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AccuWeather's Bernie Rayno breaks down the ring of fire, a weather pattern that brings repeated nighttime thunderstorms with damaging winds over 100 mph and flash flooding.
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00:00Clusters of severe thunderstorms that go over the same area night by night.
00:06What are we talking about?
00:08We're talking about the ring of fire, thunderstorms that form along the northern edges of intense heat.
00:15And while all hazards can occur in those thunderstorms, the two main ones are damaging winds.
00:21We could see damaging winds over 100 miles per hour at times, and also inches of rain that can't produce
00:28flash flooding.
00:29Well, guess what?
00:30We have a ring of fire going on this week.
00:33Big upper high will be taking shape across the mid-south and then into the mid-Atlantic.
00:38And along the periphery of the high, that's where you get the thunderstorms.
00:43Take a look at this.
00:44This is future rainfall in Thursday.
00:47Note from Dallas toward Detroit toward Columbus toward Louisville.
00:52What do you see?
00:52Nothing.
00:53Because that's where the high is going to be much of the time.
00:55But around the periphery, you see the green, and that's where you get the storms.
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