AccuWeather's Joe Lundberg looks ahead to the first week of December. Rounds of snowfall are forecast to blanket the Upper Midwest and Northeast regions of the United States.
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00:00We head to the one and only Accuweather long-range expert, Joe Lundberg, who
00:04has certainly got a lot to say this week. But first, before we get there, Joe,
00:08we want to take a listen to last week. All right.
00:12Waves of cold will be coming into the northern plains and then spreading south and east all
00:16the way to the northeast as we go through the week of Thanksgiving and beyond. It'll dry out
00:21along the West Coast after this weekend and Thanksgiving Day. Yeah, we're going to be
00:24talking about a storm system across parts of the country. All right. Seems pretty spot on to me. We
00:30talked about that storm producing rain and snow and kind of a messy thing. What do we have on tap
00:35as we look ahead to December? The calendar's already there, Joe. Well, one of the things
00:39that we're going to talk about for next week is the same as last week. It's this one, the waves
00:44of cold. They're going to be coming from the northern plains to the east once again, and this
00:48will probably last into the second week of December before finally maybe easing more rounds of snow
00:53from the upper midwest to the northeast. We'll be keeping on a clipper system middle of the week,
00:57dry and warm in the west, though temperatures above normal pretty much everywhere from the
01:01western plains to the west coast for much of the week ahead. In fact, the reason why is this
01:06upper level ridge of high pressure that builds over the western states down on the eastern side
01:11of it. You're going to see these waves of cold. The worst of it's probably early in the week
01:14in the southeast, although it may get a little chilly there at the end of the week and next
01:18weekend. But as these disturbances come through the Great Lakes, you're going to see the lake
01:22effect snow ongoing through the weekend and into early next week. And then there's a clipper that
01:26comes through Tuesday night, Wednesday and Wednesday night, and that's going to produce a swath of snow
01:30from parts of northern Minnesota through Michigan and perhaps parts of the northeast as well.
01:35Maybe not a big event, but you know it's for everybody, not just for the lake effect band.
01:40So that's some of the things that we're going to be keeping a close eye on for the middle of next
01:43week. A lot of the ski resorts very happy about that, but that clipper system is going to kind
01:48of throw a wrench in things too. It really does. If you look at the temperature forecast for next
01:53week, this is Sunday and you can see the cold is well entrenched across the east. The system
01:57comes off the eastern seaboard Sunday and then the cold just continues to pile in behind it.
02:01Like I said, the worst of it's probably Monday night when you can get down to freezing in the
02:05I-10 corridor. Then it starts to ease up, but there's that clipper system in here. As it works
02:10its way like this, guess what? You're going to see another wave of cold air come crashing in behind
02:14it and it's going to be brutal at the end of next week and next weekend across the northeast
02:18and mid-Atlantic. I'm not sure if my winter coat is fully broken in yet, but if there's one thing
02:23people need to know, what is it? Well, it's probably going to be a relaxing of the cold, but that's
02:29going to come after this little thing. As we get to around the 9th, 10th, 11th of December, the upper
02:35level trough axis goes off the west coast. The ridge axis, I should say. The trough shifts west.
02:41That allows this system to try and develop. It's still not certain as to whether or not it can come
02:45up the eastern seaboard and be pushed out to sea. If it goes this way with all the cold air in place,
02:49you could be talking about a snowstorm. Then the one thing to know beyond that, after all this cold,
02:54the pattern will flatten and this cold will be retreating for the second half of December.
02:59All right, I'll definitely keep that in mind. AccuWeather long-range expert Joe Lundberg,
03:04thanks again for joining us. You're welcome.