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Flash flood threat continues across the Southeast
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9/5/2024
As a tropical rainstorm moves east, parts of the Gulf Coast and Southeast can expect days of flooding rain.
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The rain's really been coming down in many of these areas.
00:02
Yeah, dangerous flooding right there.
00:03
You can see it doesn't take much to wipe cars off the road.
00:06
And once again, we always stress, turn around, don't drown.
00:08
You definitely don't want to be driving in the conditions like this.
00:11
It could stall your vehicle out.
00:12
You can have vehicle damage.
00:14
And unfortunately, you don't want to have end up having to have first responders
00:17
come out to pick you up.
00:19
All right, so let's go and take you live right now to New Orleans.
00:21
And as right now, we have wet roads.
00:24
Some people have umbrellas.
00:25
So a little bit of an improvement over yesterday, Jeff.
00:27
But we will start to see some heavier rainfall moving in
00:30
as we head into this evening.
00:31
Yeah, and right now, it's kind of a light to moderate rain in the Big Easy.
00:34
But the rain's heavier elsewhere.
00:36
There's actually a flash flood warning that was extended by two extra hours
00:40
up in the northeast corner of Louisiana.
00:43
So east and west Carroll Parish, northern parts of Richland Parish
00:46
and all of Morehouse Parish still under a flash flood warning
00:49
with light to moderate rain continuing on the heels of the very heavy rain earlier.
00:53
And the rain's also going to be moving east.
00:56
Right now, we're dealing with a band of heavy rain and thunderstorms
00:58
up into the area near Gainesville, a little bit of lightning near Jacksonville.
01:02
Orlando, we got an nasty storm that's popped up on the northwest side of town
01:05
up near Apopka, turning the lightning off here.
01:07
You can see what's going on there.
01:09
And thankfully, we're dry in Tampa and St. Pete.
01:12
And I'll show you why it's a good thing in just a moment.
01:15
There is a thunderstorm or shower popping off to the north of the city, though.
01:19
So when we look at current temperatures,
01:20
some of you have really been cooled down nicely by the rain.
01:22
Jackson, Mississippi is a hot spot this week.
01:25
You're down to 78 now.
01:27
Raleigh has the nicest weather in the region at 78 and dry.
01:31
But we are still at 90 up in Little Rock, 91 into Nashville.
01:34
And we're kind of recovering from what's been some drenching,
01:38
drenching rain in Tampa and St. Petersburg.
01:41
Pinellas County, Hillsborough County here, just way too much rain.
01:45
Four to eight inches of rain has fallen across most of this major metropolitan area
01:50
over the past couple of days.
01:51
And so far this month, it's only the fifth of the month here,
01:56
we've already had 8.83 inches of rain.
01:58
In a typical whole month of September, we have six inches of rain.
02:02
And sometimes that's with the help of tropical systems.
02:04
So it has been way too wet there, thankfully a little drier now.
02:08
A lot of rain will continue to fall in areas near I-10 tonight
02:11
with drenching rainfall and some thunderstorms.
02:14
And as this system slides east, a tropical rainstorm
02:17
is going to continue to hammer places like Louisiana,
02:19
southern and eastern Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, northwest Florida,
02:23
especially through the next 24 to 36 hours.
02:26
Fast forward to Saturday, rain a little more restricted to near I-10,
02:30
the Florida Panhandle, and parts of eastern Carolinas, the eastern Carolinas.
02:35
So again, Friday, this second shade of blue is the steady,
02:38
second shade is green, I should say, is the steadiest rain.
02:41
But there will be some thunderstorms that still add to that surplus
02:44
in the Tampa metro on Friday.
02:46
And Saturday, the heaviest of the rain,
02:48
north Florida, southern Alabama, south Georgia.
02:51
Some of you in southern Louisiana will see eight plus inches of rain,
02:55
the fourth shade of green, eight to 12 inches of rain
02:57
between what happened last night, plus today, plus the next two days to come.
03:01
Way too much rain, at least it gets a little more restricted into the day on Saturday.
03:06
So, Damian, in the northeast, we're going to go in the opposite direction
03:09
from dry, beautiful weather to wetter.
03:11
That's right, that same weather system that's going to clear out the southern states,
03:14
it's going to bring that rainfall, heavy rainfall for some,
03:17
and cooler air here as we head into the weekend.
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