that wouldn t be today. we re talking late tonight and through the day on wednesday. that will be the worst of it. and ending on thursday. it s going to set up interestingly. we will get snow. but the warm air takes over. we ll get rain. a mess of a forecast. take a look here. we put the clock in motion on tuesday afternoon. you see the torrential rain coming in across the south. and the moisture heads out. and marries with the cold air. the result will be a lot of snow. four to six inches for d.c. any time of the year: new york won t be into it as far as. less an an inch. maybe not even that. the rain will win over here into the day on late wednesday and heading into thursday. here it is. four to six inches in d.c. three to five in philly. before we switch over. back it rainfall. winter rolls on here. it s a short week. but we missed the storm on
our meteorologist pedram javaheri is now in the international weather center with details on that. pedram. george, this was aimen asing storm, a category 4, it has weakened to a shell of itself. something impressive of what is in store across portions of the northwest. it moves ashore we think in the next six hours. this makes landfall across baja, mexico. late monday and eventually tuesday afternoon. it becomes a tropical depression, produces tremendous amount of rainfall potentially in the southwestern united states. in fact, as it moves ashore here, it could bring down as much as three to six months worth of rainfall across portions of the southwest. that s some competition. there is another storm system approaching areas of central california, that will drop further toward the south as well. that will bring additional heavy rainfall. we ll bring you to tuesday in phoenix, tucson, eventually up to the rim to the north. and notice the next system comes in. with it rainfall into sou
we can see the storm was building, it was stronger than what we frequently see around here t. rainfall was really good. winds are whipping and sheets of rain are pelting the enclosure. rita tries to record all the action. i was paning across the back yard. as i was doing that, i could see in the background, the trees were really bending over from the wind and i thought, okay, i m going to pan back over there so i can maybe catch this tree, you know, really bending. watch this tree, it will start getting real windy in just a second. rita doesn t know how spot-on her camera work is about to be. oh, shoot. an explosion of thunder and lightning sends rita scrambling for cover. it s like boom! i jumped in the house. my camera goes flailing around and my mouth shouted out. it was so instantaneous that may
shot. pedram javaheri in the international weather center. the rains are important because when more rain comes in it floods into the cave raising the water levels, causing a real problem for these teens. absolutely. and the next couple of days we can see more rainfall over the next three days than we had seen over the previous 16 days combined. that s why this is becoming a very serious situation over the next couple of days aced on the shift in the weather pattern we re expecting. and of course you can take a look from the 23rd of june the amount of rain that had fallen each and every day the massive lull we saw from about the 2nd of july all the way until about the 7th and in the past 24 or so hours some rain has come in. of course in david s live shot we ve seen some rain over the past several hours as well. the pattern shift here is pretty dramatic going from tuesday into wednesday. each and every single afternoon brings with it rainfall from around, say, noon all the way into t