00:00Well, plenty of wildfires in the last couple of days in the southeast, especially Georgia, South Carolina, and down into
00:06Florida.
00:06The air quality alerts, though, those are isolated to the Atlanta metro, and then through much of South Carolina, we're
00:14seeing a lot of smoke.
00:15And unfortunately, the conditions the next couple of days are just not really going to help here.
00:20We are going to start to see more rain and thunderstorms moving into the region, but it's spotty, severe weather,
00:26not the widespread, washout, heavy rainfall that we need, though there are some areas that could see some flash flooding.
00:34So Thursday, most of the region stays dry and warm.
00:38Some thunderstorms start to creep their way into Louisiana, but this isn't really where we need them.
00:42We look ahead to your highs overall.
00:46We're trending well above where we should be this time of year, certainly feeling like late spring, early summer in
00:52places like Nashville, Atlanta.
00:54We're more in the ballpark throughout Florida of where we should be this time of year when it comes to
00:59our temperatures for Thursday.
01:01Now the rain.
01:02So it's not until Saturday that we really start to see the rain moving into some of these areas that
01:07need it the most.
01:08I know not great timing with the weekend and any plans that you might have, but let's take a look
01:12at this on future radar,
01:14give you a better idea of exactly what to expect and how everything plays out.
01:18So we've been detailing the severe weather that we're looking at through the weekend, even into early next week.
01:24We start to see a few thunderstorms creeping in tomorrow afternoon.
01:28It's really Friday.
01:30We start to see some of this severe weather moving its way in, but you can see, yeah, we have
01:34some heavy downpours.
01:35We have some yellows, reds, oranges on the map here, but just not the amount of rain that we really
01:42need to help this situation significantly.
01:45Friday evening, we start to work our way into Mississippi, Alabama with those heavy downpours.
01:50It's not until Saturday that we finally get far enough east that we're relieving some of the issues here.
01:55But here's the thing.
01:56It can be a double-edged sword.
01:58If we have too much gusty wind, especially at the start before the rain comes in, it can make existing
02:03fires worse and can also help to spark new fires.
02:07And all of this because of the just severe drought going on here.
02:10I mean, our exceptional, the top category that you can have on the drought monitor, our exceptional area, it has
02:16just been growing in a lot of these areas that we are seeing the fires.
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