00:00We're focusing in on Ohio because you've been hit the hardest and you can see why they might 96 mile
00:05per hour gusts in Huron Heights, 85 in Cleveland, 77 in Amherst.
00:09Yeah, that's going to cause problems and the wind is still blowing, not just in Ohio, but take a look.
00:14D.C., Chicago, both with 53 mile per hour gusts right now, 40 in Buffalo, not bad in New York
00:2021, but you know, LaGuardia, anything like 20 mile per hour gusts, that's going to cause some delays.
00:26So big problems here, including power outages. This is why I say Ohio has been hit the hardest, more than
00:31half a million customers without power in Ohio alone, but everybody together, we now officially have more than a million
00:38customers without power, and it's all because of that wind that I showed you.
00:43It's going to continue really throughout the rest of tonight, but here's the snow.
00:47Well, that's the other less impactful factor, but certainly causing some impacts nonetheless.
00:53Michigan seeing the highest snowfall totals, but Buffalo accumulating about an inch so far.
00:57You might pick up just a little bit more before all is said and done.
01:01Michigan certainly and Wisconsin, the UP of Michigan seeing the highest totals as we head into the overnight,
01:07but parts of New York State, New England and Maine are going to see some snow sticking to the ground
01:12and accumulating as well.
01:13This leads us into our weekend storm. That's what comes next.
01:18So Saturday, we start to see the snow move in.
01:20It's by Saturday evening that we start to see more widespread snow and even some heavier snow around places like
01:25Minneapolis with those darker blues on future radar here.
01:28But then here's our wintery mix, our ice, and here's our severe weather that develops from the Mississippi Valley up
01:35towards the Ohio Valley.
01:36Sunday afternoon, evening into the overnight, that's your first timeline here, but we're not done.
01:42Sunday, 630, we play this out.
01:44We move into the northeast round one of rain.
01:47That's going to impact your morning commute, but the bigger impact is the severe threat that starts in the afternoon,
01:52last into the evening.
01:54That's going to impact your evening commute or potentially any traveling that you have planned for your Monday.
01:59Big problems.
02:00We'll start with the snow.
02:01So, 24 to 36 inches just north of Green Bay, that's where we get up to four feet of snow.
02:07Green Bay itself, though, in the 12 to 24 band, Minneapolis looking at 6 to 12.
02:12This is February kind of snow, but hey, it's mid-March, just Mother Nature saying, you thought winter was over?
02:19That's funny.
02:19Not yet.
02:20Now, I mentioned the potential blizzard.
02:22Here's everybody that needs to be prepared for that, and I especially want you to pay attention to the timeline.
02:26Because I'm saying, Watertown, make sure you are in your house, you're good to go for the rest of the
02:33weekend by Saturday night.
02:35Minneapolis, Sunday, that's when things start for you.
02:37And a reminder, we're talking about less than a quarter mile of visibility.
02:42We're talking about the sustaining for three hours, just whiteout conditions with this blowing snow.
02:47Very, very dangerous here, continuing into Monday.
02:51But then, if that wasn't enough for you, we have the severe weather.
02:55There's two days we're watching, Sunday and Monday.
02:57Here's everybody that needs to be weather aware, Sunday.
03:00We do have that level two out of four moderate risk area, but I've been saying, and I'm going to
03:03keep saying it, all severe weather season.
03:06Anybody highlighted on this map, be prepared for really all types of severe weather here.
03:10Damaging wind and hail are going to be the most common, but we do expect to see a couple of
03:14tornadoes, at least, on the ground Sunday afternoon and Sunday night.
03:18So, make sure you have multiple ways to receive watches and warnings, ways to be woken up overnight.
03:22If you live in these areas, you're familiar with severe weather.
03:26You know these reminders, but you know what?
03:28It doesn't hurt to hear them again.
03:30If you don't have the severe weather, you might still have the wind, similar to today, but a much broader
03:36area.
03:36I mean, we're talking from South Texas all the way up to northern New England here and over to Colorado.
03:42It's a lot of flights that are going to be delayed or even canceled.
03:45It's a lot of semis that are going to be in danger on the highway of blowing over power outages,
03:50tree damage, you name it, we're going to see it.
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