reporter: absolutely. and the fact that we have seen incredible warmth in march, 50 cities, over 50 cities breaking the record for the warmest march on record. so that s one of the reasons we ve seen a lot of severe weather, is that very warm, moist, unstable air mass. and that s what s happening right now. you can see that bow echo really forming across portions of texas and louisiana, and it s kind of like an archerrer s bow, that signature on radar giving us the indication that we have some very strong winds and perhaps some hail. we could also see tornadoes, so a severe thunderstorm warning in effect around the lufkin, texas, area. we could actually see some tornadoes, so we ll keep an eye out for you. severe thunderstorm watch in effect until 5 p.m. local time. let s watch our future radar as we go further out this evening, we re watching this area right here for the possibility of severe weather, and look at denver. cold enough for snow, just a couple of days ago we were settin
but, you can see this. whoa! oh my. [ male announcer ] quattron from sharp. you have to see it, to see it. [ engineer laughs ] it may be april fools day, but this is no joke. take a lookouts our studios this morning. after the wettest march on record, we are expecting sun in new york city today. see what happens when you get rid of march and you usher in april. things should stay dry through the weekend. and temperatures are going to be in the upper 60s, even the 70s here in new york city over the weekend. just to the south in washington, spring has sprung in an awfully big way. the forecast, sunny today, with a high of 73 degrees.
we re in the climate cycle we re in. winters start slow and the end february and march, and that s what you re seeing this year. neil: we talked about view a collective thought in the media when covering weather-related issues, and these are headlines over the last year about whether it s global warming and winter is getting warmer and spring turning into summer, and summer turning into lava. how did we get this so wrong? well, we didn t get it wrong. my company put out a forecast at the end of february for one of the coldest marches on record. in fact i mailed it in, february 26th. since 1996. but a lot of folks are lulled hen they talk globalf security warming, why don t we talk globally? last year we had the warmest march on record. but the united states is only