Look ahead: Break from severe weather

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AccuWeather's Joe Lundberg looks ahead to next week as the risk of severe weather diminishes and slightly cooler weather arrives for the eastern half of the country.

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00:00You and the long-range team, you, Paul Pastelok, and our long-range team started looking, of

00:05course, at the spring once we got into December and January, and you issued this map for the

00:14severe weather for this upcoming spring.

00:17This was issued back in February, and the area you guys were highlighting, unfortunately,

00:22is where we've seen the rounds of severe weather thus far.

00:26Yeah, I mean, you could see the setup, what was going to happen, that there'd be an opportunity

00:30to bring moisture out of the Gulf of America, and there'd be frequent systems coming through

00:34this area, and this would be the area going into the spring season that we were highlighting

00:39severe weather.

00:40Boy, just look what's happened over the past couple of days, Bernie, and what's still to

00:44come over the next 48 to 72 hours.

00:47This area's going to be hard hit, not just with severe weather, but tremendous amounts

00:51of rain and really some catastrophic flooding.

00:53All right, next week, though, it's a little bit of a different pattern setting up.

00:58It really is, and the highlights for next week, I think, one of the big things, severe

01:02weather is greatly diminished across the vast majority of the country next week, so that's

01:06a nice little sigh of relief.

01:08In addition to that, it will dry out significantly across the Ohio and lower Mississippi Valleys

01:13after the tremendous flooding rains you're going to be seeing for the next couple of

01:16days, and unfortunately, it's also going to turn a lot colder in the eastern half of the

01:19country with some frost and freeze potential, and here's the pattern.

01:23You'll see a big upper-level ridge develop in the west.

01:25It's chilly now in places like Las Vegas, where it was nice and warm where it was last

01:28week, but you're having to chill now.

01:31Next week, it warms up, and that's centered on the Rockies for a while next week, and

01:35then it'll start to sneak out into the plains as the week progresses, but the downstream

01:38trough is meaningful.

01:40There's going to be a lot of cold air coming across the upper Midwest and the Great Lakes,

01:44and an opportunity for snow will unpack that in a moment, and of course, we're going to

01:48still have some showery precipitation in here for the latter part of the week, probably

01:52late Thursday and Friday, but most of the heavier rain will focus east of the Appalachians

01:57when push comes to shove.

01:59It's been a very topsy-turvy week in the northeast, cool, warm, cool, warm.

02:07No changes next week, though.

02:08No, the cold air comes in, and it means business.

02:11I mean, look at this.

02:12By the time you get to the middle of Wednesday, the coldest of the air is probably centered

02:15across the Great Lakes and the northeast, but as you have high pressure come down through

02:20these areas, I think Monday night and Tuesday night, there's an opportunity for frost and

02:24freezes in some of these areas.

02:25That could get into the western Carolinas, a portion of the Tennessee Valley, and of

02:29course, the Ohio Valley.

02:30I mean, it's just going to be well below normal in these places.

02:33In addition to that, there's going to be a system that will come through the Midwest

02:36later Monday, Monday night across the Great Lakes on Tuesday into the northeast, and as

02:40it does, there's going to be some snow in the area.

02:42You may see some snow showers in Chicago.

02:44Snow will probably change, rain changes to snow in Detroit.

02:48Some accumulation is possible across the UP of Michigan and northern half of lower

02:52Michigan and even across portions of upstate New York and northern New England.

02:55You could see some snow on the ground later next week.

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