Rounds of rain and thunderstorms to soak the Southeast for days to come

It will be a rain-filled weekend across much of the Southeast for the end of September, likely followed immediately by tropical moisture.

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00:00Now, when we look at the country as a whole on radar, you can see there's a lot going on in the

00:03southwest. We're going to get to that in the big three here in just a couple minutes, but I want

00:06to focus in on the southeast, where there's not as much of a severe weather threat, not as much

00:11of a flash flooding threat right now. However, what you're seeing on radar right now, that is

00:17going to continue the next couple of days. We have this flow coming from the gulf that's bringing all

00:22of that gulf moisture northward. We have an area of low pressure that's going to stay parked over

00:27the southeast for the next couple of days. That's why we have rounds of rain and thunderstorms

00:32before we even get to all of the issues from Imelda that Jeff was talking about or what will

00:38become Imelda. So the Carolinas have already really been the focus for today, not in the last hour,

00:44so you're not seeing it on the radar loop here, but we have had a couple of severe thunderstorm warnings

00:47into North Carolina, another severe thunderstorm warning or two into South Carolina. We are getting

00:53rain also into the panhandle of Florida, which is really where we need it when we think about

00:58drought conditions. We've already pretty much wiped out the drought in South Florida. It's really just

01:02down to the panhandle now that we're talking about. So looking at the overall setup for the weekend,

01:10we're going to continue to get rounds of rain and thunderstorms in a lot of the same areas that

01:14we have them tonight. This area highlighted in green here, all because of that area of low pressure,

01:20like I mentioned, and that moisture coming from the Gulf. We're not even talking about the Atlantic

01:23just yet. That changes as we look to Sunday. So the timeline of that graphic with the green I was

01:29showing you, Sunday evening, we look at future radar. We see round after round of rain and

01:33thunderstorms focused into the Carolinas Saturday morning. We get more rounds, but then Sunday we

01:37start to see what becomes Imelda show up on future radar, and you can see our attention really shifts

01:42from the Gulf to the Atlantic, and the rain and thunderstorms we'll get from there.

01:48We'll see you next time.