From snow in the Pacific Northwest on Monday to tornado risks in the Mid-Atlantic on Wednesday, a cross-country storm will pose serious issues in the final days of February.
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00:00 Our top story tonight is talking about the stormy pattern that will work its way through next week
00:06 and it has widespread impacts across the country including the severe weather threat. It's after
00:12 wrenching rain fell in Little Rock, Arkansas yesterday among the spots that could see the
00:17 potential for severe storms next week. We have a lot more on that in a moment but we begin in
00:24 the northwest where they're going to be getting the impacts first from this storm system. There's
00:28 the view from Portland showing you the sunshine out there all classical.org looking spectacular
00:35 if I don't say so myself but by Sunday things will really start to look quite a bit different and
00:40 feel quite a bit different outside too. Opening up the big board we've got a lot of different
00:46 action going on but the story will be that the colder air does dive into the west and the warmth
00:51 pumps up to the east as we go into early next week and then we're going to flip the scales again
00:57 as we go throughout the week so we will see some big time changes. What does it all come from?
01:02 A storm system that is currently still spinning here off the coast of Alaska so this is where
01:08 our energy is coming from and that is going to create the chance for some snowfall first
01:14 as we push our way into the northwest. We can see the threat Sunday into Washington, Oregon,
01:20 Idaho and parts of Montana. It moves throughout the interior west on Monday. We'll have some
01:25 impacts in the Sierra and some California but most of the activity moves through the interior west
01:30 as we head into Tuesday. Snowfall by the way will occur at some lower elevations Monday into Tuesday
01:37 morning so Monday night we'll focus on the I-5 corridor. There will be some snowflakes mixing in
01:43 towards sea level maybe not completely but we are looking at some rain mixing in below a thousand
01:49 feet but snow mostly above that point so expect significant travel disruptions especially on
01:54 interstate 90 interstate 84 as we're kind of taking some of those elevations off towards the
02:00 east a little higher and creating that snowfall. Here's how this storm system still swinging its
02:05 way through Alaska slides its way right down the coast and just keeps on coming in from that chute
02:11 from British Columbia Canada's coastline into the interior northwest. This is Monday morning. You
02:16 can see all the blue on the map towards the I-5 corridor again trying to get that snow to mix in
02:21 at lower levels and then the core of this storm system starts to work its way out into the plains
02:25 where it's got a warm moist pattern ahead of it and it's going to continue to feed its way into
02:30 the risk for severe weather as we head into Tuesday afternoon and evening and that's all behind a very
02:37 warm pattern. The warmth is going to be partly responsible for this storming pattern. Chicago
02:43 you're going to climb into the 60s this week. It's going to be very warm after actually start
02:49 to the weekend by the way. Kansas City, Missouri 74 for that forecast high. Des Moines 71. It should
02:55 be enough to break the record on Monday set back in the 1800s and it's not just the days that are
03:01 warm the nights are going to stay mild too. We should be in the 20s this time of year Chicago.
03:05 We'll only be going to the 50s Monday night into Tuesday morning and guess what the record low is
03:12 42 degrees so we're going to stay above that. We're going to be a very warm Tuesday morning
03:17 to start things off and that's going to be a record with how warm it will be in the morning
03:21 to start things off. As we go throughout the day on Tuesday though the problem is that warmth doesn't
03:25 come with complete sunshine. It's going to come with clouds and eventually showers and thunderstorms
03:30 and this is our threat for severe weather. The risk for severe weather reaches 50 million people
03:36 as we head through next week. The start of it will be Tuesday from Milwaukee to Shreveport
03:40 including Cincinnati. Places like Indianapolis, Springfield, Peoria all in the risk here for
03:47 severe weather and then that risk moves a little farther to the east as we head into Wednesday.
03:53 We'll include Memphis, Birmingham, Pittsburgh places from eastern western Pennsylvania right
03:59 back to eastern Arkansas for a risk for severe weather. Behind it all then colder air will be
04:04 ushered in beyond the backside of that storm system so next week Wednesday we see that cold
04:09 air slide through the plains and finally pushes towards the east coast by Thursday and Friday
04:14 and check out the temperature difference. We go to near 90 in Dallas as we go on Monday
04:19 to the mid-50s on Wednesday below historical average.