What weather will the first week of 2024 bring to the US?
Those who have been wishing for snow will likely still be wishing through the first week of the new year, but part of the country will see plenty of rain. Here's the breakdown.
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00:00 Beyond the holiday weekend,
00:01 what can we expect for the
00:02 first week of the new year?
00:04 We're going to talk about that
00:05 with Christina Shalhoub and Accuweather
00:06 long range expert Joe Lumberg.
00:08 With the details.
00:09 Joe, we're counting down last few days of
00:12 2023, but we have to look ahead
00:14 for the weather in 2024. We do
00:16 indeed, and I think one of the
00:17 things that we're going to note and
00:19 are three things to know about that
00:20 first week of January, it's going to
00:22 be very active across the southern
00:23 tier of states, and that means wet
00:25 weather from Texas to the southeast.
00:26 This is typical in an El Nino winter
00:28 for that southern branch of the
00:30 gesturing to be quite active,
00:31 and that's also going to mean a
00:32 couple of storms for California.
00:34 Probably one Wednesday and
00:35 maybe one next weekend.
00:35 Now, in terms of what we've seen so far,
00:38 Joe, it's been pretty lackluster
00:39 in terms of snowfall.
00:40 Even the snow we had basically
00:41 got wiped from the Northeast.
00:42 It did. I mean, you look at last year.
00:45 Widespread snow cover across the
00:46 northern half of the country this
00:48 Christmas. Hardly any and what
00:49 there was up in New England that
00:51 disappeared because that storm a
00:52 week ahead of Christmas as we look
00:54 at temperature departures across
00:55 the month of December.
00:56 It tells the story.
00:57 More than a dozen degrees above
00:59 historical averages in Fargo,
01:00 International Falls in Minneapolis,
01:01 Milwaukee, 10 degrees above average,
01:02 and Las Vegas even about 5 degrees
01:04 above the historical averages,
01:06 and it's been widespread across the country.
01:08 That's why we've had no snow.
01:09 Well, the question everyone's
01:11 asking Joe is when do we get some?
01:13 Is it going to be in this first week of
01:16 January? Well, probably not for most of
01:18 the country. Look at the pattern next week.
01:20 There'll be a split in the jet stream.
01:22 The northern branch.
01:23 Some weak systems,
01:24 but starve from which are maybe
01:26 a little bit of snow there,
01:27 but that's just not much cold air,
01:29 not much moisture.
01:30 The southern branch has all of the
01:32 tricks to it. A lot of moisture,
01:33 cool wet weather from Texas to the
01:35 South and East and then as we go a
01:37 little bit deeper into the month of
01:39 January we think there'll be somewhat
01:40 of a pattern change enough to allow
01:42 the jet stream to dive farther
01:44 South in the Rockies.
01:44 Cold air builds in Western Canada,
01:46 tries to come down to the Rockies
01:48 and spread eastward means it stays
01:49 mild in the east and probably not
01:51 much in the way of snow chances
01:53 through the middle of the month.