Will dry weather ring in the new year?

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The start of a new year is right around the corner, and revelers who plan on celebrating the arrival of 2024 outdoors may be in luck.

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00:00 Well, that rain that we have been talking about across the Midwest, well, it's spreading

00:10 on east and here's going to be your setup here Tuesday into Wednesday.

00:14 Kind of the flavor of things.

00:16 We have milder air still holding on there across the northeast, particularly there along

00:22 the I-95 corridor.

00:24 That's what we're going to be talking about.

00:26 Just a straight rain event.

00:27 We don't really have enough cold late December air to really even think about snow in these

00:33 areas, but we see that dip in the jet stream.

00:36 We're increasing that instability in the atmosphere.

00:39 And while we are talking about some rain putting on it, we're also going to be talking about

00:43 heavy rain at that Tuesday night into Wednesday night.

00:47 We are concerned about rising creeks and rivers, of course, ponding on the roadways still going

00:51 to be a top concern.

00:53 Now this now this concern is going to spread across Pennsylvania, down through the mid

00:58 Atlantic, up through the Hudson Valley, most of Connecticut, closer towards the coast and

01:02 the New York City metro area extending through Long Island.

01:07 Urban and street flooding is going to be a big concern there as well as travel disruption.

01:10 So a lot of people are going to be traveling here over these next few days, maybe leaving

01:14 friends and friends after they friends and family after they visited them for the holiday.

01:18 But then as they are heading home, well, you're going to run into some wet weather here.

01:22 This is Tuesday night.

01:23 I'm going to jump ahead in time.

01:24 It's around 11 p.m.

01:25 Eastern Time.

01:26 We're starting to see that rain ramp up here across eastern Ohio, western Pennsylvania,

01:31 southwestern New York, and even down through the mid Atlantic.

01:34 That rain is going to gradually spread a little bit further north as we head into Wednesday

01:38 morning.

01:39 This is now around 8 a.m.

01:41 Heads up upstate New York.

01:42 We are talking about widespread heavy rain.

01:44 Philadelphia, eastern Pennsylvania, that rain moves into your region.

01:47 And then as we take this into the afternoon in New York, you're going to start to see

01:51 some of that heavier rain pull on through down through the Delmarva and then, of course,

01:55 up through the interior northeast.

01:57 That's going to be the story even as we head throughout the day on Wednesday.

02:00 Areas like Boston and Portland, you're going to dodge a lot of those raindrops.

02:03 But hey, I'm not going to rule out even a shower or two, especially as we see some of

02:07 that moisture lift on north as we head into Thursday.

02:11 Now here's your outlook for Thursday.

02:12 Still pretty mild there along the coast.

02:14 Low pressure still going to be in charge as we are talking about some lingering showers

02:18 there across the interior northeast.

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