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What happened to it? >> it is getting a comeback now. the winter weather is blowing people away in the south. >> thats my point. global warming. its cold everywhere. >> it didnt warm up enough. you know, whats interesting is it keeps getting colder and colder. people cant seem to pull out of it. >> apparently elsa was arrested. true story. we will have that in this half hour, right? >> thats right. let me tell you about this, it is getting tough in the south, especially with the cold weather m...

The freezer next week. temperatures soaring to the 60s as far north as washington, d.c. that is the good part of this. the bad part is that we have a big storm in the middle of the country. a lot of warm air. thunderstorms. rain. on top ofnñ snow. that means flooding concerns. already they are saying water all over the place. we have thunder sleet. a thunderstorm producing sleet this morning in the chicago area and half an inch of ice on the ground. chicago area, all of northern illinois, now n...

In the mid-atlantic, slammed the south, the northeast. but other regions got their own severe weather. and now were told its all connected. the refrain is so similar from atlanta which got one city-stopping winter storm followed by another. >> its been like nothing ive seen. ive lived here almost 30 years. >> reporter: to the great lakes where 80%-plus of the lakes were iced over for the first time in 20 years. the formations building ice caves. >> these were special. ive never seen anything lik...

Iced over for the first time in 20 years. the buildup forming ice caves. >> these were something special. ive never seen anything like it. they were as big as a garage. >> reporter: so many people in different regions said theyve never seen weather like this winters. over the past week weve reached a point where 49 out of 50 states had snow on the ground. weve seen so-called thunder sleet. captured in this ireport video from a backyard deck in grand meadows, new jersey. but also a punishing drou...

Batch is going to come your way. probably 3 to 4 inches is the real concern for the rest of the night. this is not a major event. this is the tail of the some, the back side of the storm. we call it the wrap around because it wraps around the back side and it brings in the cold air. there you go, baltimore. seeing some snow now. seeing the rain come up into new york, but later on today, later on tonight, this cold air thats here will cut that off, change it back over to sleet and eventually over...

Over to snow probably midnight i would say. baltimore seeing the snow, d.c. seeing it finally end. back up here to new york city, heres the rain and heavier rain you saw earlier. and heres boston now, finally getting out of the way of the precip you saw all day long. heres the new model and heres where the heaviest snow will be. heres the thruway. that would be lake placid. ironically, john, 34 years ago today the winter olympics began in lake placid. tonight they get eight inches of new snow. w...

You saw earlier. and heres boston now, finally getting out of the way of the precip you saw all day long. heres the new model and heres where the heaviest snow will be. heres the thruway. that would be lake placid. ironically, john, 34 years ago today the winter olympics began in lake placid. tonight they get eight inches of new snow. wouldnt sochi like some of that snow? >> i remember it well, thank you very much, chad myers. youre talking about snow shields and thunder sleet. it sounds like so...

>> reporter: to the great lakes where 80 plus percent of the lakes were iced over for the first time in 20 years, the buildup forming ice caves. >> these were something special. ive never seen anything like it. theyre as big as a garage. >> reporter: people in so many different regions say theyve never seen weather like this winters. over the past week, we reached a point where 49 out of 50 states have had snow on the ground. weve seen so-called thundersleet. captured in this i-report video from...

Very menacing. what is thunder sleet? >> it is thunder and sleet happening at the same time. it happened at the university of richmond and southeast virginia today. sleet was coming down so hard that it actually -- think about this. youre wearing just leather shoes. you rub your feet on the polyester carpet and touch the doorknob. thats a shock. thats what was happening there. the shock of the sheer of the sleet up there freezing, bouncing off each other, made static electricity, made a lightnin...

Service is calling thunder sleet, and even lightning, some dramatic images last night at lightning lit up the skyline, and temperatures in the 20s, at least for the next few days. all of this heavy snow will be here for a while, and farmers struggling with the long and severe drought hope thats the case. the slower it takes for it to melt, the more the snow will help out. now it oops the storm door is open. forecasters talking about another chance of snow by next week. >> shepard: in kansas kirk...