atlanta and not seeing significant melting through tomorrow. here s the national weather map. lake-effect snows expected across the great lakes and then this storm in the pacific northwest, more rain and boy an awfully wet month and a half for portland and seattle. more of that today and some higher elevations snows. other point that came out yesterday, kyra, the global temperatures for 2010 were both land and sea were tied for 2005 as the warmest, land was the warmest. and for the u.s., i think we were 23rd warmest. so doesn t feel that way, does it? not at all. not at all. think warm ideas slipping around on the ice. back to the sixth grade. what s the worst thing you ever did in the sixth grade? oh. you know, one thing comes to mind. i can t say it on tv. oh, now i really want the know. you can t say it? dr. smith was the principal and anyway, took years of therapy. you bring it up now, really? are you serious?
jetstream or at least the mi mid-level jet is bringing that towards the u.k. atlanta, nashville, knoxville, that triangle, we are seeing light rain that will probably intensify in spots today. we don t expect severe weather today. things are setting up later towards the week and the weekend. a pretty decent pulse of energy through the pacific. that will transfer to energy in the plains as we get through thursday, friday, and saturday and we might have severe weather to talk about then. san francisco, cool rain, higher elevations snows. 50, 60 degrees in the bay area. 89 degrees before the clouds come in to phoenix. 64 in atlanta. here is that energy tomorrow coming into the four corners regions with higher elevations snows. this trifecta of lows gets into the plains on thursday. it starts to take moisture from the gulf of mexico and we may very well see a severe weather setup at that point. it has been a long time really.