Locally severe thunderstorms will rumble across the Northeast ahead of the weekend, bringing strong winds, lightning and hail.
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00:00 Some spotty severe weather across the Great Lakes today and tonight.
00:05 That's what the yellow is for behind me on the screen.
00:07 That's the "some" risk for cities like Lansing, Detroit, Columbus, back up toward Buffalo,
00:13 and even across the border into Canada.
00:16 Toronto, you're not exempt from some severe weather.
00:18 In terms of threats, pretty much everything's on the table, too.
00:22 Heavy rain, damaging gusty winds, hail, tornadoes, isolated at that,
00:26 and it's the Great Lakes region, so a water spout or two are not out of the question here.
00:32 This area pushes to the east, and by the time we get to Friday and early Friday evening,
00:37 we're looking at some spotty severe weather back into New England.
00:40 The reason I say "back into New England" is because, well, about 10 days ago,
00:44 we had some serious severe weather across the region.
00:47 Even two tornadoes touching down in southeast Massachusetts,
00:51 one in Mattapoisette and another on the Cape in Barnstable.
00:54 Now, tornadoes are part of the equation for Friday and Friday evening,
00:58 but we're mainly looking at damaging gusty winds and some hailstones as well.
01:02 That includes cities like Boston, Portland, all the way across Long Island,
01:06 up to Hartford and even Albany, New York.
01:08 Now let's take a look at these storms as we move through tonight and tomorrow.
01:11 You'll see the line pressing across the Great Lakes, through Ohio, through western Pennsylvania,
01:17 and it's kind of a good news/bad news situation.
01:19 The bad news is, we're talking about severe weather. That's not fun.
01:22 The good news is, if you live in central Pennsylvania and across a large part of the I-90 corridor in New York,
01:28 let's say cities like Utica or Syracuse, for example,
01:31 you're severe weather-free considering the timing of these thunderstorms.
01:36 They're really pushing through that region overnight.
01:40 We lose that daytime heat, which means these storms don't have as much oomph as they would
01:44 in the middle of the afternoon. That heat equals fuel.
01:48 That said, the storms don't just disappear.
01:51 This is as they get to New England later on Friday morning.
01:54 Make sure you're checking the AccuWeather app before you head to work on Friday.
01:57 Let's say if you live in Albany, for example, Boston, New York, and Portland,
02:01 we could have a bit of a bumpy start to the day with some thunder, lightning, heavy rain, and gusty winds too.
02:06 But it's the afternoon where I really look at this for that severe weather potential.
02:12 We're looking at more in the way of that daytime heating.
02:14 There's still some energy here, some wind, and these little pockets, these little cells,
02:19 they're small but mighty, and they could put down some severe weather as we move through 1, 2, 3 o'clock,
02:24 even as we get again to the early evening.
02:27 Now, the parent storm here, call it an upper low.
02:30 Think of it like a big storm in the upper atmosphere.
02:32 Well, this thing lifts up and out of the region as we get to late Friday night and early Saturday morning.
02:38 Still a few storms lingering in the Boundary Mountains of Maine and into northern Vermont and New Hampshire,
02:43 but high pressure is moving back in.
02:46 That means more sunshine back through the Ohio Valley, through the Great Lakes, through the Northeast,
02:52 and it's going to be a stellar weekend.
02:54 We always joke that the best weather is on a Monday and you can't enjoy it.
02:57 Well, that's not the case this weekend.
02:59 Make outdoor plans, enjoy the sun, and of course we'll have more here on AccuWeather.