Potentially severe storms could cause travel delays this weekend

AccuWeather's Geoff Cornish breaks down how the forecast will affect travel conditions across the country on Aug. 12.

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00:00 Storms might be slowing down if you're traveling through the Northeast and the

00:04 Mid-Atlantic this weekend and across the United States and good looking good if

00:09 you're headed to the West. Jeff Cornish has more on tonight's travel outlook.

00:13 Well we've got some more travel trouble this weekend especially in the Ohio

00:17 Valley and into the interior Northeast. We're going to soon show you the numbers

00:21 for our flight cancellation forecast. Not a huge spike because the I-95 will

00:27 probably scoot through most of the daytime hours on Saturday without too

00:30 much trouble. But here where you can see this cluster of thunderstorms a couple

00:33 of them moving forward in time. Some of these will be severe and we'll look at

00:37 that in just a moment. Now the Western travel scenario looks fantastic. We don't

00:41 have any issues in the West for travel aside from in areas around Phoenix to

00:45 Albuquerque, Santa Fe, some of those areas isolated afternoon storms. It's just a

00:49 hint of monsoon moisture driving that bus. Farther to the Northeast into the

00:53 Northern Plains in the Midwest. We're in good shape, maybe I shouldn't say Midwest,

00:57 but the Northern Plains were in good shape. From St. Louis Northwest it's a

01:00 green light for travel and it's just downright hot farther South. 107 in

01:04 Dallas are flirting with records. Same story in New Orleans at 98 but from a

01:09 travel standpoint as long as you don't break down in that you're gonna be all

01:12 right. Nashville scattered thunderstorms also scattered storms will be possible

01:15 into Miami. Very warm there, it's a hot one. Then we get into some trouble here.

01:19 So Indianapolis scattered storms in the afternoon or in the morning I should say.

01:22 Morning for Indianapolis to Detroit and then through the middle of the day in

01:26 Columbus. Some of those near Columbus could be severe. We could also see some

01:29 severe weather into parts of the interior Northeast too. Buffalo, Montreal

01:32 scattered storminess there. Some significant impacts late in the day in

01:37 New York City. Also scattered storms roll into the rest of I-95 from Philly down

01:41 to DC with some problems. But again the number of flight cancellations not out

01:45 of hand with the timing of the storms rolling in late.