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Thursday's Afternoon Forecast

Now, the weather today, we're seeing some rain in parts of the south while parts of the northeast are getting a wintry mix. Plus the cold weather continues for today. But the weekend, well, it's expected to warm things up a little bit. Here's your full forecast. Hello, everybody. I'm storm watch team, meteorologist Mike Riza, with your chatter weather update across the nation. We can see that conditions are variable. We do have colder weather up in the northern Great plains. We have some rainy weather over Texas and the deep south, but also some wintry weather over the northeast. Let's start in the northeast here where we did have one of the, our first wintry weather systems roll through, leave a light accumulation through upstate New York. Vermont, New Hampshire Maine. Northern Massachusetts saw some sleet here but then that front that gets dragged all the way back through the Appalachians into the Ohio Valley. Definitely keeping an eye out for that because that's gonna change weather conditions where the southeast coast saw some record breaking warmth. We're actually going to see now an unsettled stretch as we head into the weekend. A lot of showers setting up from Texas to Florida all the way up to the Carolinas over the course of the weekend and early next week. Whereas the Heartland of, of our country is gonna start seeing some warmer temperatures also as we head into next week too. But the, the west coast now there's, there's a hazard here, especially for the Los Angeles area in South California. We have some strong winds coming from the mountains here and that's gonna produce uh a fire risk, right? For Ventura County, Los Angeles County. So just definitely be aware if you live in this area or, or, or, or, or going to this area, just be careful with any open flames and just watch out for that brush fire risk because it does seem to be at a medium level looking at the air pattern. We are expecting to see the jet stream continue to send some waves of rain out toward the Pacific Northwest and eventually carrying those over the northern areas of the country. But you'll see a surge of warmer air, especially toward the southeast by Monday. And that's gonna actually move all the way up into the Great Plains too. So warmer weather is expected early next week in the heart of the country. So here's that forecast, you'll see that front still dragging some unsettled weather out toward the southeast coast as we head into the weekend. Unfortunately, rounds of showers, even maybe some thunderstorms out toward Georgia and Mississippi, Alabama where is the Pacific northwest? Still dealing with some rain, but at least the upper Great plains will be nice over the weekend. But that southeast definitely gonna be dealing with some excess rain into early on Monday.