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Weather-related travel delays could create headaches for holiday travelers this year with poor conditions in the offing for several areas of the United States leading up to Christmas.

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00:00 Major travel problems here over the next couple of days.
00:04 Although you know what, we're going to have some minor problems today, but most of the
00:07 country is fine.
00:08 We're tracking two storms here across the country.
00:12 Here's a weak one, right, into the Plainstates, and then we have this upper low.
00:16 This is going to be our weekend storm.
00:18 And this will cause quite a bit of problems as we move forward here.
00:23 Watch the rain today in the Plainstates.
00:25 It's not going to be a whole lot.
00:26 You see that as we go through Thursday, Thursday night.
00:28 It's only some minor problems here as our storm continues its move to the Northeast.
00:34 There it goes.
00:35 By Friday night, by Thursday night into Friday, we start talking about Chicago.
00:39 We start talking about Oklahoma, toward the Little Rock area, toward Rockford, toward
00:45 Madison on Friday.
00:47 All right, let's take a look at your travel forecast here today.
00:49 Now we have fair conditions.
00:51 I really don't think there's going to be any problems at the airports in Kansas City, Oklahoma
00:56 City, Dallas, San Antonio, or Austin.
00:59 Now if you're doing any traveling on the roadways, roads will be a little wet.
01:02 East Coast is fine.
01:04 Most of the West Coast is fine.
01:05 San Francisco, the rain's off to your south.
01:07 Los Angeles, you're going to have some major delays from Los Angeles toward San Diego,
01:12 especially as we move into the afternoon hours.
01:14 Then that upper low pushes into the Southwest.
01:16 More on that in a second.
01:18 You know, if anything, this might be a little overdone, but it's fair conditions, some wet
01:22 roads.
01:23 There's not going to be a lot of problems at any of the airports.
01:28 Chicago, Kansas City, Little Rock, Dallas, and Houston tomorrow.
01:34 New storm coming into the Northwest as our upper low moves into the Southwest.
01:38 Watch what happens as we head into this weekend, because that storm in the Northwest dives
01:42 southeastward.
01:43 Our upper low pushes across the Southwest, and they kind of come together to form a single
01:48 storm here as we get into Saturday night and Sunday.
01:51 There's going to be quite a bit of snow with this in the Rockies, and certainly into the
01:56 mountains.
01:57 Major travel delays, Interstate 80 across Wyoming, especially Saturday afternoon, Saturday
02:01 night.
02:02 I-70 is going to be impacted.
02:03 I-25 is going to be impacted.
02:06 Mostly I-25 problems late Saturday into Sunday morning.
02:09 About three to six inches in Denver, but several inches around Casper, around Cheyenne.
02:13 There'll be some blowing snow as well.
02:15 On the eastern side of this storm, also some drenching showers and thunderstorms this weekend
02:21 as the Gulf opens up for business.
02:23 Gulf moisture comes northward.
02:25 Here's your dip in the jet stream, and there's going to be some downpours in here Saturday
02:29 night from eastern Oklahoma and Texas, and then Sunday, Sunday night, central Gulf Coast
02:35 states.
02:36 Showers, thunderstorms, some much needed rain in this area, no doubt about that, but there's
02:40 the risk of localized flash flooding, and there's certainly going to be travel delays.
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