More than a month's worth of rain could soak cities in the southern United States through the weekend, helping to wash away short-term drought concerns.
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00:00 It's still hot in the South.
00:02 This pattern has kept us awfully
00:03 toasty across a large portion of
00:06 our southern US cities and today
00:08 it's Montgomery, Birmingham,
00:09 Huntsville, Atlanta and Charlottesville.
00:10 Just a few cities that could tie or
00:12 break records or at the very least
00:15 be in the ballpark with high
00:17 temperatures back up into the 70s
00:18 and 80s in your Accuweather
00:20 exclusive forecast.
00:21 But if you look at the wider
00:22 map here of the southern states,
00:25 there's a pretty distinct division.
00:26 Look at this line between
00:28 the orange and the green.
00:29 That's where a boundary.
00:30 A front is setting up and that front
00:33 is not just going to bring cooler weather,
00:35 but it's also going to bring
00:37 some much needed rain.
00:38 You can see the division of
00:39 temperatures as well.
00:40 New Orleans and Jackson in the 80s,
00:42 even Houston,
00:43 where we have a couple of showers
00:45 today in the 80s versus Dallas.
00:46 OK, see an even look at El Paso
00:48 back in the 50s and 60s today.
00:50 Here's a look at satellite and radar.
00:52 You can see the front starting to
00:54 drive that rain across the Lone Star State,
00:57 even a couple of thunderstorms
00:58 in southern Oklahoma.
00:59 But I'll tell you this much.
01:00 These thunderstorms don't
01:01 look to be too bulky.
01:03 We're not really looking at severe weather.
01:04 The air with this front and the air behind it.
01:07 It's just a little bit too cold,
01:09 so that's good news in terms
01:10 of that severe potential.
01:11 That said,
01:12 the heavy rain potential is also a concern.
01:14 It's a real double edged sort of a
01:16 forecast for this part of the country,
01:18 because we have significant drought
01:20 conditions all the way up to our
01:22 extreme and exceptional drought.
01:23 The highest levels of drought
01:24 in parts of Texas, Louisiana,
01:25 Mississippi and even back to the Tennessee Valley.
01:28 So the rain is going to be great to
01:29 help with the drought conditions.
01:31 It's also going to be great to help
01:33 with fire conditions across the
01:35 southern states, but rain falling
01:36 on dried out ground and on fire
01:38 scarred ground burn scarred ground.
01:40 Can lead to flash flooding pretty quickly,
01:43 especially if you live along the
01:44 Gulf Coast from Corpus Christi,
01:46 the Rio Grande Valley areas like
01:47 Brownsville all the way out to Dallas,
01:49 essentially to the east of I-35.
01:51 You're going to get some heavy
01:52 rain in some spots nearly a month's worth.
01:55 For example,
01:55 Dallas in the general month of November,
01:57 gets about 2 1/2 inches of rain.
01:59 I think we're going to be pretty
02:01 close to that with the brain
02:02 setting up across this boundary.
02:04 Please make sure again you're being careful,
02:06 especially heading out on the roads in
02:08 terms of flooding and flash flooding.
02:09 Now the front on Friday,
02:11 say that five times fast starts
02:12 to droop to the South.
02:13 That brings rain back toward
02:15 not just the Tennessee Valley,
02:16 but more so into the Gulf states from
02:18 Mississippi all the way back toward
02:20 Georgia as well and even into the
02:22 Carolinas we start to see some showers.
02:24 Into the weekend,
02:24 the rain persists and stays further to the
02:26 South, even bridging the gap into Florida.
02:29 And look, not just rainfall,
02:30 look at just the temperatures over the weekend.
02:33 We go from cities like Nashville,
02:34 where we were in the 80s on Wednesday
02:36 back to the 60s on Friday and Saturday,
02:39 even looking at the upper 50s in
02:41 Birmingham on Saturday as the rain
02:43 in the clouds stay persistent.
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