meteorologist alexandra steele is in for rob marciano today. what are we looking at, alexandra? >> hey, good morning to you guys. yeah, we are seeing snow, even in new york city. all the big cities, boston, new york, philadelphia, a little snow. not much in the way of accumulation, really along the big cities and the 95 corridor, but still you'll see it come down. kind of get new the christmas spirit. we do have winter weather advisories and we will see accumulati accumulations. want to show you where. here's the radar. the white delynn naturing where the snow potentially is falling. some of it called zerba. starts as snow in the atmosphere but the atmosphere is dry but it dissipates so we don't see it at the surface. it does moisten the atmosphere to finally deliver some snow. this is the heart of it. scranton, pennsylvania, southeastern pennsylvania, northwestern new jersey, that's where we're going to get into the snow. morristown, new jersey, for example. but, with this line, a lot of energy with it, could see some severe weather. look at birmingham, down toward montgomery,

alexandra steele is live in atlanta for us. what's going on? >> hey, good morning to you guys. we've got one storm that's gone and one storm that's a massive storm incoming. so let's start with this, all you guys in new york city had snow, for sure, but right now we certainly don't. this has all moved offshore. this was just the rain, but what was left behind? actually black ice there this morning. places like new jersey, six inches of snow. chester, new jersey, five. you can see sunbury, pennsylvania, three. 2 1/2 in mill brooke. the hudson valley and portions of connecticut are seeing black ice as a factor. take it slow, especially the elevated surfaces with temperatures so cold. story number one. story number two, a mammoth storm, this is the water vapor. what you need to see with this is look at this huge trough off the coast. all this moisture is poised to come in. it's actually called, atmospheric river of moisture, just a barrage on the west coast. it's called pineapple express to bring moisture all the way from the hawaiian islands to the west coast. and not just today.

let's get a quick check on the weather with alexandra steele. >> good morning to you guys. quick hitter. rain and snow. we're seeing it move in this morning and will exit this afternoon. and into the early evening. you can see, of course, the white delineating where the snow is predominantly kind of the axis of this main snow is here in southeastern pennsylvania. and also, into northwest new jersey. places like morristown. so the strike on where we'll see one to three inches of snow, harrisburg to allentown, to morristown, new jersey. already some snow falling already in teterboro, and also in suffolk new jersey where the temperature is 2 degrees. in teterboro it's 36 degrees. here's that 1 to 3 inch swath, 2 to 4 inches potentially in garrett county, maryland. also on the southern end, we're seeing rain and lightning. look at this, birmingham, just alive this morning with showers and storms. all making its way toward atlanta, georgia. so, you can only imagine the travel delays we will see at the world's busiest airport develop in a couple of hours. also into new orleans, s

our alexandra steele is here with a look at the forast. well, unbelievable. t area got 48 inches, alexandra? >> 51! >> unbelievable. >> oh. you know, the first big storm really coming in in earnest. if you're a ski lover, snow bird doesn't open until the 17th. but maybe this is a harbinger of things to come for a great snow season in the west. let's take i right now to north dakota to show you what it looks like on saturday there, as well. this first big storm coming in to bismarck. crossing the country, and as it does, it's leaving its mark on a few different notes. what only was the snow, the rain, even severe weather, and even temperatures dropping precipitously behind this. so here's a look at the snow. 51 in snowbird. in montana, 23. salt lake picking up 15 inches. so storm system moving eastward. this is it. this is the cold front. much colder air behind it. temperatures 10 to 20 degrees below average behind this. ahead of it, certainly warmer than average. big picture, warm ahead of the front on the eastern seaboard and the southeast. colder behind it,

meteorologist alexandra steele joins us now from atlanta. >> hi. or the best of it.round the country, so some great travel conditions. there's one calf yet and that's the west coast. good morning, everyone. hope you're waking up to a good friday. around the dealtway in washington, pretty dry. but outside that, around richmond, virginia, a few rain showers. through the delmarva, as well. on the whole this will all dissipate and really end up a pretty sunny day. on the west coast this is just kind of the beginning. a barrage of storms from washington to california coming in for the next few days include that very important wednesday, thursday, friday of next week, again. here's the future cast taking you through the three next days. all the way from the siskiyous to the sierra. heavy mountain snow, a lot of rain at the valleys and really, really rough travel conditions. so that's going to be the only kind of caveat in the country, in terms of planning ahead for the next couple of days. big picture today, we're dry in the northeast, and into philadelphia and new york, b

i want to get straight to alexandra steele. you listen to her and she says despite her losses, it's not so bad considering others have lost lives. but it really is like a ground zero. >> it is. and when you listen to her, i think so many people don't know what to do. i think she is not the exception. she's kind of a rule i bet with what's happening here and unfortunately for stephanie and so many others it's cold and windy and, though, we are seeing more rain coming, unfortunately. i want the show you what's what. area of low pressure that brought this moving out. and for stephanie and everyone along the jersey coast, long island coast, things will improve. here's the area of low pressure for perspective. this is new york. this is long island. so it's south of cape cod. so certainly it is moving east. more or less is a quick hitter. by tomorrow, completely a done deal. east hampton seeing some rain. hartford, a heavy band of rain coming. this is on top of hartford county, four and nine inches of rain. now, temperatures in the m

let's go to alexandra steele for the very latest there.hi, good morning, guys. you know our computer models will show superstorm sandy now they've got a nor'easter for election day. historically weather can and has impacted election. this is today. this is not the nor'easter. area of low pressure develops here in the southeast. this is tuesday, and it has it right on virginia at this point. of course, a very key state. last couple of days, a little bit farther north. a little bit west toward ohio, pennsylvania being impacted. the latest run has it smack on virginia on tuesday. and then really kind of becoming much more of a powerhouse for wednesday. so again historically rain and snow foul weather impacts elections and voter turnout. an inch of rain. about an inch lower for now. inch of snow about a half a percent. foul weather also seems to favor republicans. democrats to get out less if there's foul weather. republicans, even if there's foul weather more apt to go to the voting booth. the wild card this year, millions still dealing witho

let's bring in meteorologist alexandra steele.ust the beginning of when's expected to be a series of intense, powerful storms. >> absolutely. this is the tip of the iceberg. 100-mile-per-hour wind gusts in washington and oregon. the system will ramp up and the peak of it over the weekend. storm totals, again, only so far with the system. about a foot of rain in oregon through california, 6 and 7 inches of rain. and the problem with this system is that it's a warm system so we're not going do see snow even at the highest elevations above 8,000 feet. snow. but when you get rain that high in the mountain this is's when the flooding occurs. this is the current radar. a lot of rain but seeing when's behind this, that's when the system really has energy and so much potential energy. wave one moved through yesterday. wave two, today and tomorrow. the most potent of all of these three waves from the coast and on to the northwest will be wave three and that's through the weekend, saturday and sunday and again because it's so warm, at the h

alexandra steele in for rob -- i don't know about everywhere. alexandra?lbany than on mount rainier. 30 degrees there. 29 in albany. but those guys were prepared. they built a snow cave. they kind of cuddled, and you hear them talk, they have a good sense of humor and they walked themselves down the mountain. certainly in good shape and feeling good. temperatures are cold. we're talking about that. temperatures below average. will continue to be. all those people on long island without power, on the jersey coast without power, temperatures on the low side waking up in the morning, below, you can see in the 30s and 40s from albany to boston all the way to philadelphia. so long island to new jersey, temperatures well below average. on the low side, and then on the high side, too, in the afternoon. temperatures staying in the 40s. so cold air certainly pervasive in the northeast and down to the mid-atlantic. but also looking farther south into the southeast, atlanta, georgia, should be at 61. only 49 today. and as we look a little bit farther back, 50s and 60