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Fires. it's associated with droughts in india, droughts in northeast brazil. heavy rain in some other areas. it's a global phenomenon. >> okay. so how -- what role does this flooding play in how we calculate whether we are getting an el nino? >> so i don't think we can link this particular terrible flooding event to an el nino. on average, winter season in the southern u.s., you see more rain if you have a strong el nino. this time of year the link is not very strong. if we see the el nino, looks more and more like we'll see next winter, you're shifting the odds of above normal rainfall in the...

Come? >> on average, anywhere between every three and seven years. >> every three and seven. it's not like a comet, right, so we don't know if it's coming regularly. what do we start looking for to sort of find out why are people increasingly confident that's what we're headed toward? >> we're looking for a few things. we're looking at surface temperatures in parts of the tropical pacific ocean, especially the central pacific and east pacific along the coast of peru. so one signal is you start to see above normal water temperatures at the surface. if those water temperatures are also above nor...

New york city, for the possibility of snow moving your way. and the middle atlantic, freezing rain to start your day. surface temperatures will be at or just below freezing. sunday night, warm air will try to work its way back in into at least southern new england, limiting snow accumulations there. starting through the central plains this is how much snow we think we're going to get. ohio valley, swath of 5 to 8 there. continues off into the northeast with more snow perhaps a couple of inches in new york city before it all goes over to rain. >> thanks greg. just as one crisis is averted, th...

Paula hancocks for us in indonesia. thank you. >> what was the weather when the plane lost contact with the ground? we have cnn meteorologist pedram javaheri who takes a look at the weather search and rescue and the weather the teams are up against. >> the weather across the java sea finally innmproving. there are storms in the area at the last known point with the aircraft. to the north, partly cloudy. to the south, similar story. when you talk about an area in the wet season december is the wettest time of year. you know storms are blossoming in the next couple days. tuesday into wednesday, ...

Officials say at least 20 people died as a result of that storm. or series of them. and some analysts estimate that it may cost our economy $5 billion. janice dean, the weather machine, is in the extreme weather center. i was looking ahead to wednesday and thursday. looks awful. especially across the northeast when the arctic air moves south, the core, the upper midwest and wind chills will be dangerous, minus 20s, minus 30s. minneapolis, struggling to get out of the highs in the single digits and the minus teens. those are overnight temperatures, and, taking a look at your surface temperature...