meteorologist janice dean. it is pretty crazy all over the place. we will see a lot of reporters airports today. rob: we will see that story. pack your patience. drink every time somebody - happy thanksgiving. we will have delays. there will be some places where you will not be able to get where you are going. plan ahead. you might have to stay home. we have a couple storm systems. the first is moving across the great lakes, the trailing cold front across the mississippi river valley, the southeast, a lot of snow in the upper midwest. our next storm system is in the west and that will move in as we move across country the next couple days. what are we dealing with? a lot of rain, a lot of wind, thunderstorms and snow on the backside of this. people are wondering what about the macy s thanksgiving day parade? this will be a close call. this will be a gametime call.
apparently a lot of snow is set to deliver a one-two punch to the midwest and northeast this week. you heard me, john berman, this is happening. cnn chad meyers has our forecast. am i wrong, chad? no, you are right. not so much new york times, we have to see if the forecast changes. but upstate new york and ohio. and ontario, quebec, you do have a lot and new england with quite a bit of snow. this is brought to you by zantac. eat your way, treat your way. here it comes, a couple storm systems, one that will make light snow on friday. the big one will be later in the weekend. this is a monster storm that will put out big-time snow on the northside of the low. it depends where that logos north or south to see what you re going to see for snowfall. john, maybe one of the coldest days in kansas city for a year.
now. the disparity of the rainfall here. of course we know we need it around the western united states. noaa says 15 to 18 inches of rainfall over southern california would replenish the drought. incredible thing is the moisture in place across the southern united states could bring that amount of rainfall over the next five days. tremendous rainfall. couple storm systems. the gulf of mexico, the month of april. put it together. everything in place for historic rainfall. alabama went from sunday into monday morning, picked up 8 inches, over 200 millimeters of rainfall doubling what the month of rainfall typically brings them. radar imagery shows scattered showers this morning across the southern u.s. look at the pockets of white just offshore.
they ve had to return all their baby clothes in exchange for bigger sizes. and now for a look at the national weather, we turn to bill karins with the weather channel forecast. bill, that was not a baby. that was a 2-year-old. yeah. he can already hold his head up. congratulations to them. pretty cool. let s talk now about the temperatures. it was really cold the last couple days. great lakes and minnesota, it s still chilly this morning. temperatures are not an issue. now we re going to watch the development of a couple storm systems. we re going to see light snow out there in developing maybe in banding of heavier snow into friday up here in new england. right now the weather pattern, just kind of messy out there. there s a lot of clouds. there s not a lot of bad weather. we have much needed rainfall in central florida. we re also watching snow showers coming down through minnesota and the great lakes will have a lot of snow showers during the day to day also. first off to the ra