Moisture Off News Today

Hopefully people are inside. as it makes that crawl it dropped a lot of water. >> case i thank you so much. >> to adam klotz, casey was talking about dirty side of the storm, people dont understand what that means, what is the dirty side of the storm. reporter: it is where most of the action is, it is on the eastern side. you can see where this is rotating, picking up that moisture off of the ocean, there is more to the east as that rain and the storm activity hits land. you can spin up tornadoe...

The gulf of mexico is one of the warmest bodies of water anywhere in the earth, which is why we get hurricanes here and its a constant moisture source. an area of low pressure wants to be filled in with ayer and that circulate counterclockwise and continues to pull the moisture off of the gold. take a look at this batch of moisture. this is cloud cover, the darker tops, the stronger the storms. take a look at this. so much moisture is still going to continue to be pulled up here because the stor...

Renee marsh, many thanks to you. lets bring in indra petersen. tell us when the warmth will return. >> how about some travel delays, over four hours. that is what we are currently seeing. this is an alberta clipper. it started off as that just two days ago. light amounts of snow. we r only seeing about 1-2 inches of snow. chicago, lake effect snow, 3 inches. the closer to the coastline, you are getting moisture off of the atlantic. blizzard conditions. 8-12 inches. 4-8 in boston. 6-10 for new yo...

Packed with traffic. but a complete ghost town out here and rush hour was about 1:00 this afternoon. >> yes, you are absolutely right. the whole d.c. area, chad myers is basically already almost paralyzed and it will be worse. it sort of reminds me as a long-time resident of washington of the blizzard back in 1979 when we had 18 or 19 inches, and i remember that very vividly. >> well, you know, it is the same pattern, too. it is bringing in the low, and bringing in the moisture off of the atlant...