Southeast faces dry stretch after weekend storms, tornadoes

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Cleanup efforts are underway following a deadly severe weather outbreak in the Southeast, and dry conditions are expected in the wake of the damaging storms.

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00:00 Just a devastating weekend in the

00:02 mid South as deadly tornadoes

00:04 tore through Middle Tennessee and

00:05 even into Southern Kentucky.

00:07 Many tornado reports here.

00:08 I want to hone in on this stripe.

00:11 You can see from Montgomery County,

00:13 Tennessee back into Southern Kentucky.

00:15 That was an EF3 tornado now confirmed

00:18 that tore through the city of Clarksville

00:20 and sadly became deadly.

00:22 Another deadly tornado back into Davidson

00:24 County, the same county where Nashville is.

00:26 This tornado, however,

00:27 becoming deadly once it reached

00:29 Madison, Tennessee.

00:30 This one rated an EF2.

00:31 A recap of the events here.

00:33 Sadly,

00:34 six people have been declared dead

00:36 because of this tornado outbreak

00:38 between Clarksville and Madison.

00:39 More than 80, though,

00:40 were taken to the hospital with

00:42 injuries after the events and dozens,

00:44 if not hundreds of residential

00:46 homes have been leveled power.

00:48 Also a concern.

00:49 We've woke up to power outages this morning.

00:52 Thousands of them across the volunteer

00:53 state as multiple power substations

00:55 were significantly damaged and some

00:57 of them really there's no thought as

00:59 to when they can be turned back on

01:01 and power can be restored.

01:03 Now for those of you who are sitting

01:05 here listening saying this is awful,

01:07 how can I help?

01:08 Well, let me tell you,

01:09 the Red Cross has been boots on the

01:11 ground since the second this happened.

01:13 You can go to redcross.org/acuweather

01:15 to donate or use.

01:16 There's a bunch of ways here.

01:18 You can call 1-800-RED-CROSS or

01:19 even text the word Red Cross.

01:21 No spaces to 90999.

01:22 Now in terms of the Southeast forecast,

01:24 I will say this much.

01:25 You know, clean up weather for recovery here.

01:28 It's actually really calm,

01:29 really tranquil across the

01:30 Mid South and Southeast Louisville,

01:32 Nashville, Huntsville, Knoxville.

01:33 You get the picture here.

01:35 Temperatures between 40 and 50 degrees

01:36 and plenty of sunshine across the region.

01:39 Now as we look across the entire region,

01:41 will open this up to the entire Southeast.

01:43 You can see it's the same trend.

01:46 Montgomery 56 degrees today,

01:47 52 in Atlanta as we head down

01:49 the peninsula of Florida.

01:50 We get into the 60s and eventually

01:52 the 70s in South Florida.

01:53 We keep the sunshine rolling through

01:55 the region even Wednesday.

01:57 Not quite as cool midweek as well.

01:59 Temperatures get a little bit of a

02:01 chance to rebound before high pressure

02:02 sends in some more cool air from the north.

02:05 Overall, though it is a really

02:06 sunny and really dry stretch for

02:08 the Southeast and Mid South.

02:09 Here's a look at the next three

02:11 days of temperatures and you can

02:13 see that Atlanta for example,

02:14 61 degrees by Wednesday.

02:15 That's not so bad.

02:16 Jacksonville back to the low to mid 60s,

02:19 Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in Jackson,

02:20 Mississippi,

02:20 even in the low to mid 60s as well.

02:23 Will give you seven days in

02:24 the low to mid 60s up again.

02:26 You can see that we're in the

02:28 upper 40s today,

02:29 but we jumped to the upper

02:30 50s by Tuesday afternoon.

02:31 Temperatures even to the low 60s by the

02:33 time we get to the weekend in Music City.

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