5:44 in the morning. a look at a beautiful live picture of the plaza right outside our j here at rockefeller center. let s get a check on our weather from nbc meteorologist bill karins. good morning. looks like another a-plus weekend. get all of those holiday errands done. the weather s not going to cause you any trouble. it s another amazingly warm morning in areas like washington, d.c., where it s near 60 degrees when you walk out the door in the middle of december. ridiculous. but colder air is on the way. and it is windy out there as the warm air exits, the colder air returns. winds gusting to 40 to 50 miles per hour across all of the mid-atlantic and new england. so if you have to take the airplane today, it could be a bumpy ride. it s going to be windy. temperatures will drop into the 40s in most cases. so you don t need too much of a jacket this morning, but you will this afternoon. a little light rain for arkansas, louisiana, mississippi, up into tennessee. that will move int
you are right, there would normally be a lot more traffic at the moment. brilliant of you to ware red today. otherwise, we might not be seeing you. we will see you again we hope. brutal cold in parts of the country. this is a temperature sign from fairbanks, alaska. it is going to read 35 degrees below zero. you see the minus sign there. while frigid, it is not record-setting. in 1933, the temperature plunged to 52 below zero. let s go to bill karins. good saturday morning. good morning, everyone. in our last busy weekend trying to get your holiday errands done, the least thing you need is a stormy weather pattern. we have it in a few locations. a near miss for new england, two or three days ago. we are thinking possible big nor easter. that storm is going to be out to sea. another cold blast of air is going to filter down in the middle of the nation. on the west coast, that is the stormy spot, california,