time tonight, confirmation there has indeed been severe weather, weather channel meteorologist chris warren with us from headquarters in atlanta tonight, chris, good evening. >> good evening to you, brian. it is turning into a very active and dangerous night. the reason, mother nature taking areas that were enjoying spring and even summer-like weather, quickly back into winter, and the result, it's turning out to be dangerous. already reports of tornadoes and injuries in arkansas. let's take a look and show you what's going on, why this is happening, we're seeing this very cold air drop down from canada, and as it does, it's bringing some snow to some areas, even ice, and some storms. this is the threat for this evening, anywhere in red is your best chance for some strong storms, including isolated tornadoes, damaging winds and even some hail. this threat pushes deeper into the south for tomorrow, it goes all the way up into parts of western pennsylvania and then the snowy side during the day tomorrow another foot of snow could fall in some areas so we are seeing a winter storm in spring, b

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good morning i'm meteorologist chris warren with your sech day forecast.rs and thomplz in central and southern floshd. also along the immediate coast a chance for showers. otherwise no chance of rain coming in here throughout parts of west and west and maybe slight chance of snow. the blue is the colder colors in the 40s and 30s. the colder colors go with colder temperatures. chance for snow through minimum sow that and showers through chicago and possibly later on tomorrow. getting off the to weekend a few showers to the north and west of the otherwise starting off pretty nice. and then we're looking at temperatures rebounding as well. instead of quite cool like it was on thursday throughout the southeast, now many spots in the 70s and 80s in texas. dallas, by saturday it will be a chance for showers still in the west and still around the great lakes. and still going to see temperatures in the 70s, close to 80 in parts of south. southwest is still hot. this is where we're going to see that next system really coming out and could potentially monday into tu

. ♪ good morning to you, i'm meteorologist chris warren with your weather channel seven-day forecast.st spots and doled spots and a few warm spots are going to be. today a chance for heavy rain and severe weather throughout parts of southeast here where the rain and thunderstorms. you see some of the red, this will include the panhandle. there could be damaging winds and hail and even tornados. warmer to the south of this area right here. 80s, you look into orlando. but farther to the north, much cooler. 47 in atlanta. and still relatively mild in chicago, louisville, kansas, 50s and 60s. threat for more rain and storms farther to the east on friday. while another system starts to move across the more than tier as well. we'll watch things in the southeast start to get back closer to normal. starting to rebound a bit into the 0s for atlanta. and now washington, d.c. you'll see things warm up into the plains. denver into the 80s. and much of texas, well back in the 70s. now looking at the weekend, still a chance for a little bit of snow for minneapolis on saturday. sunday parts of showe

. >>> i'm meteorologist chris warren with your weather channel seven-day forecast. a look at what we can expect today. and a huge portion of the country will be quiet, but what you'll notice first off is that red. this is where there's a chance for some severe weather and we'll be keeping a close eye at the weather channel throughout the day as that situation develops. otherwise, showers moving into parts of the upper midwest. and behind that, colder air. a lot of blue showing up here. and this is where some of the coldest air is going to be across the country. meanwhile, ahead of this system it's going to be warm. it's not downright hot in some cases. lower 80s today in chicago. those 80s go all the way down to the gulf coast. then 4 tomorrow, for wednesday snow developing, in fact developing overnight tuesday into wednesday. for cheyenne, for denver, and many areas around those spots. and then ahead of that rain, possibly some more showers and storms around the gulf coast. still warm ahead of this system. and you're going to see those temperatures plummet, though,