As our leaving system takes off, cooler air starts to move behind it. This system brought much-needed rain to the Northeast. Tomorrow, the clouds will start to break up, and some sunshine will start to come out. Today it’s in the 60s, tomorrow it will be in the 50s, and Wednesday it will be hard to get to 50, with some places still in the 40s.
A new, strong storm system is getting ready to come out of the Rockies this weekend and into early next week. That will be our main story today. This will happen when the two branches of the jet stream meet and send a strong low-pressure storm from the Southwest into the Great Lakes area.
It will snow a lot in eastern Colorado and western Nebraska because it will snow a lot in the mountains of the Southwest and the Pacific Northwest. Before it comes, we will keep a close eye out for the chance of general bad weather. In a lot of ways, this will be like a spring storm, but the weather is going down instead of up like it does in the spring.
From southwest to northeast, the best time for heavy snowfall looks like Sunday through next Tuesday. It looks like our worst thunderstorm risk will be between Monday and Tuesday. There is a chance of big hail, damaging winds, frequent lightning, heavy rain, and even some tornadoes. People in parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and eastern Nebraska should be very careful.
Some places that get strong thunderstorms could see snow as a final shot from behind our system. Parts of Kansas, eastern Nebraska, Iowa, and South Dakota will be the best places to see this change.
