Areas around the Great Lakes will have another burst of snow just before an extreme cold wave hits much of the eastern half of the U.S.
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00:00Even just over the past 24 hours or so, we've seen some pretty impressive numbers over a foot.
00:05All of these areas listed in New York really concentrated across the interior right downwind
00:12of Lake Erie. But where we are anticipating some of those higher impacts, we're still piling them
00:19up. So we're closely monitoring these numbers. But if you look at an area like Holland,
00:24New York, you're upwards to 17 inches over that. And Point Rock, you're at 16 inches.
00:29Silver Creek, not too far behind. You'll watch that snow on the map here just continue to meander.
00:37It doesn't want to necessarily leave like right away, but it will, especially as we are tracking
00:43this next weather maker, though, as we head into tomorrow. So this what's left, the lake effect
00:50snow, going to be kind of pushed out or absorbed from this next system that's going to be moving in
00:55across the north and west. But this is going to pick it up and along with it, dump some more snow
01:02on top of what's already fallen here in the northeast. Let's look at an area like Erie,
01:08PA, for a minute. We're talking about about 10 to 15 inches of snow. That snow expected to go
01:14at least through early Friday. That's our highest probability. But in an area like Erie, we're also
01:20encompassing when we get rid of this next system. So we're kind of tacking on what we're going to
01:27be seeing as this next weather maker rolls on through. It's a quick hitter, though, so it
01:31doesn't have a lot of time to dump a lot of snow. But we're talking probably an additional
01:37three to six on top of areas I've already seen possibly close to and more we've already seen
01:44more than a foot of snow. Let's take you live to Chicago, Illinois. It's time for the big three,
01:49where we look at the other big weather stories we are following for today. Yeah, 16 degrees. We've
01:54been pretty cold here. Bree, it's been a cold January, but there's a step in the right direction.
02:00But that was a good but. It was a good but. Yes. All right. It's set a lot. I know. However,
02:08it's going to get colder again. And the cold, cold is going to set in next week. Yeah, it's
02:13Siberian cold. We're deep in the trenches here when it comes to that cold settling across a lot
02:22of the U.S. This goes Friday into Monday, and we're calling this the Polar Express. It truly is.
02:28Absolutely. And it'll be sticking around through the week following that into Chicago and heading
02:33into the other side of the plains. We've got some snow on the map. We do. Even extending Friday night
02:38into Saturday evening. That extends from the Northern Rockies down through the Front Range,
02:45Denver included. We are anticipating about four to eight inches there in Denver, but it's going
02:50to be quite cold as this storm and as the cold continues to settle over this area. Yeah, so don't
02:59get too comfortable with any warm up the next day or two. We have showers near the Gulf Coast,
03:04and some of this is pulling away from Victoria and Corpus Christi. But Houston,
03:08you've seen some rain out there today. Yeah, some steadier showers, but, you know, it has been
03:15quite gray, at least when we haven't had the rain, but slowly, but surely creeping east.
03:22And it's moving into New Orleans there, where the American Meteorological Society has been doing
03:26their thing, the big AMS conference, over the past week. Over the past week, high pressure
03:32in charge, though, that starts to move in from the West, and it's dry, at least for the start
03:39of the weekend. You can see just a hint of what we get into then. Friday, 63 in Oklahoma City.
03:44Saturday, 34. So get ready for it. The big drop is going to be setting in. All right, let's get
03:49ready for it. It's going to take a lot here, Jeff. I know we've been hit hard. It's been a long year
03:56already with the winter weather. Just storm potential, though, on top. This goes January
04:0118th through the 20th. Yeah, so the weekend, first wave kicks through with rain for I-95,
04:07and then some snow in the interior. A second wave will follow as cold air really charges south.
04:12Yeah, and that risk of sub-freezing temperatures high again. I know it wasn't that long ago that
04:19we were talking about the same risk. It is going to be quite cold, and that's early next week. That
04:24sets the stage for that winter storm threat. We're tracking significant snow or ice across some of
04:31the same areas that were just hit. And this could even break out near Houston and parts of the I-10
04:37corridor. The southern part of this is reaching even further south. Yeah, big deal there. We don't
04:43do well with snow or ice in some of these areas.