AccuWeather's Long-Range Expert Joe Lundberg looks ahead to next week, highlighting a period of persistent cold from the Dakotas to the Northeast and the potential for snow and ice from the Midwest into the Northeast.
00:00All right, it's that time of the morning where we take a look at next week, but we're going to delve a little deeper in the next week.
00:07I want to bring them on in. The crystal ball meteorologist Joe Lumberg. Joe, lots to talk about a week from now.
00:15Yeah, it's a really stormy pattern. There's a lot of cold air on the playing field. It's not going away anytime soon.
00:21I think there's some good news, though. There's some light at the end of the tunnel as we get closer to Christmas.
00:25But for the period, December 12th through 16th, so that's next Friday into the beginning of the following week.
00:31Persistent cold. That is not going away from the Dakotas to the northeast.
00:34There's a snow and ice threat next weekend and into the early part of the following week as the cold air tries to get dislodged across the Midwest and into the northeast.
00:42And there's going to be bouts of coastal rain and mountain snow persisting in the northwest.
00:47Here's the big picture for that period. You'll see a dip of the jet stream coming out of the northeast Pacific into the northwest.
00:53That's that fire hose of moisture that keeps hitting at the northwest. Underneath it, it's warm and dry in the southwest.
00:58But there's extreme cold in western and central Canada. Pieces that keep getting breaking away and coming south and east.
01:05Anytime there's a little area of low pressure, that could cause some problems.
01:08There's actually a concern for one in this Thursday to Friday time period moving through that could be the last opportunity for some decent snows in the northeast.
01:16Beyond that, then, you'll start to see a little bulge in the jet stream.
01:20And as that tries to push warmer air from the southwest up into the middle part of the nation's midsection, you're going to see some wintry precipitation.
01:28The northern areas are favored for snow. I think you're going to have to deal with some ice.
01:32You're just not going to get rid of all that cold air without some kind of problem during that period as we go into that week leading up to Christmas.
01:39You know, and Joe, you know, the winter was a little delayed from the lakes toward the northeast.
01:45A lot of people are asking, where is winter now? A lot of people are asking, all right, I've had enough.
01:51When can we finally get rid of this cold?
01:55Well, it's not going to be in this period. I think it's going to have to be after the 17th.
01:59There's probably one more shot of cold air that comes in at the back end of the period we're focusing on.
02:04And as we get to the 17th and beyond, I think the jet stream starts to flatten out a little bit.
02:08A little bit of ridging comes into the central plains.
02:11And as that happens, what I think will happen is you'll start to see some relief.
02:15The cold doesn't completely go away here across the Great Lakes and the northeast.
02:19But instead of being 5, 10, 15 degrees below historical averages, you might be much closer to those averages.
02:24The cold air, though, is not going away in central and western Canada.
02:29That's going to have to be dealt with.
02:30Any storm that comes along in this flow is going to cause some problems.
02:33You know, Joe, we got off to such a wet start in California during the month of November,
02:38but it looks like it's going to be a pretty dry December.
02:42We've turned the spigots off, and it looks like it's going to stay that way for the foreseeable future.
02:45All that moisture is now added up for the northwest.
02:48All right, to crystal ball meteorologist Joe Lumber, breaking it down right up until Christmas.
02:54All right.
02:56All right.
02:59All right.
03:02All right.
03:02Thanks.
03:03So, par di flood, we're going to see around the bounces at all.
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