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Scroll down for details of the special Colorado meeting between Mr. Foot and Stormchaser Vince Webb, and a new video to be posted tonight where we turned the camera on the interviewer.

5:50 PM EST Sunday 2/20/2011

A major storm system will produce major contrasts in weather as it crawls across the Midwest and Upper Great Plains today, with Blizzard Warnings for portions of South Dakota while Ice Storm Warnings cover areas just south of that region. Meanwhile, those in the Southeast and into Central Florida are enjoying a nice weekend with highs back to seasonal levels in the 60's and 70's. For the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, with all remaining hats of residents having been blown out to sea, winds are finally diminishing today with occasional gusts near 20 mph at times.

A MID-ATLANTIC MONDAY: However, the Midwest weather maker is knocking on the door, as Winter Weather Advisories (purple) and Winter Storm Warnings (pink) have been hoisted in Pennsylvania and New York for snow, sleet and freezing rain starting tomorrow. By Monday night, wintry precipitation is also expected from our Potomac Ridge and Valley zone of western Maryland and northern Virginia to central Maryland and the Capital Region of DC and southern Maryland. Will this next slippery winter weather threat extend President's Weekend for school systems? Details in our Winter Stormcast Zones for the Mid-Atlantic (main site | facebook). (Note: Links to regions direct to facebook or main site forecasts)

Affiliate Forecaster Joe Puma from the Puma Weather Center in metro Chicago is also covering this latest winter event for northern Illinois.

Our Southeast Team reports pleasant conditions will prevail today with high pressure in control and showers likely tomorrow. Farther west, a heightened risk of brush fires remains for a large section of the south central U.S. due to very dry conditions, and Red Flag Warnings (pink) are in effect from west Texas into Oklahoma and Kansas.

FORECASTERS ON THE MOVE Storm Chaser Vincent Webb, a senior from Brandon High School in Central Mississippi and member of our Southeast Team, interviewed two famed figures in the weather forecasting universe while attending the 2011 National Storm Chasers Convention in Denver, CO. The first video to is with Meteorologist Mike Bettes of The Weather Channel, and the next features the reknowned Extreme Storm Chaser Reed Trimmer. A few minutes after this shot, Mr. Trimmer went on to speak to the entire convention hall, and even referenced Vince in his talk. Be sure to watch right to the end for a funny signoff.

Congrats Stormchaser Webb for these nicely done interviews! We hope you all enjoy these historical firsts for our team, courtesy of a hard-working high school student willing to do what it takes to help advance the importance of

science education. Yet another example of our team philosophy: If given the chance, students show you they are much more capable than most people expect.

WEATHER BY WORKING TOGETHER Links in the section above lead you to

facebook forecast centers for some regions and main site zones for others. In the coming days and weeks, you will notice an expansion of forecasting content starting to appear on this page.

This improvement will include the posting of individual zones for all our regional forecast teams currently reporting in facebook centers. We hear the plea of teachers and students whom wish to access our pages while in class, but of course are unable if the links direct to facebook instead of a main site zone. By weeks' end, clicking those links will take you first to a zone on this page, with the facebook link embedded within that.

In addition, we will make layout changes in order to improve access in those school systems where the site is not appearing correctly due to screen resolution differences. Thanks to all our loyal readers across the U.S. and in many countries for supporting the work of these inspiring students as they continue to innovate the forecasting of weather and climate...right here on Foot's Forecast.

MULTI-STATE MEETING. Sunday afternoon under a wildly windy sky in the "Mile-High City," Vince Webb and Mr. Foot carved time from their cross-country commute to enjoy a brief lunch in Denver following Vince's attendance to the Storm Chasers Convention. Please check back later this evening as a special interview was recorded of the interviewer. That's right, this time we turned the camera on him! You'll get to hear some inspiring stories of his Yazoo City EF-4 tornado chase last April, how it felt to interview a TV meteorologist and much more.

A toast to our hard-working multi-state forecast team!