From continuing drought on the East Coast to storms in the Plains and more, here's a rundown of what forecasters say November will bring around the country.
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00:00The crystal ball Accuweather long range meteorologist Joe Lumber. Joe, let's get us ready for next week.
00:05All right. What are the three things we need to know about next week, Bernie? Well, here's the
00:08first one. It's going to be warm and dry for the most part across the east. Yet again, you need
00:14some rain. This front that's coming through the east today, bringing precious little rain with it.
00:18I think the front middle of next week, same story. A taste of winter in the Rockies. Not once,
00:22but maybe two opportunities. Unfortunately, we're still dealing with trouble in the tropics.
00:27Yeah, not only with our latest system, but we may have additional problems down the road.
00:34Yeah. All right. Here's the dip in the jet stream. Again, our upper low, which is now
00:39in the northwest, that's going to be coming eastward, but there's even another system that
00:44follows that. Yeah, there's a little piece of energy that just brought another 9.6 inches of
00:49snow to the Anchorage area. They've got 21 and a half inches of snow for the month. That little
00:53piece of energy drops into this trough and kind of reestablishes the trough in the west. So,
00:58one system will come out at the beginning of the week. That's the severe weather threat,
01:01the heavy rain threat, the flooding threat from parts of, say, the Red River Valley up into parts
01:07of Missouri, maybe Illinois and Iowa. So, that's early in the week. Then that moves out to the
01:12north and east. It stays warm and dry in the east with that front coming through bone dry.
01:17Second piece comes in, and I wouldn't be surprised if Wednesday night, Thursday,
01:20there's some snow opportunities in Denver yet again. Yeah, and Joe, when you take a look at the
01:24current drought monitor, this just dropped on Thursday. I mean, look at that area from Texas
01:32all the way toward the Dakotas and in the mid-Atlantic. Yeah, Bernie, if you contrasted
01:37this to what it looked like back at the beginning of June, basically from here east, there were
01:42hardly any areas of drought. Look at how that has changed in the last several months, particularly
01:47these areas in here. It has worsened rather dramatically in the past couple of months,
01:52as has been the case here in parts of the mid-Atlantic and the Ohio Valley. You've just
01:56missed out on all the rain, and that's a pattern that areas east of the Appalachians as we go
02:01forward in November probably isn't going to change all that much. All right, Joe, let's talk about
02:06November. You and the long-range team, meteorologist Paul Pasolak, came up with your November forecast.
02:12Let's first talk about temperatures. Yeah, the temperature pattern suggests that there's going
02:16to be some more of these dips in the jet stream coming into the north and west, bringing with it
02:20some chilly air. Good news if you like snow and if you like to ski. You'll probably get a good
02:25start in the ski season, and parts of those slopes in the northwest may be down into Salt Lake City
02:29in the Benches area. But to the south and east of that, the warmth is going to continue
02:33for the most part. You'll have a couple of fronts that will come through from time to time, but by
02:37and large, you're going to see above normal temperatures. So that suggests your mean jet
02:41stream pattern is going to be something like this. And if you look at that, what would it suggest
02:46about the precipitation potential? South and east of it, it stays dry once again, so that's okay for
02:51the, you know, cleanup operations and rebuilding efforts going on after Helene in the southeast, but
02:56boy, you need the rain in the mid-Atlantic and the northeast. Extended fire season, if you will, but
03:01opportunities for rain in the nation's midsection. All right, active weather long-range expert,
03:05meteorologist Joe Lumberg. Joe will be back with us at 9.15. We're going to take a look at the
03:10long-range in the tropics. Yes, okay. You read my mind, Joe. There's a little tease for you.