Pair of storms to send rain, snow from Midwest to Northeast

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Residents across the Midwest and Northeast may want to keep an umbrella nearby as rounds of rain and spotty snow will spread across the regions into the weekend.

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00:00 Well, the big story here across a lot of the Northeast is that we are just much warmer

00:06 than we were from this point yesterday.

00:08 If we look at where highs were, we were just in the 30s from Detroit to Buffalo to Pittsburgh,

00:13 42 in Columbus, so not as bad, but still quite chilly.

00:16 And even across parts a little bit further west, you still see some blue.

00:20 But overall, as we head throughout today, milder air is going to be the story that's

00:24 going to stretch from Chicago all the way through New York.

00:27 And that's going to be the story here throughout our Thursday, the setup across the Northeast

00:31 and even parts of the Midwest as well.

00:34 So that's going to be the story if we look at your forecasted highs versus those historical

00:37 averages, even areas as far west as Detroit, running slightly above that for today with

00:42 highs in the upper 40s, Pittsburgh 50, New York 50 as well.

00:45 But let's track our next weathermaker that's set to move.

00:48 It's on the way.

00:49 You'll note out ahead of it, we still have the southerly flow.

00:51 That's where those winds are coming out of.

00:53 And that's why that milder air is building here.

00:55 But notes behind me that's already starting to see that rain inch further north.

01:00 And that's going to start to push in late Thursday across parts of the Midwest down

01:04 through the Central Plains.

01:06 Eventually that rain is going to spread into the Ohio Valley as we take this into the overnight

01:10 hours tonight into early Friday.

01:12 This is around 430 a.m.

01:13 Eastern Time.

01:14 Note out ahead of it, we're still dry here across the Northeast, but we are talking about

01:18 a drenching rain pushing in again across the Midwest Ohio Valley, eventually spreading

01:23 into the Northeast as we head into late Friday morning.

01:26 This is around 1130 a.m.

01:27 Eastern Time.

01:28 We're still cranking out that steady rain here across a lot of Ohio, even through Pennsylvania

01:32 and upstate New York.

01:33 We're going to continue to follow this storm as it does shift north.

01:37 But note, we do have this little skinny line of snow that's going to stretch across parts

01:42 of the Great Lakes, even down through the Plains.

01:44 And that's what's going to be producing some light accumulation.

01:47 We'll get to that in just a bit.

01:49 But as we continue to follow this storm, it is going to shift to north and east, still

01:52 bringing some drenching rain across a lot of northern New England, the interior Northeast.

01:58 But you'll note behind it, we're starting to dry out around 430 p.m.

02:01 Eastern Time in areas from Columbus, Pittsburgh, and even back through parts like Indianapolis

02:06 as well.

02:07 But still cranking out some snow, even areas like Chicago getting in on some rain showers

02:11 there even throughout the day on Friday before that eventually starts to shift offshore.

02:16 But here's how much snow we are talking about in that little skinny stripe.

02:19 So we are covering, let's say a lot of real estate, a lot of area, but not necessarily

02:23 a whole lot of snow.

02:24 It's going to be confined into this little skinny area from past I-70, St. Joseph, up

02:29 through Davenport, Grand Rapids, and Waterloo.

02:32 We are talking Iraqi local storm max as high as six inches.

02:36 And while it isn't a whole lot of snow, it is going to be falling Thursday night through

02:39 Friday night.

02:40 Some major interstates impacted I-70, I-35, even I-75.

02:44 So heads up, again, you could run into some slick travel Thursday night into Friday night.

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