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Hi , this is meteorologist Steve Pelletieri and I am the weatherman . Thanks for checking into theweathermanpodcom On this Saturday . It is the fourth day of January 2025 , and we've got some wintry weather moving into the nation's midsection at this time Now . Basically across the Northeast Corridor it just looks like fair but cold weather , typically early January weather that extends from DC all the way up to the Boston area . But the lake effect , snow showers and squalls are still in effect because the lakes haven't frozen yet . Once they freeze , you don't have that lake effect . With this in mind , it's probably going to be very cold for the next several weeks , so it will be going over to a freezing situation and the east shores of Lake Michigan , lake Superior Huron , lake Erie is actually east southeast of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario . We'll start to get a little bit of a break from all those lake effect snow showers once they freeze over , or at least a big balance of them freezing over the next several weeks . But in the New Yorkork area it does look like generally fair skies . I'm going to give you a forecast for the new york area looks like fair on saturday , just some snow flurries and temperatures generally ranging from 30 to 35 degrees clear cold at night . 20 to 20 , sunday looking good . High pressure across the region will give us fair weather , with temperatures also in the lower freezings near the freezing mark , from dc right up to the boston area . However , that high pressure slips offshore low pressure that's had its origins across the northern pacific , they move into the pacific northwest , get mixed up across the central and northern rocky mountains and then start to reorganize as they get across the western plain states and during the daytime . Today you've got icy conditions in sections of kansas , central northern missouri , southwestern portions of iowa , but heavy snows all across northwestern nebraska into central and western south dakota just a little tip of north dakota because a big high pressure is building down from canada and of course , down the mountains , the eastern mountains this time we're eastern hills , I should say of Montana down in through Wyoming and Colorado , including Denver . That storm is moving eastward . Eventually it will bring snow , sleet and freezing rain and then also some rain all the way across the Ohio Valley , the Tennessee Valley and into the Carolinas and the Virginias , touching into Pennsylvania and touching into New York with a couple of inches of snow probably on Monday . We're going to have more to say on that during the daytime Saturday .

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I'm going to give you an update around 4 pm in the afternoon on Saturday as far as what's going to be happening east of the Mississippi . Up until that time though it looks like dry weather . If you're flying out on Saturday and early Sunday it's really good across the eastern portion of the nation , but it gets tough across the Tennessee Valley . But first let's talk about today . If you're flying today , atlanta's looking good . Charlotte all the way down into South Florida looking good . New York , no problems , even though they might have a few flurries , it's still gusty northwest winds , a few light delays because of the winds . Similar situation up in the Boston area .

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Chicago's dry , looks dry up in Minnesota , but that's again on Saturday . Texas is looking fine . Houston , dallas all the way out in Arizona . Phoenix is fine , of course , when in Phoenix only gets that bad weather when they have the monsoons but also Southern California , san Diego , up to LA , up to San Francisco , all dry . Portland and Seattle rainy weather , another storm working its way in from the Pacific Northwest . So again , I'm going to update around 4 pm on Saturday . So check in and we'll give you some idea of what's going on weather-wise east of the Mississippi as this storm continues to organize and then move over towards much of Virginia , maryland , delmarva and even into Pennsylvania and New Jersey , and that'll be on Monday . I'll have those details for you in the afternoon today . In the meantime , have a great day on your Saturday . It's wintertime . This stuff normally happens . We'll talk to you first thing after 4 pm today . I'm Steve Pelletieri . Thanks for listening .