on that for you. that watch is good until 9:00 p.m. local time. you can see a widespread area of large hail, heavy downpours and isolated tornadoes. let s look at that cold side of the storm and track it for you as we head into saturday night, into sunday. kansas city, you see the darker shades of blue here. that s heavy snow we re expecting. so kansas city through st. louis, from six to 12 inches. some isolated areas could get higher amounts. taking a look at this torrent that moves eastward up toward the mid atlantic and northeast. how much snow could we get? we could get significant amounts. let s take a look at it. again, as we head through the next 72 hours. kansas city through st. louis, 6 to 12 easily. toward cincinnati, we could see higher totals across portions of central indiana. take a look at this forecast map. into dc, six to 12, perhaps higher amounts across the delmarva, toward philadelphia and new york, you need to be watching this as well because all of this is going t
if the rain snow line remains south and east of the area. look at new york up to boston. this computer model actually thinks that the storm is going to ride up the coast and perhaps whoever. and when tha hover. we will see sustained winds. 24 at jfk. as we go in the afternoon, sustained winds of 27 miles per hour not out of question to see wind gusts in excess much 40, 50, 60 miles her hour and it s going to remain with us heading into thursday and friday. look at new england, these are again sustained winds. even if the storm is offshore we ll be dealing with incredible winds, we ll be dealing with coastal flooding unfortunately and storm surge. this is a big storm system that is going to cause a lot of problems. winter weather advisories in the pink where we have winter weather warnings and the watches are posted still nor minneapolis down through chicago and over the mountainous raoegs of virginia, west virginia, into d.c. and philadelphia.
everybody on average east of the rockies, a good ten degrees above normal. we ve got an area of low pressure that s developed. and this is going to be a storm that we re going to be tracking the week ahead, so we get through tonight and tomorrow and we re talking about real rough travel conditions along i-10 as well as i-20 and we re expected to see several inches of accumulation, but you get up into the high country, it will be more like six to ten before all is said and done. this is going to be a big weather maker in the southeast, through georgia and the carolinas, into d.c. and new england as we head into your third wednesday, thursday, for you as you make those travel plans. expect to see a lot of delays as a result of this. this is a rainmaker. not a snowmaker because the temperatures are so high. it will get cooler on the backside of it, as well as breezy, however, it s not going
hours to clear out the parking lot, starting at noon and we expect sarah palin to get here shortly before that and to right in front where dignitaries will be leaving from so she can get out quicker than people at the back of the pack and though they will not hear from governor p l pal palin, once they make their way across the bridge into d.c., all of participants will hear from out going secretary of defense robert gates who will be retiring at the end over june as well as the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, admiral mike mullen. eric: a lot of speculation whether governor palin tries to run again this year, what are the organizers saying about the fact that she is taking part in the today? it is interesting, because they are clear it s not a sarah palin campaign event and she s not going to speak. that is why we don t know exactly when she s coming or where he s going to be. but, they are saying, it s not a democratic event, not a republican event and she s welcome to ride
pentagon which is across the street in arlington, virginia, across the bridge into d.c. to the vietnam veterans memorial. that s going to happen around noon and clear out the parking lot and once they get over there, they re going it hear remarks from chairman of the joint chiefs, mike mullen. here or there, governor palin not speaking, just along for the ride and after this whole event she s going to get off the bike and back on to the bus for the one nation tour, and she s going to be stopping at symbolic american history spots like the spots of the civil war battles, gettysburg and liberty bell in pennsylvania. basically seems like the whole point of the tour that the electorate has not forgotten about her. once she s done with the tour see if she s going to make it official the candidacy for the 2012 presidential campaign. dave: have you spoken with any of the riders? are they happy about sarah palin s present and kind of