Wet week in the Northeast

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Rain is falling on the heels of wintry weather across the Northeast, with another storm already on the way.

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00:00Let's look at the snow depth map here as we ramp up to the next system.

00:04And you can see that this morning we had a pretty good coat of snow on the ground here and it continues to hold to the ground

00:09in many areas across western Maryland, eastern West Virginia, much of Pennsylvania.

00:13The deep blues here down into the Great Lakes, that's where we're finding over a foot of snow on the ground

00:17after that great start to the snow season in places like Erie and Oswego and Watertown.

00:22The most recent round of snow last night to this morning has impacted five states with at least locations

00:29of four or more inches of snow. Cold Spring, New York, four and a half inches.

00:32Leonard Harrison State Park in PA, four and a half inches.

00:35Official number in State College was, I believe, 3.4 inches on campus.

00:40Wantage Township, New Jersey, with 4.2 inches. Western Maryland, four inches.

00:44So it's kind of a uniform snow. There weren't any one-foot snow amounts.

00:49There were some areas of sleet in the highest elevations as well.

00:53Reservoirs up the river from New York City are doing better.

00:56We are still a little slim compared to where we would typically be this time of the year.

00:59Some numbers offered via email from our friends at the New York Department of Environmental Quality.

01:05But about a third of the deficit that we had been dealing with has been erased by the recent weather pattern change.

01:11We're going to continue with this wetter theme.

01:13We're back up to 39 there in Portland, gaining two degrees in the past hour,

01:16but 59 degrees is where we stand in Charleston, West Virginia.

01:19Much, much warmer than we were yesterday at this hour in Portland.

01:2315-degree jump from yesterday at this point.

01:26So tonight's storm system is almost entirely in the form of rain for us across the region.

01:32We're going to be left with a warmer pattern just for a day or two,

01:35near a record high in D.C. tomorrow, matching the record for December 17th of 2021.

01:41Bree, this next storm system is going to come in closely on the heels of tonight's

01:45with just that one-day buffer, Tuesday's dry. We're back into it Wednesday.

01:49Right back into it. We have pretty much a soggy corridor over the next few days

01:54that are going to see some bouts of heavy rain.

01:57This is going to extend all the way from East Texas, all the way through a lot of the Tennessee,

02:02lower Ohio Valley into the Northeast. This goes through Wednesday night.

02:06We have plenty of fuel. We're able to tap into that moisture pumping in out of the south.

02:11That's going to help really juice up these storms.

02:14Now, north of the jet stream, still cold enough to support that wintry mix.

02:18So here in this green, that's where we're likely to see rain.

02:22Most of this next storm is going to be producing rain across the east,

02:25but for a few of us, especially across the interior northeast New England,

02:29you'll see some winter action. Here comes our next storm.

02:32You can tell because when we look at the higher levels of the atmosphere,

02:36your upper-level energy, we look for little waves. We look for little bursts.

02:40And you can see here where we're increasing that energy,

02:43that extra battery that we would need to help spark these storms.

02:47You can see that here clearly developing across eastern Oklahoma, eastern Kansas.

02:51It digs its way across the U.S. It's going to spread a lot of that rain

02:56and a lot of that activity here further east, essentially fling it.

03:01It's going to happen quite quickly. This is late Tuesday around 10.30 p.m. eastern time,

03:059.30 central time. Watch what happens with this front as it does make its way east.

03:10It does start to break apart, but not before it does dump a lot of rain.

03:13This just isn't a 24-hour time period. We do have the snow, though, locked in further north.

03:18Hence up, it's going to be a tricky travel.

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