. >>> mike hoffman with weather. good thing you told me about that storm that wouldn't move. i thought there was a rip in space time and i was in a time loop. same then over and over. >> week before it started moving. >> and didn't even get much rain. >> some did. we are be lookinga at the drought monitor. the area that really needed rain didn't get it. obviously from that storm system. it did help parts of the great lakes but from southern iowa into southern illinois and indiana those areas got smaller amounts generally out of that. the real bad areas obviously are from southern kansas down to the mexican border. those areas just continue to basically have a horrible situation and unless we get a change in the weather pattern which we don't expect, you know it's real yes just going to turn into a disaster into next year. we can always hope. here is the jet stream into monday. pretty good cut off though this one won't sit there to long. ridge builds into the plains and the great lakes and that will give you a nice warm up for several days the way it looks, this does start to

. >>> mike hoffman is here to help us bring in the month of november. are we going to get a cold mass of arctic air? >> i see some shots of cold air coming early in november but i don't see it lasting quite yet, at least right now. that's something we will have to watch many as far as the drought monitor is concerned, we always show you at this time of the week, it's not good news for the southern half of the plains as it has been this entire growing season and looks like the dry conditions back into the four corner area as well. same thing over the southeast, georgia, south carolina and then you can see the area from illinois into iowa and minnesota that's actually continuing to dry off so that's not good news for that area. we do see the cold shots coming in and that will spread showers southward as well as we head through the month of november. i don't see a big end to this any time soon. let's check things out. there is the jet stream as we start the week. a trough moving through the great lakes, that will spread rain though some snow showers, highe