Storms to cause tricky travel across the US this Friday

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AccuWeather's Geoff Cornish breaks down how wet weather scattered across the country will cause travel problems on Jan. 5.

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00:00 So here we are with Friday.

00:01 The animation look at the snow there

00:03 into Kansas and widespread rain.

00:04 Wall of it moving east through

00:06 East Texas into Louisiana.

00:07 We need their drought relief,

00:08 but it's going to be a certainly

00:10 trickier day for travel for I-10,

00:12 even parts of I-20.

00:13 Most of the rain in Dallas is going

00:14 to be in the early morning,

00:16 then exiting stage right.

00:17 We have some lingering snow showers.

00:19 In fact,

00:19 a new round of some light snow into

00:21 Denver in the afternoon and evening.

00:23 Some snow showers and light snow

00:24 into into Minneapolis in the

00:26 afternoon and evening.

00:26 Pretty good shape for the east,

00:28 but in Seattle you have the next

00:30 round of rain sliding on in.

00:32 So some minor delays late Friday in Seattle.

00:34 We have some lingering snow

00:35 into Helena, Montana,

00:36 Salt Lake City.

00:37 You could see an inch or two of snow

00:39 on Friday and there will be some

00:41 more significant travel delays.

00:42 There's the nature of accumulating

00:44 snow into the Southwest.

00:45 We're in good shape except for in

00:47 Denver with some of that snow and

00:48 also the Wasatch Mountains,

00:49 the Uintas and into parts of

00:51 the Colorado Rockies.

00:52 There will obviously be some tricky

00:53 travel through the passes and in

00:55 the higher elevations mentioned.

00:56 The light snow up into Minneapolis

00:58 will also some of that will move

00:59 into the Bismarck area in the

01:01 afternoon and look out for a mix

01:03 of some rain and snow into Kansas

01:04 City late in the day.

01:06 Here we have a lot of trouble.

01:07 Rain showers in Oklahoma City,

01:09 Dallas in the morning,

01:10 Houston during the day,

01:11 especially early and into Little

01:12 Rock in the afternoon.

01:13 Drenching rain from Baton Rouge to New Orleans.

01:15 Just a wall of rain.

01:16 Slowdowns will be very likely there.

01:18 The CES in the southeast,

01:19 farther South and East there from

01:21 Nashville down to Miami.

01:22 Good shape there.

01:23 Ohio Valley to the lower Great Lakes.

01:25 No trouble there.

01:26 Northeast were in excellent shape.

01:27 And the rest of the I-95.

01:29 It's your quiet day Friday before a

01:31 lot of trouble arrives come Saturday

01:33 and then look at that big spike

01:35 for flight cancellations on Tuesday.

01:37 That's tied to that big storm system.

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