00:00Let's check in with meteorologist Adam Klotz for our Fox Weather Forecast.
00:04Hey, good morning, y'all.
00:05For a big weather system like you're talking about, we obviously need cold air.
00:09There is plenty of that out there.
00:11Frigid temperatures.
00:12These are your wind chills across the northern plains, the upper Midwest right now.
00:15Negative 43 is what it feels like in Minneapolis.
00:18Look at that, negative 32 in Chicago.
00:20All of this cold air is going to be mixed with some moisture that's going to be sweeping across the country.
00:24And then all of a sudden, look at all these winter weather advisories from extreme cold to cold weather advisories.
00:31All of this ultimately turning into big winter storms that are sweeping across the country.
00:35The cold air is going to be a part of this because ice is likely going to take down power lines.
00:39I'll show you more on that in just a minute.
00:40We're kind of still waiting for this to come together.
00:43This is some of that energy that's going to be shooting out of the desert southwest,
00:46Ultimately running across New Mexico, getting into Texas, Oklahoma.
00:50That is where this entire system begins before it sweeps across the rest of the country.
00:54On the southern tier of this system, you're looking at a big ice maker.
00:57On the northern end of this, that is where the snow is going to fall.
01:00In the snow, you could be seeing a large swath of the country that could be seeing a foot of snow.
01:04But beginning with that ice, that could be the most dangerous of all this.
01:07Obviously, it's going to make driving really difficult.
01:10But when you start to talk about half of an inch of ice, maybe up to an inch of ice,
01:13that takes down power lines, that takes down trees, and then that takes down power,
01:17Maybe for days in some of these locations.
01:19But you're getting into Texas, the Dallas area, probably from Little Rock,
01:23getting over into Mississippi.
01:25These are areas where the ice is going to be the worst.
01:27And then it's going to, again, really thicker up as you get into the mid-Atlantic,
01:30get into the Carolinas, get into the Virginia area.
01:32Those are the spots where the ice will be the worst.
01:34Those are the spots where we're looking at the most widespread power outages.
01:37Everything here in the red are places where the power could go down and go down for days.
01:42If it does so, look at the temperatures behind this.
01:44So you're talking about power out and then feels like temperatures by Sunday morning
01:48or actual temperatures or wind chills.
01:50There we are.
01:50Negative five degrees, one degree in Dallas, negative 11 degrees in Oklahoma City, zero
01:56in Little Rock.
01:57Frigid temperatures for folks trying to ride out these power outputs.
02:01Otherwise, just a little bit to the north of that, we start to talk about snow.
02:05These pink colors, maybe eight inches of snow getting up towards a foot of snow in some
02:09of these cases.
02:10That continues to be the case as you ultimately push up along the northeast.
02:14All of these purple colors, 12 inches of snow.
02:17I wouldn't be surprised if some of these areas saw 14, 15, 16 inches of snow.
02:22Isolated areas, we'll see more than that.
02:23I-95 corridor is going to be a big spot to pay attention to.
02:26Snowfall totals could be really impressive.
02:29That's going Sunday into Monday.
02:31So this is a storm that begins later today, and it's going to take us all the way through
02:34the weekend into early next week.
02:36Guys?
02:37All right.
02:37Thanks so much.
02:38Let's bring in Ken Graham, director of the NOAA's National Weather Service.
02:42Ken, this seems pretty bad, the longest in so many years.
02:49And the thought is, to the last minute, we're wondering, did anything change?
02:52From your models, could anything change at the last minute?
02:55Well, you know, what's not going to change is this is going to be a big, big, impactful
02:59event.
03:00I mean, I was looking at our weather.gov website, and 2,000 miles of watches and warnings.
03:07It's just absolutely incredible.
03:09More than half the country is going to experience winter weather.
03:11So not much is going to change.
03:13There are small details.
03:14How much snow?
03:15How much ice?
03:16A little movement north and south.
03:18But the big takeaway for the public is you've got to be ready.
03:20This is a big, impactful storm.
03:22Three-pronged, right?
03:23You're going to have the cold air coming in that's going to last for more than a week.
03:27You're going to have the snow, 8 to 12 inches, if not more, in some places.
03:30And the devastating, catastrophic in some areas, ice that could knock out power, knock
03:35down power lines, trees.
03:37And that's a prolonged event and a dangerous event.
03:39So air travel, ground travel, a big impact, that's not going to change.
03:43That's going to happen.
03:43Ken, what's your advice to people who might be thinking about, should I go to work on
03:48Monday?
03:49Do we send the kids to school on Monday?
03:50Or school districts that are watching?
03:52What's your advice for if someone has something planned, a meeting?
03:55Give us some of your advice, please.
03:59I love that question.
04:00And it's because everyone's thinking this, right?
04:02What can I do?
04:03Can I travel?
04:03The big thing is just stay off the roads.
04:06I mean, listening to the local officials is the big thing.
04:08I mean, there's, you know, check on each other.
04:09There are warming shelters.
04:11Local officials are setting up, you know, different resources for people.
04:15But the big thing is, listen to local officials.
04:17If schools are closed, you know, stay home, stay put.
04:20Because it's not just the snow.
04:22In some places, it's the snow and it'll be sleet and ice.
04:24So we're going to have large areas of sleet making travel absolutely hazardous.
04:28So the big thing is, you know, stay home, have supplies, and be ready.
04:32So the maps we're looking at show the storm's movement eastward as it comes from the west
04:37towards the east coast.
04:40And from what I see, I mean, if you're all the way from Charleston up north of New York,
04:46you're in a bullseye right there.
04:49Yeah, absolute bullseye.
04:50And it's interesting, you know, the track makes a difference.
04:53I mean, these small movements in any of the parameters, right?
04:57The cold air or the low pressure coming out of the desert southwest, or even the moisture.
05:01We have a warm area of moisture coming up about 10,000 to 12,000 feet.
05:06What that means is those are the areas that we can see where you can get that freezing rain
05:11and that dangerous freezing rain area.
05:13So we've actually thrown everything at this at NOAA.
05:17We have an aircraft that went out to the Pacific to see how strong the low is out in the Pacific
05:22and the desert southwest that moves across.
05:25And the Gulf of America, we have another aircraft out there looking at how much moisture.
05:29We've thrown everything into this forecast to try to pinpoint those danger areas.
05:34So, yeah, looking at that bullseye you mentioned, the bullseye in the northeast, the bullseye
05:38Oklahoma, all the way towards portions of Tennessee, Kentucky, any one of these areas,
05:45Arkansas could see some of that ice and snow, just the expanse, 2,000 miles.
05:49I mean, it's just an absolutely huge storm.
05:51You know, it's so weird.
05:52In the south, they're not used to it.
05:53I remember going to the Super Bowl in Dallas, and it was just a little bit of ice, and it
05:57was cataclysmic.
05:58They just couldn't handle it.
06:00Would it give this to people in Buffalo?
06:02That's cold any other day almost.
06:04So in the big picture, you worry about the grid.
06:07What should we, I mean, is there anything that could be done now to prepare cities and
06:12Protect cities, make sure that power grid is viable?
06:16I think a lot of it is just the public being ready, right?
06:20There's going to be areas that you can't help it.
06:22I mean, it's hard to protect power lines from trees that fall or power lines that
06:28fall from a half inch to an inch of ice.
06:30And at first, that doesn't seem like much, right?
06:32A half inch or an inch.
06:33That is an incredible amount of weight on a power line.
06:36So the advice to everyone is, you know, have ways to be able to protect yourselves
06:41if you lose power.
06:42How do you keep warm?
06:44How do you have food?
06:45What do you do?
06:45But one thing I do want to mention, I was Hurricane Center director, and I've seen this so many
06:50times.
06:50I see it now.
06:51Please, everybody, just reminding everybody to be careful with using generators.
06:56So power is going to go out.
06:58People are going to use generators.
06:59Don't put them in the house.
07:01Get them away from the house.
07:02I've seen this too many times over my 31 years, people losing their lives with a generator.
07:06So just asking everyone, please remind people to use them.
07:09You're supposed to put it outside, right?
07:10Yep.
07:10Exactly.
07:11Or in the garage.
07:11Can you put it in the garage if the door is closed?
07:14Yeah, I would get it outside.
07:15I would get it absolutely outside.
07:17Wouldn't even take those chances.
07:18Yeah.
07:18Okay.
07:19I heard they can't.
07:20I saw one report.
07:21A guy was trying to find a generator in Texas, went to so many different stores, gone.
07:25So shop right now for groceries, get water, get a generator if you can.
07:30And stock up on all your firewood.
07:32Yep.
07:32Thank you so much.
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