dealing with the big chill. widespread cold as the jet stream has plunged further to the south. feels like it s well below zero. dangers dangerously so. negative 6 in oklahoma. all that cold air pushed east ward. new york city feels like one degree. negative 9 in boston at this time. really dangerously cold. something to watch. snow into waterloo and minneapolis. light in intensity. right along the great lakes, lake effect snow coming in could bring on saturday another 4-6 inches. almost that time. new year s eve. show you the forecast for time square. mostly clear. windchill will be near zero. this is going to be a cold one.
couple of days. even keeping the postal service from fulfilling its oath. reporter: more snow fell on erie pennsylvania. have you ever seen anything like this. not really. called for help. even the national guard. you haven t had a break. we have not had a break since really christmas eve. guard troops helped dig out this senior center. exit blocked by snow. now, god forbid. what they usually get all winter. one sign of progress, erie s airport finally opened. first arrivals and departures in days. are you checking the bag. told us she had christmas dinner from the vending machine had a flight out. i m quite happy. yes. but the mail service is no
bring in meteorologist bonnie snider doing what she does best. it s looking like a very cold new year s eve for folks in the northeast. sure is. for so many negative numbers for windchills. take a look. how do you dress for that. layers or stay in doors and we re looking at this cold air plunging to the south. currently the widespread cold stretches across the northern tier of the country. looking at current temperatures. only nine degrees? st. louis with a negative 4 windchill. dodge city, also windchill of nine. head further to the east, even colder. cincinnati feels like negative 2. atlantic city, three degrees. boston has it worse. feeling like negative 9. talking about snow. busy travel week. looking at serious of clipper system. snow coming into water loo and minneapolis. watch as the storm system works
begins october 1 in this region. they ve had a couple of drips in the bucket since october 1. that s it. october is typically the wettest month of the rain season. show you the map for the next seven days. it would be a blank map. nothing to talk about. no sign of any wet weather or rain heading for southern california any time soon. all of the bad weather and winter weather stuck in the great lakes. looks to stay that way at least for the next couple of days. into the weekend. snow this morning and a lot of school cancellations and delays i m sure from areas of northern pennsylvania, northern ohio, right through upstate new york and the two northern new england. i-95 looks good. maybe a little bit of rain shower. that will be the worst of it. highest snowfall total the mountains of northern new england you expect. little bit of lake affect. syracuse, watertown area. south of buffalo around erie
for october. was off the charts in the northeast. for the year, wait until i show you the graphic where we stand a lot of the cities. currently the cold front is coming through. it s so warm and humid out ahead of it. we have overnight thunderstorm. erie pennsylvania, line of squall line went through rochester. now plain old rain. lightning straights here. the southern end of this has numerous thunderstorms in areas of western kentucky this morning. a lot of people woken up. band now trying to go from indiana to northern kentucky. there are downpours. by later today a lot of that falls apart. here s 5:00 p.m. just a few showers around boston and new york. maybe a sprinkle or two. hit and miss showers and storms near tennessee. out ahead of this front well above average. 10-15 degrees warmer than it should be. new york city going to be # 3. should only be 57 this time of year. charlotte 80. memphis 76.