What weather will the first week of 2024 bring to the US?

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Those who have been wishing for snow will likely still be wishing through the first week of the new year, but part of the country will see plenty of rain. Here's the breakdown.

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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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