Powerful atmospheric river to bring drenching rains, damaging winds to West to bring drenching rains, damaging winds to West All of this comes with wind gusts of around 60 mph due to the low-pressure area you can see moving counterclockwise to the northwest over Portland and Seattle. In such places, it rains so heavily

That they go in the rain of the heights. In the Cascades, that's where the snow transitions and the wind has a lot to go with it so we're seeing rain there right now at 52 degrees in Seattle so the temps are pretty mild. It's all rain

But you can see that there's a huge amount of movement over Puget Sound and that area of low pressure continues to ax more of that moisture from the Pacific Ocean. Then you turn to the northern Rockies and there's more snow blowing toward Yellowstone. And I will continue this matter

The future track shows you that over the next several hours you'll have coastal rain and snow showers in the Cascades and the mountains in the northern Rockies.

The same thing that comes here this weekend Wednesday night into early Thursday is another concern as the Pacific Ocean moisture moves into the northwest and eventually moves away from it. Also to the south that brings more snow to the Cascades

And finally, it's going to show you a lot of rain and snow down south in just a moment but watch this week for the Washington and Oregon coast. Orange could easily indicate 3 to 5 inches of rain in some areas

That could see localized high amounts and then you have snow up to higher elevations but some river flooding is likely over the next few days with some areas reaching minor to moderate flood stages. will Katie

This past weekend the city of Watertown was without a doubt over 40 inches of snow and counting and still plenty of cleanups to be sure to join us with updates now this Watertown Mayor of New York

Geoffrey and Smith Marie think it's been hard to get a lot of you guys to join us in the western part of the state and in Watertown for the past several days so let us know how things are going now but the roads are in residential areas. How are secondary arteries cared for?

In the area we received about 47 in November we have received about 61 of the weekly averages of 102 for snow removal and banks for snow removal because residents are shoveling sidewalks and blowing snow When shoveling, make sure they take plenty of breaks.

But I've got a lot of great partners with New York State Accounting and our partners come in on division and garrison commanders and major general data flight partners of 150 soldiers, many of whom live here in the city of Watertown.

Want to make sure he said we make it safe for them and then you can go to work so they can do a great job for the air of this nation associated with it, so power outages this past. What was the biggest problem with the current update?

Powerful atmospheric river

The National Grid has done a great job restoring power there. You said the winds are blowing. We've blown the snow up high, but a lot of it has been restored. It's really lake-side. There is a narrow strip in terms. Wind in and you can go 15 to 20 miles south or north.

Great job and not a lot of pre-planning they brought it up in advance and especially still seeing some cooler temps across the area you mentioned the roads still have a lot of blind spots. Because we see these huge piles of ice in the future.

On a day when the temperatures continue to rise as crews continue to get out there do you know when we might see and when we expect to see the most dramatic improvements to the roads that are now open? Believe it or not.