Look ahead: Wintry Christmas Eve for Northeast; Storms in West

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AccuWeather Long-Range Expert Joe Lundberg looks ahead to the weeks of both Christmas and New Year's and details how the weather will impact the remainder of the holiday season in the U.S.

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00:00to crystal ball looking ahead looking ahead meteorologist joe lumberg uh joe by the way

00:05as we get to uh what are we 2025 you and i will then be working 35 years together

00:14on september 4th 2025 what a 35 years you and i've run our 35th year now that's right that's

00:20unbelievable okay well right 20 yeah it'll be 35 yeah what what we have learned in those 35 years

00:25yeah we learned that there's still more to learn let's take a look at the three things about next

00:30week yeah here's the three things i want you to know and learn about next week obviously the cold

00:34air is going to be brutal this weekend and into monday morning but with time the high that produces

00:40it will start to retreat and the cold air will go with it with time however as we make the transition

00:45looks like some wintry weather across parts of the northeast and then a parade of storms across

00:51the northwest bernie i think i've counted like six or seven different systems between now

00:56and next weekend coming into the northwest you can see the net effect of it the parade of storms

01:00into sunday the precipitation totals i mean we're talking multiple inches and obviously in the

01:05cascades and the sierra we're talking beneficial snows for these places great for the skiers great

01:11for the aquifers although not so great if you're doing some traveling along the holiday you know

01:16overall though joe once we get rid of this cold air in the east as it begins to ease the weather

01:23pattern in the northeast not as stormy but we are tracking some storms next week we are indeed in

01:28fact one of them i think is going to come through this area monday afternoon and monday night and

01:33then through the northeast on tuesday there's going to be some snow in these areas and enough

01:38to cause some problems so if you're doing some traveling monday monday night and tuesday say

01:42from detroit over toward the boston area expect some slow going meanwhile to the south you'll see

01:46a couple of opportunities for rain after that first system leaves the northeast we kind of think that

01:51high pressure kind of retreat takes over again and it dries things out but it won't be anywhere near

01:56as cold as it is meanwhile the parade of systems into the northwest will continue unabated throughout

02:02the christmas week i know you and the long range team always like to give us a little nugget of

02:06information let's say well beyond so christmas is next week let's go to the following week as we

02:13take a look at the new year's eve uh day new year's day pattern yeah as you look at the big picture

02:19going into the last couple of days of 2024 and into 2025 the jet stream will be pretty far north

02:24but there'll be a growing trough in the nation's midsection something like this as we go toward new

02:29year's eve a storm is likely to come up this way on new year's day produce rain on its eastern side

02:34maybe some snow and ice on the northwest side but watch out cold air is going to follow that

02:38and don't be surprised if the first week of new year's you see some snow in the east

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