Look ahead: Wild week of storms in the US

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Joe Lundberg warns of a stormy week next week with snow and ice impacting the Plains and Northeast as well as thunderstorms rolling from Texas to the Carolinas. California will become stormy as well.

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00:00Joe, I think it was about two weeks ago, you came up to me and say, you know what, Bernie,

00:04February is absolutely loaded with storms and you don't have to, you don't have to go

00:11too far.

00:12Let's start with next week as we're tracking three.

00:15Yeah, I mean, Bernie, this is something that really we've been talking about since the

00:19middle of January and our long range team has said that February was going to be the

00:23stormy month.

00:24And we were talking about that back in September and our pre-winter meeting.

00:28So this is unfolding pretty much as expected in the stormy pattern for next week.

00:32There you can see it.

00:33The jet stream will take a bend across the western half of the U.S.

00:36There'll be one system in here.

00:38That's a midweek storm.

00:39This is the early week feature and there's going to be plenty of Arctic air to the north

00:43of it.

00:44So those are the factors that are in play.

00:46Here's the first system.

00:47We'll probably take a track from Texas east, northeastward like this.

00:50And with cold air in place, it looks like it's mostly snow for cities like Boston and

00:54New York City and maybe even Philadelphia.

00:57It could be one of your bigger events of the year so far.

00:59To the south, though, there'll probably be some freezing rain in Sleet and maybe Charleston,

01:03West Virginia and Richmond and maybe even in northern North Carolina and of course soaking

01:07rains across the south.

01:08And I'd be worried about some severe weather with that particular system as well.

01:12Oh, we're not done.

01:13There's another one that follows right on the heels of that one.

01:15Probably 24 hours later, tries to come a little bit farther north, tries to shove some of

01:19that cold air out of the way, which means an icy mix probably for the interior northeast.

01:24Probably snow across upstate New York and northern New England and back toward Detroit

01:27and Chicago.

01:28All right, Joe.

01:29So we have the storms.

01:31What else should we be looking for for next week?

01:35Well, there there's the three things that I mean, we've kind of just highlighted it.

01:38Snow and ice abound from the southern plain to the northeast.

01:41To the south of it, you're going to see rounds of rain and thunderstorms.

01:45And yeah, I think you've got to worry about at least some severe weather.

01:48I wouldn't call it a severe weather outbreak, but I think there's going to be some anywhere

01:51from east Texas over to portions of the southeast.

01:54And then, oh, by the way, we're not going to leave you alone in the west.

01:58You're going to get hit with a bigger storm in the west later next week.

02:01You know, the first two storms bypass California, but you know, Joe, they need rain in California.

02:08But unlike previous storms, which have targeted central and northern California, this storm

02:14seems to have its eye on SoCal.

02:16Yeah, it is.

02:17We've looked at things over the past 24 hours.

02:19I think that everything's coming together now to bring a storm system in sometime later

02:23Wednesday, Wednesday night and focused on Thursday, and that rain should get all the

02:27way down to southern California.

02:29There's a renewed risk for flooding with this all across the state, but in particular parts

02:33of central and southern California, heavy mountain snow.

02:35We could be measuring this in feet and of course, travel delays with that.

02:40Now with that storm, it changes the pattern, right?

02:43Yeah, it does.

02:44With the depth of that trough there, it's an amplified pattern.

02:47So the ridge starts to spring up in here.

02:49That storm system, when it comes around the bend, this time looks like it goes for the

02:53Great Lakes.

02:54Still arctic air on the northern side of it, so snow and ice in these places from the Dakotas

02:58over to parts of northern New England, but to the south you'll turn warmer.

03:01Florida's going to miss out on all this.

03:02They're going to see very little in their way of rain over the next week to 10 days.

03:07It's a frenzy February full of storms.

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