wind gusts record the at over 40 miles an hour. so whiteout conditions are a concern. blizzard conditions across the area and winter storm warnings from eastern colorado all the way up into sections of northwestern illinois. a very widespread area that will see significant snowfall of six inches. in chicago we re expecting at least six inches as we head into tuesday. the center of the storm across portions of oklahoma and texas. we ll move north and east and impact you in chicago as we head later today on tuesday. on the southern end of the storm system we have the possibility of severe weather. some thunderstorms out here across new orleans, jackson, mississippi, southern panhandle and georgia and alabama could look at isolated tornados, damaging wind gusts and isolated hail from some of the storms. be careful if you live out in the area. we re seeing a possibility of severe weather. heavy rain expected across portions of georgia where we have the drought conditions.
southern panhandle of florida. we are not talking about a storage event where the lake could say fill up water from the city pumped out fast enough if you get maybe two 20 inches of rain around the new orleans area. the rain has been falling for a day it is going to look like this on the radar picture. no big changes probably until monday or tuesday. it s going to take us some time. big problem for us is the models is all over the place on this one. nothing in the atmosphere that s going to steer this one direction or the other around five days from now when you see all this trend off to the northeast. hang out around the louisiana coast line. winds maybe up to hurricane strength spends enough time over water here. a lot of rain and some cases head up to 20 inches. a lot of people may be getting 10 to 12 inches of rain and that will cause big flooding concerns. inland flooding. not coastal flooding that s the big threat. trace: rick, i m looking at the map behind you there.