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<div>Lucy is originally from the Boston area but has spent the last four years forecasting and living in Colorado! She stayed in the northeast for her education, graduating Summa Cum Laude from SUNY Oswego with a B.S. in Meteorology. Just a few days after graduation, she made the cross country move to Colorado Springs, CO to begin her career at KKTV, the CBS affiliate. Lucy has covered historic blizzards, tornadoes, windstorms, the largest wildfires in Colorado state history and dust storms ... they truly "get it all" in Colorado! Lucy is excited to forecast on a national level and continue her passion of explaining the science behind the weather!</div>
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Lucy Bergemann

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<p>Rain and snow are on the way for the East Coast this weekend and early next week as a frontal boundary moves north from the Deep South, tapping into significant moisture. The rain, along with isolated severe storms, starts for the Midwest and Mid-South Saturday night but becomes much more widespread by Sunday morning. The entire frontal boundary then pushes into the Northeast, with rain changing over to snow for high elevation spots overnight Sunday into Monday with rain and snow continuing into Tuesday.</p><video src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2023/12/2023-12-08 08-56-19-1702051037052.mp4" controls="true" width="100%"></video><h2>Forecast Rain</h2><p>Pockets of rain 3"+ are possible along I-95, into eastern VA, PA, NY and western New England with 1-3" expected. We will be concerned for this rain to freeze over as temperature drop Sunday night into Monday.</p><p><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2023/12/rain-1702067196535.png">Widespread flood alerts have been issued through the Northeast to account for the incoming rainfall. Don't drive through flooded roadways and watch out for fast running rivers, creeks and streams.</p><p><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2023/12/FLOOD ALERTS-1702070019299.png"></p><h2>Snow</h2><p>The heaviest snow will fall on the backside of the low, mostly through the second half of the day on Sunday through Tuesday. Our higher elevations of the Adirondacks and mountains of New England will be the focus for the heaviest snowfall but a couple inches of fresh snow will be possible through New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Appalachia.</p><p><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2023/12/GFS snow-1702046373875.png">The Weather Prediction Center [WPC] has highlighted the potential for heavy snow in northern New England on Monday and winter storm WATCHES are in effect from Sunday into Monday for the same region. Up to 18" of snow could be possible for the highest peaks.</p><p><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2023/12/snow watch-1702066108109.png"></p><h2>Temperatures</h2><p>Ahead of the front, highs will soar into the 50s and even the lower 60s which will be into record territory along the I-95 corridor including Boston, NYC and D.C. Temperatures will run about 10-20° above average through the weekend! Don't get used to the temps, they will come crashing down with the passing of the frontal boundary Monday into Tuesday.</p><p><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2023/12/records-1702060578084.png"><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2023/12/3 day temps-1702060578082.png"></p><h2>Wind Forecast</h2><p>The other factor will be strong winds, especially along the immediate coastline from Maine to North Carolina. Winds could gust upwards of 40 mph at times Sunday into Monday so be sure to secure anything that can blow away in the wind. Our strongest winds will be overnight Sunday into Monday when power outages could be likely for areas just along and east of the I-95 corridor.</p><p><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2023/12/winds-1702046373872.png">High wind watches are in effect for coastal Maine where gusts will be upwards of 70 mph at times on Monday morning. We anticipate these alerts to be expanded as we get closer with much of coastal New England highlighted under the high wind potential on Monday by the WPC. <img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2023/12/wind-1702067196539.png"></p>

Messy Weekend Forecast for the East Coast

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<p style="margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: #454545;">Rob grew up in South Florida, where daily afternoon storms and hurricanes piqued his interest in meteorology early on. That interest was fostered by his teachers and his father, who one time brought him onto the roof of their home to watch a funnel cloud move through the Everglades several miles away. Years of filmmaking and tv production in high school gradually pushed him toward broadcast meteorology at Florida State University, where he joined and eventually led the student run daily weather show. After graduating with a Bachelors of Science in Meteorology, he began his career at KESQ in Palm Springs, California before heading to KFSN in Fresno and WLOS in Asheville, North Carolina. He has covered a diverse array of extreme weather events, including haboobs and flash flooding in the desert, extreme snow in the Sierra, hurricanes, and Appalachian ice storms. He also enjoys telling stories and reporting about weather issues.

Connect with Rob on <a href="https://twitter.com/WxRobBradley">Twitter</a></span></p>

Rob Bradley

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<p>Storms are returning for yet another weekend in the Deep South and while the severe threat looks to be most intense on Saturday, the Storm Prediction Center [SPC] has highlighted a risk on Friday and Sunday as well. The SPC has been highlighting Saturday's severe weather threat since the beginning of the week, indicating confidence in the threat of strong storms. Friday's storm risk looks to be conditional, meaning certain ingredients must be present in order for severe storms to form. Any storms that fire up will have large hail as the main threat, primarily in the late evening and overnight.</p><p><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2023/12/Screenshot 2023-12-07 063819-1702040924171.png">As mentioned above, Saturday's storm chance looks to be the most widespread and intense, from Middle Tennessee through Alabama, the Mississippi Delta all the way west to East Texas. All modes of severe weather are possible. A few tornadoes are possible, particularly from Shreveport through Nashville.</p><p><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2023/12/sat tors-1702059617765.png">A few storms could be the focus through Friday night but the frontal boundary responsible for the wet weather really gets going into Saturday afternoon and evening. Storms are likely to persist into the overnight, with heavy rain and gusty winds the primary threats. Heavy rain will impact the I-95 corridor and Eastern Seaboard through the day on Sunday with imbedded pockets of severe weather.</p><video src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2023/12/2023-12-08 06-07-50-1702041229971.mp4" controls="true" width="100%"></video><p>In addition to the severe weather threat, heavy rain could cause flooding. Most spots east of the Mississippi River will get at least an inch of rain, but parts of Mississippi through the Carolinas could get 3-4" of rain with locally higher totals possible. This amount of rain over parched soils could cause runoff, ponding on the roadways and rising creeks and rivers. The Weather Prediction Center [WPC] has highlighted much of the Deep South with a low-end flood risk Saturday and Sunday.</p><p><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2023/12/Screenshot 2023-12-08 060634-1702041444726.png">The South could certainly use the rain, where extreme and exceptional drought conditions cover much of the area. Heavy rain over the first week of December put a small dent in some of the worst of the drought conditions, but persistent drought remains widespread in the South and Southeast.</p>

Severe Storm Threat through Sunday for the South

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<p>Steady rain for the northern California coast and mountain snowfall hit the region on Thursday but energy is now pushing east, impacting Utah, Colorado and Wyoming today. Snowfall rates of up to 1/2" per hour could be possible at times, reducing visibility and causing slick travel on I-80, I-70, and other mountain highways. Winter Weather Alerts are in effect for the region into Saturday morning although most snow tapers off by early evening Friday. </p><video src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2023/12/2023-12-08 11-21-40-1702059729325.mp4" controls="true" width="100%"></video><p>Snowfall accumulations will be most impressive through the Tetons of Wyoming, where upwards of half a foot of snow could be possible into the end of this workweek. Again, this is great for ski resorts but will make traveling tough!</p><p><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2023/12/Screenshot 2023-12-07 212026-1702009295371.png">The Centennial State's ski resorts will also see beneficial snow, with some of the highest amounts topping up to 9" in the Steamboat Springs area!</p><p><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2023/12/Screenshot 2023-12-07 164536-1701992749671.jpg"></p>

Snow Hits Colorado & Utah Today

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<p>After a record setting 2022-23 winter season for the Southwest U.S. including 12 atmospheric rivers that brought heavy rain and snow to California, Nevada and the 4 Corners region, the 2023-34 Winter season is getting off to a slower start. In fact, <strong>73% </strong>of western U.S. snow reporting stations are seeing Snow Water Equivalent [SWE] below normal and <strong>42% </strong>of stations are below the 30th percentile for SWE. Some of the most drastic conditions are in the Sierra Nevada and northern Montana. </p><p><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2023/12/Snow_Water_Equivalent_Percent_NRCS_1991-2020_Median_December_5_2023-1702059335494.jpeg">NIDIS attributes the drought conditions due to the minimal precipitation or "snow drought" seen across the region.  In Colorado and Utah, most reporting stations are seeing SWE right around average with the worst of the conditions in the Rio Grande Basin and the Sangre de Cristo mountains of southern Colorado and New Mexico. </p><p>Of course snow drought isn't the only reason why the intermountain west is experiencing drought conditions. A lackluster monsoon season in New Mexico can be blamed for setting up extreme (level 4 out of 5) drought conditions from summer into early fall. In the latest Drought update, the National Integrated Drought Information System with NOAA announced that the southern 4 Corners region of Arizona and New Mexico are experiencing high levels of drought with 96.8% of New Mexico in drought conditions. </p><p><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2023/12/drought-1702059178441.png">Additionally, most of the winter storms so far in the 2023-24 water year (which runs October 1 - September 30) have benefited the Pacific Northwest, as recently as the first week of December when warmer temperatures melted snowpack and lead to rivers running high and subsequent flooding. </p><p>The other factor has been warmer than average temperatures, due in part to a strong El Nino pattern which typically results in warmer temperatures for the western states and northern Rockies. That pattern is likely to continue into the winter months. The other factor with El Nino is the likelihood of drought conditions expanding across the Southwest U.S. which could be trouble for an area that is still recovering from decades-long drought. Despite the active 2022-23 winter and meaningful moisture contributing to low reservoirs across the mountain west, "Lakes Powell and Mead continue to run very low with respect to long-term averages, given the overall dryness and warmth of the last couple of decades" according to Curtis Riganti of the National Drought Mitigation Center in Nebraska. </p>

"Snow Drought" Threatening Western U.S.

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<p>The Northwestern United States has been hammered by wave after wave of rain and snowfall over the last few days, causing rivers to run high and flooding around cities and recent area burn scars. We reached major flood stage and set a new record for river height on the Stillaguamish River in northern Washington of 21.34" which caused the river to overflow its banks into the city of Arlington. Similar issues were seen in Oregon where a state of emergency is in effect due to heavy rain.</p><div class="twitter-tweet" style="display: flex; justify-content: center" data-twitt-post-id="1732980824713404442" src="https://twitter.com/WeatherNation/status/1732980824713404442"></div><p>The reason for the high running rivers is due to a couple of reasons: first we had heavy rain, second we saw record warm temperatures across the PNW which caused a rapid melt of recent snowfall in the Cascades into rivers, creeks and streams. Colder air is coming back into play for the end of the week and weekend so we anticipate snowpack to build back up and flooding to become less of a concern.</p><p>Unfortunately, the wet and unsettled pattern continues for the Pacific Northwest as yet another wave of energy moves onshore late Friday night and continues through Saturday. We will have the opportunity for more rain, and this time snow, as temperatures continue to be cold enough in the high country to support mountain snow.</p><video src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2023/12/2023-12-08 11-28-00-1702060135349.mp4" controls="true" width="100%"></video><p>In terms of additional snowfall Friday into Saturday, we could see 6-12", depending on elevation. In combination with the snow from Friday our mountain peaks could pick up on a foot plus of fresh snowfall. This is good news, especially for the Cascades, where snowpack has significantly melted due to recent warm temperatures and rainfall.</p><p><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2023/12/snow-1702045079318.png"></p>

State of Emergency Issued for Flooding in the PNW

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<p>As temperatures drop across the Northeast a large number of sea turtles are becoming "hypothermic" or "cold-stunned" off the coast of Massachusetts in the cold ocean waters. The New England Aquarium is now treating the sea turtles that have washed ashore and are in critical condition. </p><video src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2023/12/VON_112923_RNE_BOSTON, MA_OVER 200 'COLD-STUNNED' SEA TURTLES ARE TREATED AMID ANNUAL STRANDING SEASON_SF_NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM_NC_E120823-1702052444487.mp4" controls="true" width="100%"></video><p>According to the New England Aquarium "The turtles began to strand on Cape Cod in early November. Staff and volunteers from <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.massaudubon.org/get-outdoors/wildlife-sanctuaries/wellfleet-bay"><strong><em><u>Massachusetts Audubon Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary</u></em></strong></a> have been walking the beaches along Cape Cod Bay in search of cold-stunned turtles and transporting the animals to the Aquarium’s <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.neaq.org/conservation-and-research/studying-and-protecting/sea-turtle-rescue/"><strong><em><u>Sea Turtle Hospital</u></em></strong></a> in Quincy, MA, where they are treated for life-threatening medical conditions resulting from hypothermia and the inability to feed."</p><p>This is not uncommon for late Fall and early Winter due to changing water and temperature patterns. The natural geography of Cape Cod (a hook shape) can mean sea turtles get trapped in Massachusetts bay and unable to swim south into warmer ocean waters. According to the aquarium, "in an unusual occurrence, five cold-stunned sea turtles have washed ashore in Hull and Hingham this season, which could indicate that more turtles in Massachusetts Bay are inhabiting a wider range of locations."</p><p>This season the New England Aquarium has treated 214 sea turtles: 189 critically endangered Kemp’s ridley turtles, 19 green turtles, and six loggerheads. Treatment includes exams, bloodwork and x-rays to treat dehydration, pneumonia and potential fractures. The goal is release the turtles back into the ocean but treatment can take weeks or months depending on the severity of their condition. </p><p>After the initial injuries are treated, staff at the New England Aquarium work with partners to move turtles to other aquariums and rescue facilities, including in North Carolina and Washington, D.C.. The turtles are transported by ground or by air, through the non-profit "Turtles Fly Too" where volunteer pilots transport the sea turtles to other facilities. </p><p style="text-align: start">For the full press release from the New England Aquarium, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.neaq.org/about-us/press-room/press-releases/aquarium-treats-more-than-200-sea-turtles/"><strong><em><u>click here</u></em></strong></a>. </p>

Aquarium Saves Turtles Suffering from Cold

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Dave Holder

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<p>A ridge of high pressure has brought unseasonable warmth to the Western and Central U.S. this week with temperatures running about 10-20° above average Monday through Wednesday. On Thursday, December 7 the temperature climbed into the 50's and 60's, melting any snow in sight. Those wishing for a white Christmas will have to keep on wishing and being patient during this warm weather spell.</p><p><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2023/12/Screenshot 2023-12-07 164954-1701993006310.jpg">Temperatures start to fall on Friday after peaking on Thursday in the North Central Plains. Temperatures fall into the 40s and eventually into the 30s for the High Plains. Temperatures will take a bit longer to fall in the Great Lakes region, eventually cooling off back towards average by Sunday.</p><p><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2023/12/3 day plains-1701980839283.png">Meanwhile, the ridge of high pressure shifts east, and along with it the opportunity for record temperatures. Temperatures region-wide will jump into the 50s and even the 60s, with records possible from Michigan to Maine, and down to our Nation's Capital this weekend!</p><p><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2023/12/NE highs-1701896653620.png"></p>

Brittany Lockley

Record Heat Shifts East This Weekend

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Folks in the Casper, Wyoming to Fort Collins, Colorado area need to watch the weather closely this afternoon and evening because a few severe thunderstorms are expected.

<img class="size-large wp-image-91240" src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2018/05/Capture3-6-728x408.jpg" alt="" width="728" height="408" /> *Severe thunderstorm watch valid for Friday, May 11.*

We are most concerned about big hail and big wind today.

https://twitter.com/WeatherNation/status/995031727134265344

When the watch was originally issued by the Storm Prediction Center, it covered a population of more than 800,000 people. Those in the watch area need to keep an eye to the sky, keep an ear out for thunder, and adhere to instructions within weather alerts!

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^^Some good take-home-info between a weather watch and warning^^

This is just one of a couple of areas with the potential of severe weather today.

<img class="size-large wp-image-91242" src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2018/05/Capture4-6-728x408.jpg" alt="" width="728" height="408" /> Severe weather outlook for Friday, May 11 where dark green shows a marginal risk of severe weather and yellow means a slight risk (higher than marginal).

Marginal Risk = Isolated severe thunderstorms are expected, however limited in coverage and/or duration

Slight Risk = Scattered severe thunderstorms are expected, some more intense and longer-lasting

<img class="size-large wp-image-91243" src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2018/05/Capture5-6-728x408.jpg" alt="" width="728" height="408" /> The forecast radar (colors) and clouds (white) for 6 p.m. central and 5 p.m. mountain time Friday, May 11

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The forecast radar and clouds for the rest of today shows these slow-moving thunderstorms (mainly yellow and red here) moving to the east-northeast. Notice the yellow and reds aren't widespread, meaning these thunderstorms will be here and there, not everywhere.

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The thunderstorms are popping up along a long boundary separating hot and cool air. Record heat is likely across much of the South, while winter storm warnings are in effect for parts of Wyoming!

For WeatherNation, Meteorologist Steve Glazier

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Snow Hits Colorado & Utah Today

Steady rain for the northern California coast

"Snow Drought" Threatening Western U.S.

After a record setting 2022-23 winter season

State of Emergency Issued for Flooding in the PNW

The Northwestern United States has been hamme

Aquarium Saves Turtles Suffering from Cold

As temperatures drop across the Northeast a l

Record Heat Shifts East This Weekend

A ridge of high pressure has brought unseason