the rolling mass of clouds. you see these features again often in advance of an approaching thunderstorm. this is the set up going forward. we have another round of severe weather. so the central plains taking sen center stage once again. this time from oklahoma to nebraska and parts of kansas. we have a cold core upper level disturbance over the western half of the united states. that s going to interact with what is warm unstable golf moisture. that s streamsing in from the south. it s going to allow for under 20 million americans under some slight or enhanced risk of severe weather. even a moderate risk of severe weather expected across parts of kansas and into the extreme northern sections of oklahoma and the national weather service and storm prediction center highlights this particular area for the high potential of severe weather this saturday. so that s an area we re going to pay particular attention to for long trek. very dangerous and the
week. we could see temperatures plummet 35 degrees below average. meteorologist janice dean is live in the fox news extreme weather center now. the cold air is moving east quickly. yes, absolutely. so here in new york we ll feel this cold snap heading into wednesday and thursday. so theror-under forecast highs. one degree on wednesday. the average is 24 in minneapolis. one on wednesday for chicago, and we re not talking about wind chills. these are air temperatures. 23 on thursday for new york city with overnight lows below zero in a lot of these areas. so the forecast highs for wednesday, this is where the cold core is across the northern plains and upper midwest, with temperatures one degree, that s again way below average for this time of year but the dangerous part is the wind chill. so currently it feels like minus 18 in green bay minus 16 in minneapolis, and across the northern plains and upper midwest we could feel wind chills from minus 40 to minus
heading into the weekend. minus 11 is what it feels like in minneapolis, 14 in kansas city. the map tells you the story, the pinks and purples and cold out there. continues throughout the workweek. long range shows us cold temperatures well into march. this is something weather watch to get used to. we ve already seen incredibly cold winter. bismarck, minneapolis minus one the daytime high on thursday. even chicago you ve been in the freezer much of the winter. single digits on thursday. your average is almost 40 degrees. the windchill is what makes it feels feel so dangerously cold. the cold core is across midwest, plains, great lakes, south and eastward over the next few days. it s going to feel like minus 30, minus 35 in some of these areas. so again people are urged to stay indoors, check on kids. radar, seeing snow along the arctic cold front.
not coincide with landfall. now it looks like that s exactly what s gonna happen. you are exactly right with the description that ear now talking about a subtropical storm. it has transitioned from a tropical storm to an extra tropical storm. so, instead of a warm core it has a cold core it interacted with that artic front and infused some cold air really sort of acting as gasoline on a fire. so this storm is strengthening and, yes, unfortunately, it looks like the worse of it could come at high tide along those very vulnerable sturgeon prone regions. i just want to show you, we were thinking that this had made landfall, and now the national hurricane center, national weather service is saying we re still waiting for landfall because it has made that transition. so, the center is not as evident as it typically would be. with a tropical storm landfalling tropical storm system. there is ocean city, again, can you kind of see that centered. that s why we thought the center had come on
fill up. but across the cascades, it s going to make for a very uneven snowfall and very prone to avalanche. we ll watch that. a lot of the rivers across eastern washington state, they re going to be filling up in the next 24 to 48 hours. they ve already issued flash flood warnings out for all the rivers coming off of mt. rainier, and that includes the cowl et cetera and the puyallup rivers as well. take a look at the forecast radar. we get a little break, but the next storm system is going to have a cold core. so the snow levels, instead of being around 8,000 or 9,000 feet, they re going to drop to around 2,000 feet. we ve got the warm moist snow that falls and the drier snow. so that makes it very, very unsettled. take a look at the snowfall amounts that we re expecting from the bitterroot to big horns down through yellowstone and in towards the tetons. could be heavy at times, and they re expecting one to three