Residents across the Midwest and Northeast may want to keep an umbrella nearby as rounds of rain and spotty snow will spread across the regions into the weekend.
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00:00 Well, the big story here across a lot of the Northeast is that we are just much warmer
00:06 than we were from this point yesterday.
00:08 If we look at where highs were, we were just in the 30s from Detroit to Buffalo to Pittsburgh,
00:13 42 in Columbus, so not as bad, but still quite chilly.
00:16 And even across parts a little bit further west, you still see some blue.
00:20 But overall, as we head throughout today, milder air is going to be the story that's
00:24 going to stretch from Chicago all the way through New York.
00:27 And that's going to be the story here throughout our Thursday, the setup across the Northeast
00:31 and even parts of the Midwest as well.
00:34 So that's going to be the story if we look at your forecasted highs versus those historical
00:37 averages, even areas as far west as Detroit, running slightly above that for today with
00:42 highs in the upper 40s, Pittsburgh 50, New York 50 as well.
00:45 But let's track our next weathermaker that's set to move.
00:48 It's on the way.
00:49 You'll note out ahead of it, we still have the southerly flow.
00:51 That's where those winds are coming out of.
00:53 And that's why that milder air is building here.
00:55 But notes behind me that's already starting to see that rain inch further north.
01:00 And that's going to start to push in late Thursday across parts of the Midwest down
01:04 through the Central Plains.
01:06 Eventually that rain is going to spread into the Ohio Valley as we take this into the overnight
01:10 hours tonight into early Friday.
01:12 This is around 430 a.m.
01:13 Eastern Time.
01:14 Note out ahead of it, we're still dry here across the Northeast, but we are talking about
01:18 a drenching rain pushing in again across the Midwest Ohio Valley, eventually spreading
01:23 into the Northeast as we head into late Friday morning.
01:26 This is around 1130 a.m.
01:27 Eastern Time.
01:28 We're still cranking out that steady rain here across a lot of Ohio, even through Pennsylvania
01:32 and upstate New York.
01:33 We're going to continue to follow this storm as it does shift north.
01:37 But note, we do have this little skinny line of snow that's going to stretch across parts
01:42 of the Great Lakes, even down through the Plains.
01:44 And that's what's going to be producing some light accumulation.
01:47 We'll get to that in just a bit.
01:49 But as we continue to follow this storm, it is going to shift to north and east, still
01:52 bringing some drenching rain across a lot of northern New England, the interior Northeast.
01:58 But you'll note behind it, we're starting to dry out around 430 p.m.
02:01 Eastern Time in areas from Columbus, Pittsburgh, and even back through parts like Indianapolis
02:06 as well.
02:07 But still cranking out some snow, even areas like Chicago getting in on some rain showers
02:11 there even throughout the day on Friday before that eventually starts to shift offshore.
02:16 But here's how much snow we are talking about in that little skinny stripe.
02:19 So we are covering, let's say a lot of real estate, a lot of area, but not necessarily
02:23 a whole lot of snow.
02:24 It's going to be confined into this little skinny area from past I-70, St. Joseph, up
02:29 through Davenport, Grand Rapids, and Waterloo.
02:32 We are talking Iraqi local storm max as high as six inches.
02:36 And while it isn't a whole lot of snow, it is going to be falling Thursday night through
02:39 Friday night.
02:40 Some major interstates impacted I-70, I-35, even I-75.
02:44 So heads up, again, you could run into some slick travel Thursday night into Friday night.