this map. 20-degree temperature uncreases widespre widespread. 24 degrees warmer in chicago than we were at this time yesterday. so we re heading in the right direction. so we re going to get a break from the cold pat herb as the jet stream heads out. we get a building ridge here over the west. this is pacific air instead of arctic air. that s going to be a nice warm-up. so for today, north platt can get to 59. dallas a beautiful 62. notice we re still below normal chicago to new york city. we have to wait to sunday in the northeast to get to the warmth. saturday, st. louis jumps up to 60 36 degrees in minneapolis is pretty warm this time of year. and dallas, that s shorts at 68. sunday the warmth starts to surge to the north. even d.c. gets up to 55 degrees. there s a good sign the 60s will make it all the way to the midatlantic by the time we get to monday and tuesday. so the only troublesome weather
degrees. i think we might break a lot of records tonight. forecast low in chattanooga, in north carolina 29 degrees tonight. that is your lowest temperature ever for the state. going across the planes though it is not bad everywhere. breaking records for high temperatures again. north platt with another weekend into the 70s. the warmth is out there not a lot of precipitation. we re going to watch this snow develop through the day today, a little more snow for you guys out there. good time to go to a movie this weekend. it is time go home. can i come into the out now? no you can t. i can, you are just having to take away the piece of hood. an unlikely friendship and behind the animated characters are big names.
we ve put the maps up. i want to show you asking everybody, any signs of spring? some here. these are going to be planted across the street here. planting is going out but a lot of people have to cover your plants you put out already because it s cold. today across the eastern half the country another incredibly cold day. this pattern we ve been in for months and months not breaking at all. very warm across the western part of the u.s. tomorrow we remain warm and remain cold across the east nap is going to continue. today, yeah. clayton, you are absolutely right. a few flurries moving in from new york city across long island and lower areas of new england but some spots, cape cod and the islands, three to five inches. eastern areas, snow. accumulating again. the southeast, chilly. only 53 for a high today in atlanta. a little bit of snow this morning diving across parts of missouri. high plains again another incredibly warm day. 77 degrees in north platte and dry again unfortunately. a
and into the plains. summer is still a couple months away, or at least one month away, and we still have spring to go through, and a severe weather drought and a rain drought for that matter, and it has not been raining in the plains. we will see showers and storms and thunderstorms and some of them will rotate today and tomorrow and in monday. when a storm rotates it gets big and bad and it can put down tornadoses and that s what we have for nebraska and into kansas for today and into tomorrow. and kansas all the way up into north platt. and then for monday, even towards chicago and st. louis and down into oklahoma city and down into arkansas. a storm system that progresses from west to east across the country. we are talking about drought. 2011. i know there was a lot of tornados in 2011, 758 tornados
northwest parts of missouri and southern parts of iowa. many of these watches do go in effect that the overnight hours and 2 of them that are tl called particularly dangerous situation. meaning that s where you can see the longer track very violent tornado including northern oak will home, kansas and also into nebraska and we have a line of storms right here you can see lined up across parts of condition says and oklahoma and these are called super cell thunderstorms and showing rotation and that s why we do have a tornado warning. number of them in effect. north platt i ll show you the one in sail ian north of wichita that there could be a tornado on the ground out here. already spotted. reported by law enforcement and it s impacting the town. unfortunately hopefully everyone has a head up and in a safe place in basement or storm shelter. the weather risk in northern parts of texas up that southern portion of minnesota the hig highest risk zone though is across eastern portions of neb