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Look ahead: Wild week of storms in the US
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2/7/2025
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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Joe, I think it was about two weeks ago, you came up to me and say, you know what, Bernie,
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February is absolutely loaded with storms and you don't have to, you don't have to go
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too far.
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Let's start with next week as we're tracking three.
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Yeah, I mean, Bernie, this is something that really we've been talking about since the
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middle of January and our long range team has said that February was going to be the
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stormy month.
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And we were talking about that back in September and our pre-winter meeting.
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So this is unfolding pretty much as expected in the stormy pattern for next week.
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There you can see it.
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The jet stream will take a bend across the western half of the U.S.
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There'll be one system in here.
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That's a midweek storm.
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This is the early week feature and there's going to be plenty of Arctic air to the north
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of it.
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So those are the factors that are in play.
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Here's the first system.
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We'll probably take a track from Texas east, northeastward like this.
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And with cold air in place, it looks like it's mostly snow for cities like Boston and
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New York City and maybe even Philadelphia.
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It could be one of your bigger events of the year so far.
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To the south, though, there'll probably be some freezing rain in Sleet and maybe Charleston,
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West Virginia and Richmond and maybe even in northern North Carolina and of course soaking
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rains across the south.
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And I'd be worried about some severe weather with that particular system as well.
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Oh, we're not done.
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There's another one that follows right on the heels of that one.
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Probably 24 hours later, tries to come a little bit farther north, tries to shove some of
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that cold air out of the way, which means an icy mix probably for the interior northeast.
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Probably snow across upstate New York and northern New England and back toward Detroit
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and Chicago.
01:28
All right, Joe.
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So we have the storms.
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What else should we be looking for for next week?
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Well, there there's the three things that I mean, we've kind of just highlighted it.
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Snow and ice abound from the southern plain to the northeast.
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To the south of it, you're going to see rounds of rain and thunderstorms.
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And yeah, I think you've got to worry about at least some severe weather.
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I wouldn't call it a severe weather outbreak, but I think there's going to be some anywhere
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from east Texas over to portions of the southeast.
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And then, oh, by the way, we're not going to leave you alone in the west.
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You're going to get hit with a bigger storm in the west later next week.
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You know, the first two storms bypass California, but you know, Joe, they need rain in California.
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But unlike previous storms, which have targeted central and northern California, this storm
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seems to have its eye on SoCal.
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Yeah, it is.
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We've looked at things over the past 24 hours.
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I think that everything's coming together now to bring a storm system in sometime later
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Wednesday, Wednesday night and focused on Thursday, and that rain should get all the
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way down to southern California.
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There's a renewed risk for flooding with this all across the state, but in particular parts
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of central and southern California, heavy mountain snow.
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We could be measuring this in feet and of course, travel delays with that.
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Now with that storm, it changes the pattern, right?
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Yeah, it does.
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With the depth of that trough there, it's an amplified pattern.
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So the ridge starts to spring up in here.
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That storm system, when it comes around the bend, this time looks like it goes for the
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Great Lakes.
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Still arctic air on the northern side of it, so snow and ice in these places from the Dakotas
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over to parts of northern New England, but to the south you'll turn warmer.
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Florida's going to miss out on all this.
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They're going to see very little in their way of rain over the next week to 10 days.
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It's a frenzy February full of storms.
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