Major disruptions to travel and outdoor plans are possible this weekend in more than a dozen states as a far-reaching storm strengthens over the eastern half of the United States.
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00:00 My friends, if there's one thing you
00:02 need to know for this upcoming weekend,
00:04 it's that a major storm system is
00:06 going to impact millions of you
00:07 across at least the eastern
00:09 third of the United States.
00:10 We've been tracking this storm for days already,
00:13 and again, we're looking all the way out
00:15 to Saturday and Saturday night here.
00:17 As this system, you know,
00:18 I said this is a major storm.
00:20 It is physically huge,
00:21 stretching all the way from the
00:23 UP back down to the Gulf Coast.
00:25 Now on the north side of the storm,
00:27 we're going to be bringing in some
00:29 severe weather, which means yeah,
00:30 winter weather is on the table,
00:32 really stretching all the way back
00:33 from parts of northeastern Missouri
00:35 all the way through Mittenham,
00:36 MI and even back into the Great White North.
00:38 Now further South along the center of the storm.
00:41 That's where we're going to
00:42 get some soaking rainfall,
00:43 and unfortunately,
00:44 Saturday and Saturday night heads up.
00:45 We do have the potential for some spotty,
00:47 severe weather back along the Gulf.
00:49 Now this is good news.
00:50 Bad news.
00:51 It's mostly bad news.
00:52 We don't like severe weather,
00:53 but we desperately need rain
00:55 in this part of the country.
00:56 That said,
00:57 there is such thing as a
00:58 good thing, not just such thing
01:00 as too much of a good thing,
01:01 and some localized flash flooding,
01:03 some downpours,
01:03 some ponding on roadways.
01:04 That's possible Saturday and Saturday
01:06 night from Memphis to Little Rock,
01:07 Shreveport to Jackson,
01:08 MO all the way to Lafayette and Houston.
01:10 As well,
01:11 we could see some hail and gusty
01:13 damaging winds out of this system too.
01:15 Now as we follow our major
01:16 storm system into Sunday,
01:17 it starts to lift back toward the Great Lakes.
01:20 Again,
01:20 this is going to pull more of that cold
01:22 air around the backside of the storm here,
01:24 meaning that winter weather doesn't
01:26 just disappear as nice as that might be.
01:28 Well, don't like winter all that much,
01:30 but again,
01:30 this also pushes rain on the
01:32 South side of the storm.
01:33 Further back along the eastern seaboard,
01:35 and even as you head out into New England,
01:37 we are looking at more in the way of
01:39 rain moving in Sunday into Monday.
01:41 Now it's not all bad news again.
01:43 I mentioned how we need the rainfall
01:45 back around the Gulf fault.
01:46 That's not the only spot.
01:48 Look at future rainfall come in here
01:49 as we get through Friday night,
01:51 Saturday and Sunday as well.
01:53 You can see the heaviest areas of green
01:55 really back along the East Coast,
01:57 so well through the Mississippi River Valley.
01:59 We've been talking about this
02:01 for months at this point.
02:03 Mississippi River Valley has been
02:04 exceedingly dry and we have seen in
02:06 the past few months some record low
02:08 levels along the Mississippi,
02:10 so the idea that we could get some
02:12 more rain back into a very dry area
02:14 is tough in the short term,
02:16 but good news for the River
02:17 Valley in the long run.
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