tonight i dare say we could see severe weather outbreak across-sections of the upper mississippi river valley and into the is central plains. moderate risk of severe weather. hail, high winds, potential for an isolated tornado and then one other thing to tell you about. this disturbance. the national hurricane center say there is a 60% chance to see it become a tropical storm in the next several days and 80% chance in the next five. okay. well, it is hurricane season. it is. so patterns like that i guess we should expect but still it always sounds surprising with a forecast like that. thank you so much, karen. appreciate that. all right. off to arizona now. they could use some of that wet minnesota weather, especially in the eastern part of that state. the san juan fire burned some 5,000 acres but conditions just might be improving. the weather is better today and crews are hoping they contain
information. but the searchers, again, are warning that it could take some time before we start getting more information on what is actually on the surface of the sea. the ships, which were in the southern area, have now been redeployed. all the assets have been redeployed but it s going to take until at least tomorrow for the first ship to arrive on that area, natalie. they are, in a sense, starting over. andrew stevens for us live in perth, thank you. let s continue that thought, the weather conditions now, and bring in karen mcguinness at our international weathercenter. karen, it was thursday when aircraft were grounded because visibility was zero in the previous search area. how much different is this snare glow this new space where they re focussing their efforts? it is dramatically different. the seas are lying down. we re not seeing that churning like a washing machine. the wind will be definitely much lighter, we had seen 60 to 75 kilometer per hour winds. now about 30 k
ocean. there you can see this gyre, this big kind of ocean current and as it gets closer towards the coast of australia then we start to see that current pick up a little bit more. over the next several days the good news is winds lighter, surf lighter, flatter, and we re not looking at any storm systems across the area. so we ve got several days of real good opportunity here. back to you guys. and that additional hour of time is desperately needed. still no confirmed debris from flight 370. karen, thanks very much. we ll have more on the search for flight 370 but first an update on our other top story today, the murder trial of oscar pistorius. he is in the courtroom now, he could testify soon and we ll have it for you live if he does. robin is live in pretoria next to our legal analyst kelly
as planned. they are confident the superbowl will be on sunday. pamela brown, cnn new york. it is not only the game that may be affected by this cold weather. chicago public schools will be closed tomorrow. karen mcguinness is in the weather scenter. friday, the anticipation for this particular superbowl game, it is in a cold climate, by looking at different computer models this one being the global forecast model and this one having a jet stream towards the north. thei ioio europeon model keeps
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