00:00For the fourth consecutive weekend, we have a storm we're tracking near the East Coast.
00:06Now, here's what we know.
00:08This storm is not going to produce a widespread snow and ice storm.
00:11It will produce, though, rain and thunderstorms in the southern U.S.
00:15The northeast, it's a little tricky whether this storm can get far enough north to produce some impacts.
00:22Now, here are the ingredients for the weekend storm.
00:24We take you to tomorrow, big dip in the jet stream in the eastern United States, more on that in a second.
00:29And then the energy you see coming into the West Coast, that's the weekend storm.
00:34Now, the cold air coming into the northeast later this week is nothing like what we had over the weekend.
00:41This is not an Arctic injection of cold air.
00:44Take a look at this map and you'll notice you don't see a lot of pinks.
00:46You don't see a lot of purples.
00:48You see some blue.
00:49What does that mean?
00:50Well, as this cold air comes in, high temperatures will be a few to several degrees below historical averages,
00:56not 20 to 25 degrees below historical averages like we had last weekend.
01:02Now, where does this storm go?
01:04Here's the key.
01:06It's the northern branch of the jet stream.
01:07We're looking at an impulse coming into the northwest later this week.
01:11Then it comes eastward.
01:12If that's faster and stronger and it moves across the Midwest by Sunday, that will take that storm and keep it across the southeast,
01:20in which case it rains in the southeast, nothing in the northeast.
01:23But if that system's a little slow and a little weaker, that'll guide the storm to the northeast,
01:28in which case there can be snow and ice, especially across interior sections of the northeast.
01:34The southeast, it's just rain and thunderstorms.
01:37The southeast, it's just rain and thunderstorms.
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