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Supercold Weekend!

Stephen Pellettiere
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Hi, this is Bidi Brothers Steve Peldatier, and I'm the Weatherman. Thanks for checking in to the WeathermanPod.com on your Friday. It is the sixth day of the month of February, 2026. And we're looking at sharply colder weather moving in for this weekend. You know, I did all the numbers all the way up to the end of the month, and probably coming up to between three and six degrees below normal. That means December was below normal, January below normal temperature-wise by a lot. On December, January wasn't too bad, started out warming, ended up very cold. And that very cold trend continues right now, and we're going to see some of those uh temperatures down only to near 20 for highs, but the wind chills down to the minus figures for Saturday and Sunday. And uh it looks like we'll be between three and six degrees for the whole month up to the 28th below normal. As far as pre-ship is concerned, you know, it has basically been dry, has been less rainfall, less precipitation uh over the last six to eight months. It looks like that may continue, although we are going to start seeing some coastal storms at around the midmonth period, and they are going to be uh quite heavy both uh from about the 15th to the 28th. So we may get close, but probably again a little bit below normal. As far as snowfalls amount are concerned, we're probably gonna get maybe an inch or two of snow in some places tonight, and then uh maybe some ice around the middle portion of next week. And then you look at one of those storms coming by where it gives you some snow and then it goes over to rains, that type of weather pattern that you see in the month of February, probably coming up uh towards the end of next week and next weekend. But in the meantime, for today, we are looking at uh thickening clouds and temperatures near 32. But tomorrow uh looks like extreme cold. Temperatures near 15 to 20, winds gusting to 50 miles per hour. Overnight tonight and tomorrow morning, some snow showers and squalls could give us a, as I mentioned, a coating to an inch or two of quick accumulating snow, but it'll be blowing around quite a bit because of the winds tomorrow up to 50 miles per hour, and those wind chills of minus 10. Sunday, the winds will start to die down, but you'll have temperatures still only near 20, and the highs could get up to near 30 by Monday and Tuesday, warming up through the middle portion of this upcoming week. Now, if you're traveling by air today, really not too bad for today for the New York area. We're gonna have light winds, but the clouds will be on the increase. And if there's any problems as far as the weather's concerned in New York area, airports, uh, Trenton, Newark, LaGuardia, JFK, even up to the Boston area. It'll be sometime tonight and overnight tonight, as that strong Arctic front, we'll be moving through in very, very turbulent conditions in the lower atmosphere. Really suggests not landing any uh red eyes overnight tonight because of the delays in those strong frontal systems and the strong snow squalls moving on through the area. But during the daytime today, it looks pretty good. Uh, down to Atlanta looks dry, looks like some rain and snow in Charlotte, so it'll be a little bit tougher there. South Florida is looking good. Central and South Florida are all dry. Try in Houston and Dallas. Snow showers and squalls and bitter cold that's arriving here over the weekend. Well, that's moving into Chicago today, so very, very cold. Very, very cold in Minnesota. And it looks like uh LA, San Francisco, generally okay. There is some rain shower action across the San Joaquin Valley, Central and Northern California, and to the border, into Nevada, but it does look like dry Portland and Seattle again today. So basically, no major problems. Well, we do have uh some heavy weather moving into Detroit today, Cleveland, Buffalo. Those places will probably have some delays because of snow, and the same thing into the Pittsburgh area. The strong Arctic front number one moves through around midday. Second one moves through around early evening. That's going to cause quite a bit of uh delays in form of turbulence and because of snow and wind in western Pennsylvania today. But New York area is looking pretty good. Uh Meteorologist Steve Pelletier, and I am the weatherman. We'll have an update on Saturday of the cold, and it's going to be quite tough. We've got two days of really tough weather there, and then we should start to mellow out, and hopefully we'll get back to at least close to normal as we head towards the middle portion of this upcoming week. Make the best of it. Have a great Super Bowl weekend. I'm Meteorologist Steve Pellethieri. Have a great day. Talk to you tomorrow.