachusetts. But outside of that, uh, as of this point, we're looking at some pretty good weather. Uh that will go offshore, but the cold will continue into the first week of February, and uh probably going to set the stage for uh below normal temperatures in that month as well. In the meantime, though, if you are traveling by air today, no major weather in the east or in the south or the southwest, uh, we do have lake effect snow showers and squalls with the Arctic Air going across the Great Lakes of Superior, Huron, and Lake Michigan, also the eastern shores of Lake Erie, and in particular the due easterly shores of Lake Ontario, up by Messina, New York, where they've been pummeled by snow of late, and that will continue as long as this cold wave continues as well. Good weather in Atlanta, no problems in Charlotte. Uh decent conditions in the New York area. They're finally starting to get uh back to uh a schedule at this point, filling up all those seats uh each and every day because of the problems that we had with the big storm on Sunday. By the time you get to Wednesday and Thursday, things start to stabilize a bit as long as the weather holds, and it has been holding quite nice. Chicago's looking good. And looks like dry weather up in Boston, San Antonio, and Houston, Dallas, all looking pretty good. West Coast, dry in San Diego, LA and San Francisco. Rainy weather returns to Portland and Seattle today. I've been your Steve Pellethiery and I am the weatherman. Hope you have a great day today. Keep warm and talk to you first thing on Thursday. See you then.