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Radarestation radarestation, over a foot of rain in the past 48 hours and more rain in store for the regions. we had a tremendous drought across texas. that's being wiped out by all of this rain. so that's the good news. the bad news is all of this rain is coming in a short period of time. the ground is saturated, it has nowhere to go. flash flooding is occurring and imminent. here's your severe weather setup we looked for as the cold front moves in. on the back side snow. over rockies and northern plains into monday there's our severe threat across much of the central u.s. ahead of it very wa...

Ponding on the roadways there will be additional backups as well. here's the next cold pocket. tuesday, wednesday and thursday, it is setting its sights on the great lakes and the northeast. while the southwest starts to improve. still some rain and snow over the four corners as low pressure pulls off to the east. ryan and reena, back to you. >> thank you, justin. here's a nasty sideline to the nasty winter weather. road salt used in the recent snowstorms has made its way to the water supply in philadelphia. yes, road salt. residents in several towns have complained their drinking water tast...

And the mississippi river? can you predict one of these with any accuracy? >> yes. these kind of big outbreaks like this one were foreseen for days in advance. not the exact location of where they'll hit, but the general area of central oklahoma was known days in advance to be the prime threat day there on monday. what happened was a big upper air disturbance, cold pocket aloft up 20,000 feet, 30,000 feet in the atmosphere, came east. at the same time the gulf of mexico moisture was getting stronger and stronger coming in from the south. the meeting up and overlapping of the two kinds of air m...

Not the exact location of where they'll hit, but the general area of central oklahoma was known days in advance to be the prime threat day there on monday. what happened was big upper air disturbance, cold pocket aloft, up 20,000 feet, 30,000 feet in the air came eat. the gulf of mexico moisture was getting stronger and stronger coming to the south. the meeting up and overlapping of the two kinds of air masses made for the vulnerable conditions that allowed explosive thunderstorms and ones that rotate and produce long-lived destructive tornadoes. >> without getting into the politics of it, we ...

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