grows a lot of vegetation and dries out and gets fires anyway. relief for southwest. water year starts october 1. rainy season begins. usually typically they should be around five inches of rain. they ve had 12 hundredth. put me somewhere around an inch to half inch. not blockbuster amounts. that s when we get the debris flows. thomas fire was. this was by far the biggest fire we had and officially the biggest fire in california state history. went from filmore to santa barbara. all these little mountains. that s where we re worried about mud slides and debris covering up highways or heading for homes. so far, so good. as far as the warmth goes, new york city 33 degrees. boston 32. warmest locations have been since december 25. about 350 hours.
it definitely brings shoveling there, likely school cancellations or delays. and we have the next clipper system down from minnesota to bring snow from minneapolis northwards into central wisconsin. here s how we time things out during the day today. again, cleveland will get a break during the middle of the day. we ll exit that storm in the mid atlantic quickly and focus on the clipper system coming down through the great lakes. even detroit gets snow later tonight. again, we re not talking blockbuster amounts of snow. maybe two to four inches in a lot of areas of the great lakes and north of chicago. and detroit, one to two later on tonight. no big storms coming this week either. of course, punxsutawney phil will give us his forecast later this week. oh, that s right. thank you, bill. we have all the details from the australian open later in sports. it was awesome! what shall we call you? tom! name it tom!
to six. d.c. and battle will see some snow but not the blockbuster amounts. bigger deal tore you is the snow. in chicago 750 flights were cancelled yesterday. detroit, indianapolis, st. louis, snow ending this morning. lexington, kentucky and nashville coating this afternoon. there s about 110 million people see winter weather today, tonight twoerm. the temperatures will get you. if you re going to get the snow, shovel as it s falling. don t wait until friday. way too cold. do it today and tonight because tomorrow the wind chill value tanks. it s 0 in kansas city with wind chills in negative numbers. to show you how cold. 7 in hartford. worse friday night into saturday morning where we could see temperatures, some of the coldest readings we had in decades.