AccuWeather's severe weather expert Guy Pearson was live on the AccuWeather Network on March 28 to discuss the upcoming potential for severe weather.
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00:00We're going to begin with the first ingredient here. I mean, these high temperatures on Sunday
00:06are more typical again of what we would see in late April, mid-May. It's not unheard of,
00:13but it's a very warm and also it'll be a steamy air mass.
00:19Yep, certainly. Good morning again, everybody. You know, the temperatures themselves,
00:23yes, will be running much above normal. Not a lot of record setting temperatures,
00:28but certainly well above normal and bringing that heat back into place. As well as we have
00:35that first piece of energy then sort of move through the area over the night Saturday,
00:41it's going to bring a little bit more of that moisture farther north and really allow at least
00:45a decent transport of moisture well to the north and then help bring in some additional
00:51more moisture to the southern part of this to really help fuel our, you know,
00:56our severe weather outbreak that we're looking for on Sunday.
00:58Let's take a look at the upper energy chart here and, you know, I've been talking about
01:02this all morning here. Let's get a fresh perspective when you look at this map. What do you see?
01:12Yeah, the main thing that we're seeing here with the piece of energy is it's nice and strong. It's
01:17ejecting out across the plains and into the Midwest and that piece of energy is really then
01:23focused and pointed right towards, you know, the moderate outlook area that we have. You know,
01:31the energy that we're seeing here, as we've talked about at times, is going to be probably
01:36more linear. So it's going to be for the most part more wind, hail, but at the same time there
01:43will be, you know, tornadoes that we do see during the day, Sunday and Sunday night.
01:49Yeah, I've been using a dozen or two tornadoes
01:55and there's some concern that these could be long track tornadoes, Guy.
02:04There is some concern with that, especially with as drawn out as the system is and the piece of
02:10energy that's coming. With the amount of energy that it has and the way it can push it, it could
02:15potentially be. I know last week, you know, we had a lot of long track tornadoes. I don't think we're
02:21looking at anything near that type of setup for this week, but some of those could be a little
02:26bit longer track, be on the ground a little bit longer, but at the same time, you know, anywhere
02:31in the moderate risk area here, you know, certainly isolated tornadoes, not just damaging hail but
02:37probably large hail too, flooding downpours, and then certainly that damaging wind aspect of 65 to
02:4375 miles an hour with that local storm max there of 85 miles an hour with those damaging winds.
02:49In about 20 seconds, Guy, let's get to Monday as that system moves east.
02:58Yeah, as the piece of energy shifts east, we get the trailing cold front. So as we have highlighted
03:03here, there are some risks basically extending all the way from New York all the way back through
03:09Louisiana itself. And so we're looking at a lot of, you know, thunderstorm activity in here. Some of it
03:14will be severe with hail, flooding downpours, and some localized damaging wind gusts. AccuWeather
03:20severe weather expert Guy Pearson joining us from our Severe Weather Center in Wichita, Kansas.
03:26Thanks for joining us here on AccuWeather Early.