Your travel forecast for the first day of February
Pouring rain will cause travel problems for much of the Southwest on Feb. 1, but where else could the weather cause travel problems? AccuWeather's Geoff Cornish has the details.
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00:00 Our travel forecast is really problematic in the southwest, but there are other areas
00:05 where we have really decent travel conditions for Thursday.
00:08 We do have a few minor concerns involving patchy freezing drizzle in the morning into
00:13 Minneapolis, maybe a little patchy freezing fog as well, just a tiny, tiny glaze of icy
00:19 moisture could be left on some surfaces.
00:21 And then wind is a concern into Dallas in the afternoon, high volume airports, the winds
00:25 pick up and that restricts the number of runways that could be used.
00:29 We have showers in Seattle and there's a big problem tomorrow morning in LA with the heart
00:33 of this next storm system rolling through.
00:35 So we've got wet weather, Seattle, Portland, Boise, rain showers, Reno turning wet.
00:39 If you head west of Reno and you're trying to get down into Sacramento, you have big
00:43 problems there with just feet of snow and if you can postpone travel, traveling through
00:47 the passes is not going to be fun there in the Sierra with feet of snow coming down for
00:52 many areas.
00:53 And again, drenching rain all morning long or at least for the morning commute there
00:57 in LA.
00:58 Those are some major problems.
00:59 So if you can work from home tomorrow, a remote day, it's going to be a better, less stressful
01:05 day there.
01:06 We still have some rain showers in San Francisco, also very wet into Vegas with some rain on
01:10 the way there.
01:12 Up into Casper, we have a little bit of leftover wind in the morning, so look out for high
01:16 profile vehicles on the highway.
01:18 And again, we mentioned that patchy freezing fog into Minneapolis and also the Dallas wind
01:22 concerns could lead to a few flight delays in the afternoon here and there.
01:26 Also we have some showers just kind of brushing the area of Detroit, mainly rain showers in
01:31 the afternoon tied to our new front dropping on in.
01:34 We could see up to an inch of snow in Bangor, up to an inch into Montreal and rain over
01:38 to some snow showers late in the day in Buffalo.
01:40 But Boston and South are in good shape.
01:42 So we do have a few hundred flight cancellations expected for Thursday, mainly in the southwest
01:46 and again into Sunday, also mainly in the southwest into California.