they only d inches all last winter. especially it s been so warm this november. the heaviest snows this morning from rochester, syracuse, watertown, that s the expected lake effect areas and the higher elevations near the berkshires, northwest connecticut picked up about a foot of snow. today, lake effect snow warning continues all the way down to binghamton. the new york state throughway is one of the worst roads. it will be improving in new england during the day. here s the additional snowfall forecast. syracuse to watertown area through the northern adirondacks, that s another six to 12 inches on top of what you ve seen. a little more, one or two, three inches at most in the berkshires, and much of areas of western pennsylvania and new york state are only going to see another inch or so. still impressive lake effect snow and very windy, too. if we have problems at the airports, you know, new york city, philadelphia, boston,
with the cold air over the very warm lakes, we re having our first lake effect snow event. saturday, saturday night, into sunday, some areas even into monday. syracuse, typical spots, rochester, watertown, as higher elevations there in the appalachians and also this area here south of buffalo could pick up about six to 12 inches of snow. if you re in the lake effect areas, be prepared on saturday and sunday. so finally, how long did it take to start talking about november and the almost winter map? it s been so ridiculously warm. this will be a shock to the system for some. we ll be talking skiing. a lot of people want it for the thanksgiving holiday. all right, bill, thanks so much. still ahead, a scary moment during thursday night football. carolina panthers linebacker luke kuechly gets carted off the field after a really hard hit. we ll have the details next in sports. s are. yes, ideas are scary,
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still piles of snow around this city this morning. 40 degrees ought to help with that. not with the garbage, but with the snow. 45 minutes after the hour. time to get a quick check of this morning s weather headlines, rob, when you were showing that weather map earlier, boy it looked absolutely delightful nearly coast to coast. i mean, except for some of the lake effect areas and so forth. but relative to what we ve been dealing with, you re right, jim. good morning, kiran. a little bit more tranquil no days. yesterday, some rain in los angeles, snow in places that they don t typically get snow, las vegas, mojave desert. that storm is beginning to extinguish itself. temperatures will remain cold. i was thinking by the time we get to january, we ll see a bit of reversal, at least for the eastern half the country, where temperatures would swing the other way, above average for several days if not a week or two, but we re looking at temperatures to stay about where they are, if not ge
up into minnesota, wisconsin, most of the areas should remain cold enough. you mentioned the warm-up. today the actual temperature tornado expected daytime on the left, how far below the average we re talking. places like atlanta, 17 degrees below average. mid-week, wednesday, thursday, into friday, check out this warm-up in the areas we re talking yellows. around 60 degrees. check out south texas actually getting back into almost the 80s in some cases. that s the warm-up you re talking about. could cause issues as far as melting snow pack an dealing with rain showers associated with that. some folks looking forward to, as far as the rest of us, dropping additional snow pack especially northern to southeastern and still a couple snow bands there and a couple lake effect areas back towards cleveland, outside buffalo. not huge amounts with the event, again, notice the bands still in place outside boston. can still at least accumulate some additional snowfall, alluded to new york city a f