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Thunderstorms Reach the Northeast

July 26, 2012; 8:09 AM

Thursday 10 AM

A front marking the boundary between excessive heat to the south and cooler air to the north is today's weather battle zone. We see an array of showers all the way from Michigan to parts of New England. As the air mass south of the front heats up, the front will be moving slowly southeastward, and this can lead to one or more lines of violent thunderstorms later this afternoon and this evening. The National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center has highlighted the main threat zone on this map:

The highest risk zone on this map runs from Ohio to Connecticut, and the biggest concern is for the development of widespread swaths of damaging straight-line winds. There is also the risk for tornado development, especially near the eastern end of the risk area shown. If a warning is issued for your location, please move to the safest place you can find. The storms are moving rather quickly, so you should not have stay in the sheltered location very long.

Here is my video from earlier this morning. It includes the forecast for the weekend.

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Elliot Abrams
Elliot Abrams from AccuWeather.com offers this Northeast Weather Blog for the U.S. with regular updates on NE weather from a leading forecaster and meteorologist.