00:00Alright, the weather continues in the northwest through this weekend, but change is coming as we head into next week.
00:08Take a look at the satellite today. There's two storms we're tracking.
00:11Today's storm does have a feed of tropical moisture on its southern side, so there will be some heavy rain with this.
00:17The second storm is over Alaska. That's going to produce mostly showers as we go through this weekend.
00:25But another storm bringing heavy rain to the northwest, but this is going to target Oregon, not Washington.
00:32That's where we have the flood threat here over the next 24 to 48 hours.
00:37Some spots in the coastal range and the west slopes of the Cascades will easily pick up over a half a foot of rain,
00:45and we have an AccuWeather local storm max over a foot of rain.
00:48Now, as we go forward, of course we're going to get the heavy rain across parts of Oregon in the next 24 to 48 hours.
00:55But over the weekend, notice when you look at the rainfall projections, not a lot of additional rain in the lowlands as we go through this weekend.
01:05But the one area that will be impacted greatly this weekend will be the Cascades,
01:10because snow levels will be falling well below pass level beginning Friday,
01:16and that will last through the weekend with bursts of heavy snow,
01:19and we'll be measuring over a foot of snow in many of the passes, especially across the Washington Cascades.
01:28Here's the good news for the northwest.
01:30As we get into next week, the jet stream comes a little farther south,
01:34so most of the rain will be going into an area that really could use it, and that'll be California.
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