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A preview of AccuWeather's 2025 spring forecast
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1/30/2025
AccuWeather's long-range forecaster Paul Pastelok was live on the AccuWeather Network with a preview of the spring forecast on Jan. 30.
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Joining me right now is AccuWeather long range, log range meteorologist Paul Pastelok here.
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And you know, Paul, before we get into the long range, the one thing that we've seen
00:12
a lot of this winter is a lot of dryness across the country.
00:16
I want to show you the drought monitor and kind of get your reaction to it.
00:20
And again, that drought monitor, I believe this is the new one.
00:23
It just got updated.
00:25
And there's chunks of the country where it's at least dry or at least some drought to contend
00:32
with.
00:33
Yeah, you look at the northern high plains, Bernie, that's been a drought that's been
00:36
going on since the fall.
00:38
And we're seeing it in the southwest as well, which has missed out on a lot of systems during
00:42
the course of the winter season.
00:44
62% of the country right now has some drought compared to 38% at this time last year.
00:50
So a significant difference going into the spring, which is something that the farmers
00:55
don't like to see going into the spring season.
00:58
And we've had problems along that I-95 corridor since the fall last year.
01:04
Some relief, but then it's turned dry, although we do have some rain on the way.
01:07
All right.
01:08
A couple of days left in January.
01:10
What can we expect for February?
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Well, a little bit of a change than we saw early in mid-January.
01:16
The jet stream now going all the way back to the western U.S., they're going to start
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getting busy.
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They're going to start seeing some storms.
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In fact, the period between like the 4th and 8th or 9th of February could be very active
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in northern California and Oregon with some heavy rain and mountain snow.
01:31
So very busy.
01:32
You can see that dip in the jet stream there, but it loosens up farther east and that allows
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milder air.
01:37
And, you know, spring is already getting a preview.
01:40
You talked about the heavy rain near Dallas, starting to see that kind of situation.
01:44
That's kind of a preview of going into the next several weeks.
01:47
Also, we're seeing Denver, seeing snow today that could be in the 60s this weekend, as
01:51
Tony was talking about earlier.
01:52
So you're seeing the signs in the south of some milder air returning, and that big contrast
01:58
is going to make things interesting from the Midwest to the Northeast, Bernie.
02:01
Well, a lot of people – also, Paul, finish that statement out.
02:04
In what way?
02:05
Yeah, well, I think you're going to have a frontal boundary from time to time being
02:08
in that area, and systems are going to come out of the west.
02:11
They're going to kind of ride that front and move across the Ohio Valley to the Northeast.
02:16
And if you're south of that front, you're going to get pretty mild.
02:18
You're going to have some rain, maybe some thunderstorms.
02:20
But north of that front, we're still going to be contending with snow and ice over the
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next several weeks in parts of the Great Lakes, Midwest, that hasn't had much snow during
02:28
the middle part of the season so far.
02:30
And that takes us to this graphic, Paul, where you answer the question, when is spring going
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to arrive?
02:37
We know when it's going to arrive on the calendar, but how about from the weather standpoint?
02:41
Well, we're looking at February, and it's early here.
02:44
We're talking about temperatures even next week down towards New Orleans and the Southern
02:50
Plains being in the 70s.
02:52
And it can be consistently in the 70s in some places.
02:55
Florida is the same.
02:56
They've been dry, and they should shoot up into the 70s and 80s as well.
03:00
So we're already seeing spring establishing itself in the south.
03:04
Yes, there could be some setbacks during the course of the early spring period, but it
03:08
looks like it's establishing in the south early.
03:10
However, in the north, again, we just talked about this boundary setting up in the Ohio
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Valley.
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It will be sluggish.
03:16
You'll get back and forth patterns setting up from the Great Lakes, northeast, some snow
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and ice.
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And also in the northwest, the Northern Rockies, not to leave them out, in fact, snow can get
03:24
down to Seattle and Portland at some point here in the short range.
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We haven't seen much snow there so far this season, but I think we're starting to establish
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that the cold air and the stormy weather wants to go back to the Northern Rockies and northwest
03:36
as we head into the first half of February.
03:39
For Accuweather Lead Long Range Meteorologist Paul Pasluck, Paul, thanks for joining us
03:43
here on Accuweather Early.
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