♪ take me down to paradise city where the grass is green ♪ >> are we in paradise city in terms of the weather? let's go to indra. >> temperatures 5 to 10 degrees below normal. at least it's dry, conditions are mile on the east coast and it will take that way up until the weekend. so our weather will be changing pretty much in the northeast from everything that's going on right now in the pacific northwest. what are we watching? heavy snow, tons of snow expected in the sierras and even through wyoming and colorado. why so much? there's a huge moisture plume coming from hawaii. look at this guy, stretching across the pacific. that would mean warm conditions and rain. that is intersecting with cold fronts out there. that's stot. >> reporter: we, two fronts, the one making its way across the country bringing heavier rain especially by maybe by thursday into the midwest. that's going to be affecting, of