conditions. monitoring this is meteorologist derek van dam. derek, i was saying to you, a tricky drive with snow here in atlanta. but nothing compared to what s happening in the northeast. what s going on? yeah, as forecast, this low pressure going through explosive strengthening, we ve dropped about ten millibars of pressure just in the past few hours. an incredible amount of strength with the low-pressure system. as it rides parallel with the coastline, 30 to 40 base bars, with directions and kwood knits to give a benchmark of where that low needs to be with the heavy snow bands in the major metropolitan, that s what s setting up, we ll get to the radars in just a moment. you can see, classic satellite imagery showing the strength taking shape. and the cooling the tops and pressure behind it. with the snowfall totals in new york city, midday today, boston, you have the potential to see your strongest point of
but prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient originally discovered. in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. syri . let s get a check now on your weather with meteorologist michelle grossman. hey, we were talking lake effect snow the lake effect snow machine not quite cut up quite yet. we are looking at snow bands coming through. we can see 18 inches in some spots. we have some warnings in place, especially for syracuse. they could see possibly 2 inches per hour. it will cause roadway problems throughout the day. be careful. we are talking about cold, tomorrow, friday we moderate a bit. we have freeze warnings in place, you see the pink from texas to parts of north korea,
you ll notice we ll be up to around 26 in chicago. you re talking about snow squalls. yesterday we had the line of snow that came through everywhere in the northeast. that was the actual cold front that brought the frigid air in behind it. a very quick batch of a lot of wind and a lot of snow. just a short time. this is one of the lake effect snow bands that has been pummelling the plateau around watertown. that s why we re seeing incredible snow. it s a really isolated area. that is your lake-effect snow. you can see it across every one of the great lakes right now bringing the snow bands on the open side side of the lakes. that side, minus 2 for a high in chicago. 42 two days from now, saturday. 51 for monday as a high in chicago. so a huge swing in temperature about to hit everybody and going to feel really nice. neil: yeah. people will get really sick. that, too. neil: thanks very much. here s something that might warm your heart if you re in making
bands. one left going through long island. the last one for you. we still have a couple intense bands up around portland. many areas already reported a foot of snow around boston. southern connecticut, around a foot of snow. 15 inches on long island. incredible stuff and additional snowfall, 9 to 12 inches north of portland. everybody else getting another tw two to four at most. wind gusts, gusting to 59. incredible. gusting to 76 miles per hour. haven t heardy records of widespread power outages. dangerous windchills for the same region behind this storm. later tonight all through tomorrow, negative 20 to negative 40. brutal. this is another huge reinforcing arctic air mass that will spill through the region. this will be ugly. right now, not too bad. i can t going to be painful. i can t. how we ll do it through the morning lows. look at philadelphia.
that s how far that smoke is spreading and the one thing they need is moisture and it s simply not in the forecast. the moisture is on the eastern half of the country. all of the snow that has fallen. cross roads, alabama, 10 inches of snow. virginia highlands just outside of atlanta, georgia over 7.5 inches of snow. more snow snow is expected. we have winter weather alerts stretching from alabama all the way up to maine and that s where the system is going to move. the heaviest snow is about to enter the southwest side of atlanta and when i say heaviest snow i mean in the whole country. that s where we have some of the heaviest snow bands that are currently moving and that s going to slide up toward the mid-atlantic and to the northeast. but right now some of the cities that have the highest snowfall total os f the season are in the south. college station picked up