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that is it for news, mike hoffman joins us now with the national forecasts. >> are couple of tries comingthe upper midwest and great lakes as we start the week. but the better trough coming into the rockies and the northwest as we head through monday. several areas of precipitation and the disturbance in the southeast, and, we are changing around at the coastline. the northern rockies causing snow even into the interior valleys which is unusual at this time of year because it has turned colder that way. but pretty good trot coming into the west now and we move into the mississippi valley as we go to wednesday. that means snow to the north and rain to the south, not sure where the line will be but it depends on the track of the storm as they come west to east. the next trot coming in on the pacific northwest and another is the lingering offshore. it looks like friday, snowboards, rape center and south. let's go further out. we go to next week, and this will take us to march fourth through march tenth. i still think we will be in the similar weather pattern and with the jet stream moving fr