highly specialized forecasters, these hurricane forecasters and it is on their shoulders, as you say, as public servants to do this interpreting of this incredibly scientific, exacting data so that officials, government officials can make these decisions, brian. chris jansing in that very important room for millions of people, the national hurricane center, chris, thank you very much. we re going to take a break, and when we come back, as our next guest put it earlier this evening, when the weather channel is getting out of the location, that s when you know it s time for you to get out of a location. when we come back, we ll talk to meteorologist paul goodlow. g ne.
see perhaps just a change over to rain in new york city, maybe even in boston. we re still watching a decent swath of snow. and football on sunday, giants are at home. the steelers are at home. and cleveland is at home. yes, there will be snow falling again on those games as well. so meanwhile, across the midwest, you re seeing this swath here in the pink and purple. that s five to eight inches. two to three around st. louis. meanwhile, here s the bull s eye of the heaviest snow. just north of new york city and to the west of boston. some areas 6 to 12. would not be surprised to see perhaps more than a foot of snow in the interior of the northeast and new england as we head through sunday night and into your monday morning. back to you guys. all right. thanks much, paul. now we turn to what has been an icy reception in congress until today to a very important issue for millions of families. senator gillebrand has introduced the family and medical insurance leave act. the bill dubbe
unfortunately, we have more rain in the forecast. in fact, this is our flash flood guidance. that means one to two inches after rain, if it falls within three hours, that will cause a lot more flooding. the nature of these storms, summertime thunderstorms. they can dump one to two inches of rain in less than an hour. the radar right now, seeing some scattered showers. fortunately well to the north and east of waynesville. the atmosphere is still prime to give us more heavy rain through monday. we could see maybe one to three inches. some of that could fall not in 72 hours. maybe an hour or two and cause more flood concerns. but when will it end? next week a cold front kind of slices through the midwest, also pushes on to it the eastern seaboard. this is rare for the middle of august. what does that mean? our high temperatures are going to drop some 5 to 15 degrees below average. you got to remember, we re talking about the heat of the summer, august. we could be dealing with temperatur
here, which are pretty impressive well, might have to up these as well. the good news is new york city, you re on the lower end of this, but boston, we re in this bull s-eye, and philadelphia and d.c. were out of the snow, but boston, maybe a foot. that might number the low end. the high end two plus feet as we head through early saturday sunday morning, actually. andrea. what a weekend ahead for the people in boston and the areas in the northeast. thank you very much, paul. the man time magazine dubs the republican savior. that coming up next. [ male announcer ] you know that guy that s got a ham radio in his basement. he can talk to china, mongolia and all the koreas and he eats velveeta shells and cheese. so who are you calling amateur? liquid gold. eat like that guy you know.
a powerful winter storm is heading to the northeast after barrelling through the midwest, and airports are already experiencing major delays of more than two hours. blizzard watches are in effect throughout new england where travel could become nearly xwokt as crews in new york city brace for as many much as two feet of snow. mayor bloomberg today warning new yorkers say good-bye to that relatively dry winter so far. the good news it you like the snow is that we re going to have some. the better news is if it s going to happen, having it happen overnight friday into saturday is probably as good timing as we could have. joining me now from the weather channel is paul goodlow. paul, tell us what is the track of the storm, and how close are these forecasts right now? well, the two feet for new york is pretty much off unless you talk about, say, extreme eastern long island. the path and track of the storm, as you mentioned, is really a combination of a couple of systems. you mentio