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Per hour. and we did have three fatalities in a mobile home park there that was in the stony brook area. now our weather pattern for today, we call it the zonal flow, right. our jet stream in the upper air moves basically flat, west to east. we're going to get that kink in it tomorrow here across parts of the plains and that's why we're going to see that rotation in the atmosphere. nothing threatening today, but boy, what a bummer for you, unfortunately, across parts of the midwest. we have snow coming down in milwaukee as well as grand rapids, over towards detroit. it's going to warm up prett...

Who wants it? nobody out there wants it. take a look at the national map today. kind of a benign day overall. we have zonal flow when the jet stream is flat and moves from west to east and we're just looking at rain showers and some snow showers as well. but we're going to get this big kink in it right here for tomorrow. and that means severe weather is going to be back in the forecast. in the meantime we've got snow coming down in milwaukee over towards detroit. we could be picking up a good two to four inches in the detroit metro area. this is going to stay really along i-80 and northward fo...

The problem we've been dealing with has to do with the winds and the upper levels of the atmosphere. zonal flow, when the jet stream moves flatly from west to east and we'll get storm system after storm system tracking in the same areas, bringing these torrential downpours and unfortunately it doesn't look like that pattern is going to break, but today we've got high pressure, which is building into the upper midwest, so the showers and thunderstorms which will be heavy again will be a little bit farther on down to the south so places like iowa, into chicago, milwaukee, who have just been hamm...

A light mix of rain and snow fell there yesterday and this morning there's a frost threat. not good news for gardener dene farmers there. >> weather this weekend is going to be superquiet. we're not talking any severe weather, not talking any snowstorms for once, no extreme heat, no extreme cold. this is going to be a typical spring weekend. and these happen when we get what we call zonal flow. the jet stream is what controls the weather, and we get the big buckles, the big dips, or big arches. when the jet stream goes from the west coast to the east coast, we call it kind of zonal, and that m...