brian: you got it check in with janice dean for the fox weather forecast. janice? janice: yes, here we go again, brian, take look at it cold air sinking southward from our friends in canada. 22347 chicago. forecast high. and a lot of freezing advisories for the northern plains and upper midwest. that cold air is going to sink southward across the ohio, tennessee river valley, thursday and friday set the stage for next winter storm that s going to impact the southeast and the mid-atlantic. also looking at the potential for some severe weather across the south today, including texas, louisiana, in towards mississippi and there is our future crack. so the cold front moves eastward and we get the potential for more ice and snow for areas that, you know, don t need anymore, right? because it s been really quite a winter so far for the southeast and the mid-atlantic. our friends in the carolinas and then have to watch the potential for a nor easter to come visit us on the weekend. we are
performance enhancing injection as a result he was suspended two years by churchill downs. next hour we will be speaking with the horse expert about the sudden death. bringing christmas trees to our troops. volunteers caravaning the trees to jfk airport where they are shipped to active duty overseas. trees were donated by nursery in ocean side, new york. local high school hockey players among those helping out in the 18th year of this wonderful tradition. brian, over to you. brian: i love it thanks so much, carley, meanwhile check in with our senior meteorologist janice dean. everyone has to salute you when you walk by. you are in charge. those are the rules. i-like it a lot. current temperatures across the nation. single digits in fargo and chicago 14. 22347 kansas city. the coldest air of the season my friends and moving eastward. there is your temperature departure from this time
frozen normally under a snow storm if it s comofn all the frozen all the way down you get the fluffy flakes. air melts all of that snow but at the surface it s very cold and so it freezes right when it makes contact. take a look at the maps and i will tell you what i m talking about there. see the temperatures 22347 kansas city. go up 5,000 feet above the ground there and the temperatures are in the 50 s. that s why once it falls it s freezing on contact. you see this kind of pattern here. we have this big high pressure across areas of the caribbean and in towards the atlantic. it s not letting the system move. this is why this is going to be multiday event. where you see pink freezing rain. oklahoma city freezing rain. some of those batches of rain is heavy in that area. that s why see are seeing the secretions very, very quickly on the ground. purple ice storm warning that covers a lot of territory central part of the country. by the time we get towards