00:00Now, right now, we are not seeing the conditions that we need to help firefighters, but that's in the forecast.
00:06Taking a look at radar, though, I mean, it's at the point.
00:08It's been so many hours since we had severe thunderstorm warnings into the Carolinas that they're just at the very
00:13beginning of my loop here.
00:14You can see some isolated thunderstorms into Florida, and some of these starting to gain strength at some points,
00:21but nothing that's met severe criteria in the last couple of hours here.
00:25Now, as far as the storm reports go, there's two different categories here.
00:28Category 1, Mississippi on west, that's all from the overnight, all of the wind, the hail, the flash flooding.
00:34But then in Florida and the Carolinas, those are newer storm reports from the last several hours here.
00:39And one of those wind reports in South Carolina is semi-flipped because of the wind and also golf ball
00:45-sized hail.
00:46So, yes, it's at some risk of severe weather that we have for today, but definitely still seeing some impacts
00:53from that.
00:54Now, as we go through the next several hours, wind gusts up to 75 miles per hour will be a
00:58concern, as well as hail, and can't rule out some flooding downpours.
01:02Now, the other thing in Florida, can't completely rule out an isolated tornado or two.
01:05It's not something we're highlighting as a most likely risk, but just be prepared knowing that these storms can turn
01:11severe.
01:11So, taking a look at future radar here, we're really just focused on the Florida Peninsula into the overnight.
01:17But even tomorrow morning, heavy downpours is where we could start to see some flash flooding.
01:21But you know what?
01:21It's where we need the rain the most also.
01:23This is where the exceptional drought is, that highest level of drought category.
01:29Continuing through your Tuesday, we see this rain spread further south as we get to 5 p.m.
01:34So, keep that in mind for your evening commute, could run into some problems.
01:37As we go through our Wednesday, we're going to have a cold front move through.
01:41However, for the southeast, it doesn't bring a lot of rain.
01:44It's just enough to be annoying, just enough that you might want the umbrella, the rain jacket on standby,
01:50in case you get caught in one of these downpours.
01:53Until we get to the late evening and into the overnight, when we have heavy downpours moving through Virginia and
01:58the Carolinas.
01:59So, as sometimes happens, you guys are the exception to the rule with the little caveat that I just gave.
02:06So, as we move into Thursday, it's south Florida with the spotty thunderstorms that we turn our focus as the
02:11rest of the region kind of dries out.
02:13But you know what?
02:13We need any of this rain, all of this rain, and this is why.
02:16We're under severe, exceptional drought in some areas.
02:20It's because April was just really not a rainy month.
02:23Nobody saw more than an inch, or nobody even saw an inch, on this list of cities.
02:27But that has changed from over the weekend.
02:30We got some downpours.
02:31Tahasi getting more than two inches of rain now for the month.
02:34But you know what?
02:35A lot of these cities need more than a foot of rain to actually eliminate the level of drought that
02:41is set in.
02:41We're back.
02:42We're back.
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