00:00 Beyond the holiday weekend,
00:01 what can we expect for the
00:02 first week of the new year?
00:04 We're going to talk about that
00:05 with Christina Shalhoub and Accuweather
00:06 long range expert Joe Lumberg.
00:08 With the details.
00:09 Joe, we're counting down last few days of
00:12 2023, but we have to look ahead
00:14 for the weather in 2024. We do
00:16 indeed, and I think one of the
00:17 things that we're going to note and
00:19 are three things to know about that
00:20 first week of January, it's going to
00:22 be very active across the southern
00:23 tier of states, and that means wet
00:25 weather from Texas to the southeast.
00:26 This is typical in an El Nino winter
00:28 for that southern branch of the
00:30 gesturing to be quite active,
00:31 and that's also going to mean a
00:32 couple of storms for California.
00:34 Probably one Wednesday and
00:35 maybe one next weekend.
00:35 Now, in terms of what we've seen so far,
00:38 Joe, it's been pretty lackluster
00:39 in terms of snowfall.
00:40 Even the snow we had basically
00:41 got wiped from the Northeast.
00:42 It did. I mean, you look at last year.
00:45 Widespread snow cover across the
00:46 northern half of the country this
00:48 Christmas. Hardly any and what
00:49 there was up in New England that
00:51 disappeared because that storm a
00:52 week ahead of Christmas as we look
00:54 at temperature departures across
00:55 the month of December.
00:56 It tells the story.
00:57 More than a dozen degrees above
00:59 historical averages in Fargo,
01:00 International Falls in Minneapolis,
01:01 Milwaukee, 10 degrees above average,
01:02 and Las Vegas even about 5 degrees
01:04 above the historical averages,
01:06 and it's been widespread across the country.
01:08 That's why we've had no snow.
01:09 Well, the question everyone's
01:11 asking Joe is when do we get some?
01:13 Is it going to be in this first week of
01:16 January? Well, probably not for most of
01:18 the country. Look at the pattern next week.
01:20 There'll be a split in the jet stream.
01:22 The northern branch.
01:23 Some weak systems,
01:24 but starve from which are maybe
01:26 a little bit of snow there,
01:27 but that's just not much cold air,
01:29 not much moisture.
01:30 The southern branch has all of the
01:32 tricks to it. A lot of moisture,
01:33 cool wet weather from Texas to the
01:35 South and East and then as we go a
01:37 little bit deeper into the month of
01:39 January we think there'll be somewhat
01:40 of a pattern change enough to allow
01:42 the jet stream to dive farther
01:44 South in the Rockies.
01:44 Cold air builds in Western Canada,
01:46 tries to come down to the Rockies
01:48 and spread eastward means it stays
01:49 mild in the east and probably not
01:51 much in the way of snow chances
01:53 through the middle of the month.
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