AccuWeather.com - Weather Blogs

Weather News

Headlines Blogs

Services For You

Premium
AD-FREE and 30-day free trial

Professional
Models, expert analysis

Wireless
For mobile weather on the go

RadarPlus
Interactive predictive radar

Download Center
For FREE gadgets

Twitter
For daily forecast tweets

Facebook
Become a fan today!

My Locations

Monthly Features

NEW AccuWeather.com International Site!

Get your global weather in 33 languages at our new international site, featuring European radar, hourly forecasts, and more!

FREE Desktop Application!

Get all the weather information you need, right from your desktop! Our new desktop application features 15-day forecasts and more hour-by-hour weather!

AccuWeather.com Professional

AccuWeather.com Professional includes exclusive blogs and videos from Joe Bastardi, our expert long-range forecaster who can pinpoint winter storms weeks in advance. Get in the know!

AccuWeather.com
Hurricane Center

The AccuWeather.com Hurricane Center has more facts, more maps, historical tracks and of course the exclusive AccuWeather.com Eyepath forecast for each storm.

Southern US Weather

RSS

Coastal Storms, Interior Comfort

6/30/2008 1:49 PM

While strong, drenching storms will continue into the night along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, a push of dry air will invade interior locations during the next couple of days.

The Severe Weather Center reports a cold front tonight will continue to drift slowly to the south and east from Louisiana to northern Florida, northward to the Carolinas and the Northeast.

Storms along the front could produce hail, damaging winds, and drenching downpours. One or two of the strongest storms could produce a tornado.

Deadly storms Sunday ripped through the Southeast. Associated Press reports a five-year-old was killed and 12 others were injured when strong winds blew over a row of tents at an air show in Huntsville, Ala.

A young boy was injured by a lightning strike near Madison, Fla., along Route 53 around noon, EDT, Monday. The boy was taken to the hospital, but he is expected to survive.

The storms have had a beneficial side, however. Portions of the region received over an inch of rain from early Sunday through the midday hours Monday:

Roanoke Rapids, N.C.: 2.18"

Ozark, Ala.: 1.76"

Chapel Hill, N.C.: 1.72"

Raleigh, N.C.: 1.30"

Valdosta, Ga.: 1.04"

Portions of western North Carolina, upstate South Carolina and northeastern Georgia remain in an extreme drought, despite recent rain.

While the front will make eastward progress through the coastal Carolinas later tonight, the system will stall over Florida and the immediate Gulf coast. As a result, the chance of pop-up, drenching thunderstorms will continue through the balance of the week.

A front approaching from the Northwest could cause thunderstorms to pulse inland over much of the region during the Independence Day Weekend. Meanwhile, persistent thunderstorms over the weekend in the western Gulf of Mexico will have to be watched for possible tropical development.

Most areas north of the Gulf Coast will experience relatively comfortable conditions into Wednesday morning due to the push of slightly cooler, less humid air. Humidity levels will slowly build later in the week and over the weekend.

City	Avg.	Tues.	Wed.	Thurs.	Fri.
Raleigh	89	86	90	92	90
Charlotte	90	86	90	90	90
Nashville	88	85	88	88	82
Atlanta	89	86	87	89	86
New Orleans	91	89	91	90	88
Charleston	90	88	90	92	93
Orlando	92	88	87	91	93