The cold front that brought rain across much of the East Coast from Oct. 7-8 hasn't disappeared. Instead, it's expected to combine with a developing tropical wind and rainstorm off the coast of Florida.
00:00We're going to see gusts of wind between 40 and 60 miles per hour, Anna.
00:03So a lot of impacts, power outages, we're going to see some of them through the mid-Atlantic coast as well.
00:08So this storm also has significant impacts coming to the southeast.
00:12Yeah, it's one of the situations we're going to rewind a little bit here and talk about how this storm ends up forming
00:17because it's off the coast of Florida Friday evening that this storm forms.
00:21And you might notice our iPath, we're issuing this before the storm system has actually developed.
00:26It's a very rare scenario, and we're doing this because we want to give you the most advanced notice.
00:30Make sure that you can prepare for the system and the impacts.
00:34I said we were going to rewind.
00:36We're going to take even one more step back, and then we'll catch up to the impacts there.
00:41So it all relates here.
00:42We're looking at radar, and you can see the tail end of our cold front bringing still some scattered thunderstorms into Georgia, South Carolina.
00:49They're starting to dissipate, and that trend is going to continue as the evening goes on.
00:53However, we don't get rid of the cold front today.
00:56Instead, tomorrow, it moves a little bit further to the south, and it stalls out briefly.
01:01So from Montgomery down through Florida, that's our footprint for the thunderstorms.
01:05You can see where the cold front has already moved through, dropping temperatures down somewhere like Roanoke into the 60s
01:10versus that 83-degree high somewhere like Montgomery.
01:13Let's take a look at future radar, kind of put the pieces together here.
01:17So we have our front.
01:18It continues to bring rain and thunderstorms into places like the Florida Panhandle tomorrow, 3 p.m.
01:23Then, as we head through the evening into Friday, that's when we start to get a move on once again,
01:28and our attention is going to shift to the Atlantic, where our area of low pressure, our storm system, actually develops.
01:33This model doesn't do a great job of depicting it.
01:36However, this is the area that we're talking about.
01:39I want to bring your attention to the coastal flooding.
01:41Jeff was mentioning this a little bit, but I really just want to highlight this is the biggest impact that we are tracking with this storm.
01:47As far as the southeast, we're from North Carolina all the way up through Virginia.
01:51Then we really get into mid-Atlantic territory.
01:53The other thing to keep in mind here, we're highlighting 1 to 3 feet of storm surge for everybody highlighted here in this blue area, coastal inundation.
02:01Some of you, though, could see up to 6 feet of coastal inundation.
02:05That certainly is going to be a high-impact situation, so you want to make sure that you are prepared for this system.
02:13You can see, again, the timeline of how this moves from south to north.
02:16Bring a couple inches of rain.
02:17Again, the coastal flooding is the bigger impact.
02:19Now, if we're out of here, we'll be in the accent of rain.
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