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00:00work week with America's Morning Headquarters. I'm Jen Carfagno. I'm Lynette Charles from Coast
00:04to Coast. The Weather Channel has you covered. All right, let's take a look outside because
00:07we've got all the Friday feels out there. You get a little taste of spring. Spring training
00:13is underway and Mother Nature is ushering in the season with a few showers, maybe some storms at
00:18a few ballparks. The Tampa Bay Rays will see some showers at both their temporary home and their
00:23modified digs. Yes, their old home was ripped up by Hurricane Milton two years ago. So they played
00:28here at Steinbrenner Field. They are in Port Charlotte for spring training and we're actually
00:33going to take you there a little later this morning. So far, so good. And believe it or not,
00:38this looks better than it has. Less fog out there. And these are at the moment are not making rain.
00:43These clouds aren't dropping any raindrops. We'll take that, right? And those temperatures in the
00:46mid-70s. Well, baseball fans, you know, when you can hear that thunder, you're close enough to be
00:51struck by the lightning. I know. So take it seriously. The thunder roars go indoors. But I like that one
00:55strike and you're toast. Me too. All right. Let's talk about what's actually happening out there on
01:00the beaches. This goes for everywhere, not just in the ballparks, but I know they're trying to get
01:04folks' attention about the changing seasons and heading out to the parks, the ballpark, stadiums
01:09outside, et cetera. At the beaches, one strike and you're out for sure when it comes to lightning. Now,
01:14we haven't had a lot of lightning here at Panama City Beach. At the moment, I can't see rain, but
01:19there
01:20has been some showers and you see the waves rolling in here, not the typical calm surf that
01:24you like so much. And of course, when you get those thunderstorms, you're going to get some heavier
01:27rain under that. But again, it's not going to do a whole lot. Again, we'll take what we can get
01:32in
01:32the short term. As we go into Orlando on your Friday, your Friday night, your Saturday, we will be
01:38dealing with some of those showers coming in across the area. You see that temperature for today coming in
01:42about 81 degrees. That's more like it, Florida. We can see now not a whole lot happening across the
01:47peninsula. We can see back off towards the Panhandle, some thunderstorms moving across
01:51Pensacola right now, dealing with some lightning. Nothing is severe. And you know, the criteria for
01:56severe does not mean lightning, although lightning is dangerous, of course, on its own. So just make
02:00sure you keep your eye to the sky for today. Cedar Key. Yeah, we're going to be dealing with some
02:04of
02:04the heavier rain. The thunderstorms beginning to move in here as we go towards about five o'clock,
02:08six o'clock. If you have plans in Orlando, just showed you that forecast. Yes, it'll continue to bear
02:13down on you as we go in through the evening hours. Tampa, you'll be getting in on this as well.
02:17Even as we work our way into your tomorrow morning, we'll see these areas around Vero Beach
02:21with some thunderstorm activity. Jacksonville, you could be dealing with some thunderstorms
02:25as well. And you know, some of these areas, you're going to get hit more than once. So don't think
02:28that you're out of the woods once you get that first round coming in across the area. So how much
02:34are we talking? Yeah, you look at a place possibly like Orlando, where it looks like possibly one to
02:38two inches of some rainfall right through your Sunday. Yeah, it looks good. But you have to know that
02:43these numbers are really down. I'll show you those in just a matter of moments.
02:47The drought is going to continue to expand. Look at this. 67% of the state is an extreme drought,
02:52largest area of extreme drought on record. And you can see what I'm talking about right here.
02:56Look at all of the red coloring. That's the extreme drought that we do have there.
03:00So it's not a good situation. We are dealing with some fires. We do have the national fire right now.
03:070% contained. Acres burned close to 26,000 here. And where we actually need that rain around the
03:14fires, we're not actually going to get it. So that's not a good look at all. This goes into
03:18motion. We can see what's happening around West Palm Beach. More showers and thunderstorms coming
03:22in here as we head towards your Saturday. More of the same down off towards Fort Lauderdale as we
03:26head into your Saturday as well. And we're working with more of the same as we head towards the other
03:31side of the state, the western part, St. Petersburg, Tampa, more of the same there. That is going to be
03:35what we have as we go in through the weekend. And in terms, again, of the drought, we are going
03:39to
03:39be watching for not good conditions. But moisture is moisture, Jen. And we will take some winter snow
03:46out there as well. Oh, indeed. Diggle. Rains right now in Ashland or in New York, right? It's kind of
03:53showing us the weather. First up, it's the Midwest. That's in the northern plains. That's where we could
03:56see a couple of snowflakes with this next system. And it is a clipper. I mean, it's a quick mover.
04:01It
04:01doesn't bring a ton of snow. It does bring in some cold air behind it. And you can see that
04:04in
04:04Grand Rapids, Michigan, with a little snow Saturday. It moves out pretty quickly Saturday
04:09night. But temperatures then drop to 15 degrees. The story of our winter. Some snow and then the
04:14cold. And there is a little bit of snow out there, mostly one to three inches from Montana
04:18into North Dakota, South Dakota. There might be some pockets of heavier snow running that
04:22three to five inch range. So snow plows out for that. Southern Minnesota. In Minneapolis,
04:28southern suburbs might be getting some snow out of this. It's kind of crept up a little farther
04:31to the north. That track trend might take Chicago out of really getting too much out of this,
04:37though, and put it more into Wisconsin and then lower Michigan. And you watch that happening as we
04:41get through the day on Saturday. So Saturday morning, wake up to a little snow. And then
04:45throughout the afternoon, that's moving over to Wisconsin and into lower Michigan. That's when
04:49your snow in Grand Rapids is coming in. And if you're going to get any snow in Chicago,
04:53it would be the second half of Saturday where you get the snow showers coming through. All right,
04:59by Saturday night, we're keeping an eye on this here in the Northeast. Looking out to the west,
05:03Cleveland, a little snow coming out of this. Buffalo, you also see that overnight while you're
05:08sleeping. Syracuse, new snow showers falling. You wake up in the morning, get ready for church,
05:12and you look outside and there's new snow that you've got to clear off your car. Snow showers in
05:16Albany and up towards Burlington, Pennsylvania, too. In northern Pennsylvania, there's a chance of it.
05:21Philly, probably not. New York City, if he has to whether you get much falling or you probably
05:25won't get anything sticking. But even what you see falling from the sky will probably be a mixed
05:30precip type. But it moves out quick. It's not a big accumulating snow. This is not another big
05:35nor'easter, Lynette, here. So much easier to deal with here this weekend. Yes, for sure. But you know
05:40what? You're out. And this is why we say if you don't have to go out on the roadways, don't
05:44when we're
05:44talking about the wintry weather. All right. So for Indianapolis on your Sunday, we're going to be
05:48dealing with the clouds out there. Sunday night, that's when the snow showers come in. You can see those
05:51temperatures taking a dip. By your Monday morning, we could be still dealing with some lingering
05:55snow showers moving in. So there's the cold front behind it. Yes, we're still going to be dealing
05:59with the freezing temperatures here. But we also do have that moisture. So that moisture
06:04overruns that colder air. So yeah, that's a bit problematic, right? That's when we're starting to
06:09talk about different precip types out there. So we will have some sleet. We will have some rain. Of
06:14course, we will have some snow. As we look at the snow total forecast Sunday through Monday. Now,
06:19I'm trying to keep you guys, you know, in tune with what's going on because we have several systems
06:24that are going to be coming through the area. So you can see this fine line here, that darker teal,
06:28that could be about one to three inches of some snowfall coming in across the area. Let's go ahead
06:32and time it out for you on your Sunday. Sunday afternoon, evening around Quincy, we could start
06:37you out with some snow, possibly a little bit of rain, some snow mixing in. But further to the south,
06:41that's where the warmer temperatures are. And that's where you're going to be dealing with plain
06:44rain around Bowling Green. You'll see this around Springfield as well. Indianapolis, though,
06:48looks like all snow for you. Columbus, you're going to be dealing with it too. So across that Ohio Valley,
06:52yeah, that's where we'll be dealing with some of that snow coming in. Now, Monday morning,
06:56look what happens. It doesn't just stop there. It continues to stretch on off towards the east.
07:00So West Virginia, the state, definitely going to be getting in on this. Charleston,
07:04you could be dealing in with some rain, some snow coming in as well. You know, Jen,
07:09this is something that we're going to be watching as we go in through your Monday,
07:12but it doesn't stop here. We have more. It's just so active. I know it's a very active pattern.
07:16And we talked about the potential for snow in through the northern tier for next week. We talked about
07:21that yesterday. I want to show you where we're at today. Because, yes, even in that spot where
07:25they like, fantasies like to go to get warm during the winter months, it got cold there too.
07:29Yeah, that's sad. We'll talk more about that. All right, get some more interesting video with
07:33the TWC streaming app. More than half a century since Neil Armstrong first walked on the moon,
07:39another NASA astronaut is on the launch pad, aiming to take one more giant leap for mankind.
07:44Victor Glover will become the first African American to go into lunar orbit as part of the
07:50Artemis II mission. He's today's focus of our ongoing series, Faces of Change, Making Black History.
07:57And he's been in quarantine twice now in an effort to try to get back around the moon.
08:03So right where we are right now with Artemis II. So that's rolled back to the VAB. There was a
08:08much
08:08anticipated press conference at 10 o'clock this morning. So this is breaking news. And we heard in the
08:14press conference that the April launch dates might be a no-go. And that was literally the
08:19word, the term, the phrase used in this based on everything that they want to do, everything
08:24that they want to fix now that Artemis II and SLS is back in the VAB, what they need to
08:29change out,
08:29and the wet dress rehearsal that they want to redo after this. Yeah, so there are several of the
08:34April dates, but like you said, now they may be a no-go possibly. That has not been definitively
08:38said, but it seems like that is what came out of the press conference. Also really importantly,
08:42NASA administrator Jared Isaacman spoke and talked about this Artemis II, 2026, Artemis III,
08:492027, which will be a similar launch as 2020 as Artemis II. Wasn't it for so many? Meteorological
08:57winter ends tomorrow. Meteorological spring starts on Sunday. So it's a good time to check in
09:02with the winter severity index and see where we are at. Now take a moment to look at the map
09:08where you've got the red dots. That's mild. And in many cases, we had record mild winters,
09:14not necessarily a good thing. It's just how the stats line up, right? Moderate, average,
09:20those are orange and yellow. Severe, that's blue. The purple is extreme and extreme winters were had
09:27all the way from the northeast down into parts of the south, even in Florida would be considered an
09:32extreme winter. So there's some things to know about this accumulated winter season, severe severity
09:38index. This is done by the Midwest Climate Center and it's trying to kind of streamline what exactly,
09:45how can you identify what your winter was like? Well, it includes intensity and persistence of cold,
09:50frequency and amount of snow and depth of duration of snow cover. And that factored into so many
09:56different spots. So we take a look at a spot like New York City, for example. And here, I mean,
10:03there was so many sides to our story. There was snowy side and there was a cold side. Let's talk
10:08about the cold side into New York City. We were warm to start and then it got cold and then
10:13it stayed
10:14cold. So we had a lot of days that were below average here in January and then in February in
10:19New York
10:19City. And that was the case for so many. That's why your snow stuck around for so long for so
10:23many here
10:24through the Northeast. We had some record lengths of time that snow was on the ground and spots like
10:28D.C. and Philadelphia running a top length of time as well. Snowfall above average. And we really just
10:34had those two big storms that contributed so much to cities like Boston and New York and Philly with
10:39your snow, Winterstorm Fern and Hernando. But then we had a lot of days of just regular system snow that
10:45happened in spots like Syracuse and Scranton and even Pittsburgh. And that pushed us above average.
10:51Although you got some snow out of the big ones too, including Winterstorm Fern there.
10:54So we ended up with a severe or extreme winter here across the Northeast in a lot of spots. Now,
11:01believe it or not, when you tally it up into Boston, it's just average. It's just kind of the way
11:05it
11:05should be, right? Which is interesting. We had severe winter too in the Midwest. The winter in the
11:10Midwest was kind of cut in half. Severe here to the east. And then to the west, it was a
11:16mild winter or
11:17very, very least an average winter. A place like Marquette was 62 inches above average
11:22and counting. It has been an extreme winter for you simply because the amount and magnitude of snowfall
11:28that you have had. Now to the south, it was kind of a mixed bag. You know, in Arkansas, we've
11:33had a
11:33severe winter. We had snow on the ground in Little Rock for 11 days. That's a big deal for us.
11:40And that
11:40was just part of the snowy story that you had. And it was the combination of the snow falling and
11:44the
11:44cold that stuck around that really made it so extreme. Another spot is Orlando. And you fall into the
11:50bucket of having a tough winter, a severe winter. And, you know, it's hard to complain about winter
11:54in Orlando. But we did have a lot of cold times. And it was these cold snaps, especially the cold
11:59snap that we had in the beginning of February, the end of January, beginning of February, and then the
12:04most recent one as well that really stuck around. And you kind of remember, if you remember the worst
12:09of the winter, that's probably what you're thinking. And then to the west, where so many spots,
12:14in fact, almost all but one was a mild winter. In many cases, it was a record mild. And this
12:21is a
12:21problem. Yes, temperatures might be kind of comfortable out there. But it was the top three
12:25warmest in so many spots in Denver and Casper. And that helped with this, unfortunately, keep the
12:31snow down. So you saw below average snow, Cheyenne and Casper and Bismarck below average as well.
12:37Valentine more than a foot below average with snowfall. Denver, the most 60 or 50 plus degree days on
12:43record, the most 60 plus days on record, the most 70 plus days on record. And look at our forecast.
12:48We are going to wrap up meteorological winter with a nearly 70 degree day, 69 degrees tomorrow. It's
12:53kind of fitting considering what we've had this season. And then you look at the west of the hole,
12:57a top warmest on record, top one, top three, maybe top three. We got some snow. We just got that
13:02recent big snow, snowstorm in the Sierra. But it really wasn't enough. And this is the problem with
13:08a warm winter is that you don't get the snowpack. And that snowpack is so important year round
13:12when it comes to the west and water use year round. So you can see that little jump that we
13:16just had with that big Sierra barrage of storms. It wasn't the wettest snow. It was actually kind
13:22of a drier snow. And even though it added up to feet upon feet of snowfall, it kept us actually
13:27below average big time with that snow water equivalent. We still have time to go. We snow
13:31even after meteorological winter happens out here in the west. But it's just a recap of where we've been.
13:38At times, not a fun drive for some of you right now. I'm going to show you where that is.
13:42Yeah, it sure has. So let's talk about it a little bit more. But we're going to talk about it
13:46with the
13:46red flag warning that we have for places like Sioux City. We're looking at this around Alliance.
13:50Casper, you're in this as well. So around the front range, Kansas City, Quincy, you're in this. So
13:55very dry conditions out there. Relative humidity is not looking good at all. We're looking at these
13:59numbers in the 40s and the 20s in some spot. Look at Las Cruces coming in at 13%
14:04as we move into the afternoon. So this is going to be the name of the game as we go
14:08through the rest
14:08of your today as we go towards tomorrow. Now, yes, you start to see some green. That green,
14:13that's more moisture that comes in here as we go into the morning hours. But as the temperatures
14:17heat up during the day, of course, we dry out in the afternoon. And that's where we get the lowest
14:21relative humidity. So we do have the dry conditions out there. And we're also dealing with the windy
14:26conditions as well. So still quite breezy in places like Amarillo as we continue through the rest of
14:30here today around Oklahoma City, Wichita Falls. We'll have those gusts about 20 to 25 miles an
14:35hour. And check this out. We also have some very warm temperatures. This is just downright hot.
14:41First 100 of 2026 ties the record for all-time hottest U.S. winter temperatures. This is 104 near
14:49La Puerta, Texas. So yeah, this is ridiculously hot. Again, we're talking about this in Texas.
14:55You know, when we're talking about Death Valley, possibly we could see that. But, you know, this is
15:00really ridiculous. And it is going to continue in terms of these temperatures being on the hot side.
15:06San Antonio for today going with about 87 degrees. Yesterday, we had some temperatures that were in
15:10the 90s. Warmest February to date on record in Phoenix. And look at the temperatures. They are going
15:16to soar as we go in through the weekend with all that sunshine. The jet stream shifts onto the south.
15:21So yes, we're going to continue with this as we head towards your tomorrow as well. And of course,
15:25we're dealing with plenty of records, Jen. Big news from NASA this morning, too. We are still
15:30waiting to hear when it will launch. It recently returned to the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy
15:35Space Center to undergo repairs following an issue with the flow of helium. They discovered that after
15:41the most recent wet dress rehearsal. So there is the potential for the April dates for launch.
15:48That doesn't, I think, look optimistic, but there is certainly the chance for that.
15:52And then the plan is that Artemis 2 will launch at some point in 2026, then Artemis 3 in 2027,
15:59and then Artemis 4 back to the moon in 2028. We'll talk about the blizzard of 2026 or Winter
16:06Storm Hernando, as we named it. But let's move on to what comes next because, of course,
16:10the weather keeps on going. Now, in the north, we've got a couple of systems swinging through
16:15this weekend. One will come through Saturday, bringing snow to La Crosse, Wisconsin. It's
16:20temps in the 20s, so it's snow, but then it gets even colder behind it with temps dropping down
16:25to five. So kind of pure Clipper fashion. It's quick moving. It doesn't drop a ton of snow,
16:31but you still have a couple of inches out there. And behind it, it does get colder yet again.
16:36Bismarck, Aberdeen, probably north of Sioux Falls, maybe Minneapolis, especially the southern
16:41suburbs. La Crosse, we showed you. And with the tractors a little farther north, Chicago,
16:46you're probably out of it, not getting much out of this one. You can't rule out a few snowflakes
16:49flying around, but not expecting much accumulation there. Then Saturday night,
16:53this moves into the northeast, and we've got some snow chances in Buffalo, back towards Cleveland,
16:5811 o'clock or so. It's late. It's while you're sleeping around Syracuse. You've got snow in northern
17:03Pennsylvania, too. I-80, actually, snowy. Northern Jersey, a little bit of snow. But it's pretty quick
17:08moving. So not sticking around long enough to really give that much accumulation. Maybe an inch
17:13or two, three, some mountain spots could see that. I think where you end up with a track of the
17:18low,
17:19perhaps we end up with some more intense snowfall. But again, it's one to three inches. It's not much
17:24more than that. It's not the kind of snow like we just had from winter storm Hernando. And this season
17:28has really pushed us up over the edge. We're going to talk more about this coming up, the kind of
17:33season
17:33that we've had. But well above average in most spots. Not all for the same reason. But whatever
17:39it took, Lynette, got us above average for snow. Exactly. A lot of people are sick of it. But we
17:43do
17:43have another system to talk about, right? Because we're not done quite yet. So let's talk about the
17:47one Sunday through Monday into Tuesday as well. And you're going to pick up another one after that.
17:51But we look at a place like Springfield, Illinois, and we are dry as we head towards Sunday. But Sunday
17:56night, that's when we start to see more of that snow coming in. So we go from the 40s to
17:59the 20s.
18:00The snow will move in as we do have that cold front past us. So the cold air is definitely
18:05in place in a lot of spots. But we also do have some warming going on as well. As that
18:09happens, we are not only going to just see the snow. We're going to be dealing with possibly
18:14some rain, some snow. Further to the south, we will be dealing with that plain rain coming
18:17in across the area. In terms of the snow, though, Sunday through Monday, we can see the
18:21swath there, the darker blue color. That is where we can see maybe about one to three inches
18:26of some snowfall coming in. Let's go ahead and time this out for you because we start to see
18:29this moving in as we go into your Sunday evening. Quincy, you'll be getting in on that snow,
18:33moving over towards Indianapolis, around Columbus as well, keeping on over towards the east here.
18:40So we're going to be watching this around D.C. Pittsburgh is going to get to you, just
18:44I should say to the south of you. Cumberland, you're going to be getting on this. That's
18:47in western Maryland. So the mountains, you'll be getting this as well. And then look how this
18:51comes in as we go towards your Monday. You think it's staying further to the south,
18:54but then it starts to move on up to the north as well. So places like Philly, you'll be getting
18:58in on some of this action as well before it's all said and done. Jen? Okay, well then let's take
19:03it
19:03into the next one. It is such a busy week. We stay wintry to the north. And our next system
19:10that we'll be tracking spreads out. You can see kind of the wide wingspan of it. Well, first of all,
19:15the cold air. I mean, the cold air is to the north. This is not untypical for this time in
19:19the season.
19:20The National Hurricane Center just put out their latest, their summary, their post-storm summary
19:24from Hurricane Melissa. And so that's why we're talking about that today in this week is that
19:28information just came out. And a couple of important updates here. And one pretty important
19:33one about the winds. It was 185 mile per hour at landfall, but the peak winds were actually a
19:39little bit higher. Exactly. So we look at this, Melissa 2025 and Allen in 1980. So they kind of tied
19:45there at 190. And then you have Dorian coming in at 2019 at 185. Yeah. So Melissa tying,
19:51tying for the strongest hurricane in the Atlantic Basin with Allen. And that's based on wind. There
19:56are different ways to measure the strength of a hurricane. Another way is to measure it by pressure
20:01as well. Remember when it made landfall, it was 185 miles per hour. Could it have been stronger?
20:06Um, this, they, they go and do these post-season analysis to look at satellite estimates, to use
20:13the flight level data that they have. They, they agree that they can't, they didn't sample the worst
20:18of the storm. They just couldn't get into it. So, um, this is all based on what they can garner.
20:23Exactly. And the pressure, 897 millibars. So very low pressure there. Uh, this is October 28th,
20:29just recapping that. And this is what Jen was talking about off the bat here. Jen, click it again.
20:33This is the national hurricane center advisory. So that's what you're seeing in white. And then
20:38the final report came out. So you can see a little bit of change in that report. So they updated
20:42October
20:4326th, but the big one was right here with those ones, October 28th. Yeah. I mean, look, when you're
20:47in the, you're in there in the woods in the middle of it, it's, they're, uh, getting out the best
20:52information when it comes to warning people and saving life and property. And then after the fact,
20:56you can go back and revise as needed. So again, 190 miles per hour, right before it hit land.
21:03Let's take you back to that. Just what a scene as we watch this powerful storm out over the Atlantic
21:08here and then have nowhere to go, but over Jamaica. Exactly. And not only over Jamaica,
21:13then it went over Cuba as well. And then on off to the North there. Yes. All right. And that,
21:17uh, that was the 2025 season here with no hurricane landfalls in the U S it was two hurricane season.
21:25Spring training is always fun. We've got to look at the forecast for you in Port Charlotte
21:29for the rays. And I mean, it looks pretty good to me. That's amazing. 80s and plenty of sunshine.
21:35I would take that all day. Don't forget the sunscreen. That sun angle this time of year,
21:40it's kind of like mid October. It is. So you can still get sunburned. In fact,
21:45you will get sunburned because you haven't been out in the sun all year. If you're coming down from the
21:48north here. Exactly. So let's go to another one. We're going to be watching what's happening,
21:52uh, with, uh, car racing, right? We had this one as we can see what's going on. Uh,
21:57this is an Alliance field, but this is not car racing quite yet, right? This is still soccer.
22:01Mm-hmm. Uh, and I, what I love about soccer in MLS season is underway. Right. Um,
22:06is that there's so many out there. They're mostly out there stadiums. And so you get into the weather.
22:10Exactly. We have some snow showers here. Yeah. And that temperature coming in right around 18 degrees
22:14there. Uh, we can see Chicago. This is for tomorrow, uh, Chicago going to taking on Montreal and we can
22:20see
22:20the temperatures in the thirties. We do have those clouds around, uh, that one doesn't look too bad.
22:24That's why I say the weather is relative because when you compare it to that 18 that we saw in
22:27the
22:27other game, that is true. As a soccer mom, I know, like you got to bundle up at some of
22:32these
22:33games. So it can be a cold sport outside. Meanwhile, here is the racing that you're talking about,
22:37the Grand Prix in Austin, Texas. That was beautiful. This looks great. I don't,
22:41I really don't know a lot about car racing, but it seems like this would be good. It does. Look
22:44at all that
22:45sunshine there. Uh, we'll see another one, St. Petersburg, plenty of sunshine,
22:48temperatures in the seventies. I mean, enjoy. Yes. Some good weather for glasses,
22:54especially the Southern sports this upcoming weekend. Love it.
23:27I mean, enjoy.
23:56You