Look ahead: Frigid cold in Northeast; Next winter storm threat

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AccuWeather's Joe Lundberg looks ahead to the next week where the Northeast region of the U.S. will remain cold and dry. He also breaks down the next winter storm threat from Jan. 17-20.

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00:00Joe Lundberg for a look at what's to come in the week ahead. Joe. Well, I

00:04think that we're gonna have to deal with more art together. There's a

00:06little bit of a respite from it this weekend behind the storm. When it

00:10darts off the North Carolina coast, you'll see a little easing of the cold,

00:13but it's going to be brief in nature. There's more to come and subsequent

00:17waves. That's one of our three things to know. In fact, we'll talk about the

00:20Santa Ana winds. There's more concern for that to return or at least not

00:25completely go away through the weekend into the early part of next week. I

00:29think there will be some abatement of that later next week. Cold but mainly

00:33dry from the Mississippi Valley to the northeast. They're just gonna be

00:35another push of Arctic air, maybe a little colder than it has been. Believe

00:39it or not, there is a storm threat, though, that we're gonna be talking

00:42about. Always looking over the horizon for storms and a link to look like the

00:45next one. Melissa will be sometime between the 17th and the 20th. Let's go

00:48back to Southern California right now. Notice this area here. Southern

00:51County. This is obviously where we've had the wildfires over the past several

00:54days. This area is now back into a severe drought. I mean, it wasn't all

00:58that long ago that we had no drought conditions in California, but this is

01:01obviously gotten much worse over the past several months because of a lack

01:05of rain so far during the course of the winter season. This area and with that

01:10upper level low pressure area dropping southward late this weekend into early

01:14next week, there's a concern that there may be a period of time when the winds

01:17renew offshore and that could exacerbate the ongoing fire conditions.

01:22The rest of the picture. You can see that there's an upper level ridge of

01:25high pressure here over the Rockies, which means mild and dry weather for

01:28you trying to come out into the plains for time during the second half of next

01:32week. But the dip in the jet stream in the east means more cold, dry weather

01:36temperatures well below average in these areas. And as that cold air comes

01:39across the Great Lakes, you guessed it. There'll be some lake effect snow,

01:42Melissa, but obviously with cold in store for us, it means probably our

01:47winter threats are not over. We are not done with it. I showed you that upper

01:50level low in the southwest. Well, it's gonna move with time and we think late

01:54next week it will come through the southern Rockies and out into the

01:57southern Plains and cause low pressure to develop. The question is, does it

02:00move in this fashion? Does it move in this fashion? The answer is still

02:04unknown right now, but with cold air banked up to the north of it,

02:07somebody's gonna get some snow from it. The concern would be is that the first

02:11initial low pressure area goes up toward the Great Lakes and then moves

02:13off to the eastern seaboard. Maybe it leaves behind a front in here and a

02:17second wave comes up along it. If that's the case, then you probably see

02:21some snow and ice around the 19th and 20th in these areas. So it's an open

02:25ended picture right now, but that's the concern that we have with that

02:29period. One thing I want to leave you with, though, is that beyond that storm

02:32system, no matter what happens with it in terms of snow and ice, guess what?

02:36There's gonna be yet another round of Arctic air, at least through the 19th

02:40to the 23rd, and I'm concerned it lasts even longer than that before finally

02:43some relief from the cold at the end of the month. Don't put away those winter

02:48parkas just yet. You will need them in the eastern tier of the nation. Aggie

02:53weather expert, long range expert Joe Lundberg here. Thanks again for joining

02:56us.

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