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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to weather with enthusiasm.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Faylo Kapurum. Good morning. It is Friday, March fourteenth, and
we have one of the most powerful storm systems, a
spring storm system, moving through the Midwest.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
This is for today into tomorrow.
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The National Weather Service has informed us that for some
places we're going to be breaking records for the low pressure.
The pressure will be dipping low enough to be breaking
records in some locations. The impact of that, or the
importance of that for many locations is just a statistic,
but for other locations this will accurately represent the storm
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dynamics of what's going to be happening. Winter stormwatch has
been issued on the backside, where we still have some
Arctic ara that we'll be moving in around the same time.
Total storm accumulations one to three inches per hour possible
in portions of Minnesota, even portions of North.
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Dakota as well.
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Precipitation starts off as rain and thunderstorms transitions over to snow.
The big story over the next twenty four to forty
eight hours is going to be the wind. This includes
a very large portion of the Midwest, including the Chicago area,
and the severe weather expected in the south and the Midwest.
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The severe weather risk.
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Is unusually high for today into tomorrow, with a four
level risk of a four over a large area.
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Four out of five.
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Damaging wind threat is highest in portions of Iowa. Illinois
for today we have The Chicago area has a seventy
more per hour wind gust threat for tonight into tomorrow.
This is tonight for the severe storms tomorrow high wind
watching effect for sixty more per hour wind gusts possible
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there Des Moines, Iowa eighty mile per hour wind gusts
possible during severe storms. We also have a tornad risk.
This includes long tornadoes tornadoes lasting a long time for
Louisiana portions down in the south. The tornado is more
short lived up north here in the Illinois area and
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in the Saint Louis, Missouri area, but tornado threat remains.
Thunderstorms move across the Saint Louis Aria tonight nine to
eleven o'clock PM, and in the Chicago area anywhere between
ten PM and two am, although some of the models
show three am still some thunderstorms. It will be at
a weakening phase here in the Chicago area and in fact,
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when the thunderstorms move across the Chicago area, it does
not coincide with the time of most increased instability, so
we kind of miss out on the most intense possibilities
for things. But nonetheless there remains a hail threat, a
damaging wind threat, and a tornado threat. Area Y tells
us the National Weather Service that includes all of Chicago.
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We also have.
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Record warmth occurring over portions of Illinois today, temperatures going
up to eighty degrees in the south side and west
portions of the Chicago region.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Today.
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Temperature is significantly cooler along the Lake, but we still
should manage to hit seventy at least seventy degrees in
most locations we have also in addition, we have another
really powerful storm possibly developing for the mid portions of
next week. Temperature has become much warmer by midweek next week,
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so we have much colder air moving in for Tomorrow
night here in the Chicago area. In fact, precipitation may
even fall as snow. A couple of snow showers possible
by early Sunday morning, and then the next warm air
comes in for the mid portions of the next week,
and once again for that system precipitation associated with it
at the back end changes over to snow, and there
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could even be some snowfall accumulation even here in the
Chicago area. That's for Wednesday night into Thursday next week.
You know, there is a Pot of Texas expected high
today one hundred and one degrees is being picked up
by numerous computer models, not all of them. The National
Weather Service has gone ahead and issued their official forecast
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for a high temperature of one oh one into the
Pot of Texas this afternoon.
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Why is it so hot there?
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So, it has to do with compressional warming which would
be taking place as the winds blow down the mountain
range in the country of Mexico. But this is also
responsible for playing a role in this very intense low
pressure system here in the Midwest. Twenty eight point nine
strengthens to twenty eight point eight and it remains twenty
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eight point eight to twenty eight point nine over the
next twenty four hours. Very strong storm system which moves
across the upper Midwest, and that's why we don't have
any snow here in the Chicago area.
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The storm moves track as well to our west.
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The heav snow goes across portions of Minnesota again and.
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For North Dakota that's where we really see the.
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Heavy So next week another area of heavy snow again
expected for the upper Midwest. As of right now, that
snow is expected to fall a little bit further east
than the one right now, but things could always change.
The severe weather threat continues on to the East coast.
The Washington Post has a tremendous article about it where
they explain everything thoroughly and they go through the impact
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it's going to have here in the Midwest and the
East Coast and the south central states including the Tennessee
Valley and the Ohio Valley. So you can find more
information about that over there, And of course the National
Weather Service is just jam packed with information in their
forecast discussions for all the various cities. The big criddish
over here for the Chicago region, the most innovative news
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over here, the big shaker here for Chicago is the
following is that almost always here in the Midwest, when
you hear a forecast, you're always gonna hear showers and thunderstorms.
But when you go out to the plains and they're
expecting precipitation, if they're expecting showers and thunderstorms. When you
go out to the plains, and even more so in
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the in the rockies, you'll hear the term thunderstorms and showers.
That means the chances for thunderstorms are higher than the
chances for showers. Well here tonight, here in the Chicago area,
the lush shown the language of the National Weather Service
is thunderstorms likely with showers. So we have the chances
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of showers.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
You know, it's thunderstorms. A line of.
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Thunderstorms will be moving through the area right now. They
look to be intense and quick hitting, but you could
find more information about that on the National Weather Service
website with the most latest update again into weakening phase.
As of right now, it looks like to be quick
hitting for the Chicago area, but it's a long line
of storms passing between ten pm and two am, possibly
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even a.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Little bit later than that.
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I wish everybody are fail looking for him and have
a wonderful Chavis and stay safe, enjoy all of the excitement.
Realize that there is a chance for power outages not
just from the storms tonight, but from the more wide
spread high wind impact event affecting a large portion of
the Midwest, including Chicago for the day tomorrow, Stay safe,
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have a wonderful days. You've been listening to Weather with
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Enthusiasm podcast, Weather Enthusiasts
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And call ufton and that's me, and thank you for listening.