Looking ahead next week; Wet in Southeast; Hot in Midwest

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AccuWeather's Joe Lundberg and Bernie Rayno look ahead to next week when wet weather will continue in the Southeast and hot weather will hit the Midwest. The Atlantic has remained quiet.

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00:00We got the heat, we got the comfort, we got the heavy rain. Joe, one thing that I think you and

00:05I are still surprised about, we really thought there'd be a couple of named storms in the tropics

00:11this week, but there's been none. No, there has been none. That was the one thing we just kind

00:15of missed out on. It doesn't look promising for the tropics over the next few days, Bernie.

00:20If you look at the big picture for next week, the three things that you want to know about,

00:24well, it's going to be wet again from parts of southeast Texas to the southeastern U.S.

00:29Hot and dry from the plains into the Midwest. This is going to be the start of an extended

00:33period of dry weather for you in the Midwest. Watching the Gulf of Mexico and the southwest

00:37Atlantic for potential development, but again, it looks like those chances are not very high

00:41for next week. What I think is fascinating about long-range forecasting, as you look across the

00:46world, you start to realize that the weather in one part of the globe can have implications

00:52in another part of the globe. It's called teleconnections. Yes, and those teleconnections,

00:56last week, Bernie, we were looking at Shenzhen in the western Pacific, making a recurve away

01:00from Japan, and that was because of a trough that was picking it up. That teleconnected to a trough,

01:05the one you're seeing coming into the east this weekend. Now we see Yagi going westward through

01:11South China Sea into northern Vietnam. Why is that? There's an upper-level ridge to the north

01:16of it, and that means the jet stream is way to the north, and that teleconnects to a system

01:20downstream in the east that means the jet stream lifts to the north, and you're going to see warm

01:25air spreading eastward, and voila, you look at the pattern for next week, and again, we're going

01:29to be talking about temperatures on the high side of average from the plain states all the way to

01:33the eastern seaboard. It starts cool, but it quickly warms up much faster than you've seen

01:38this week. The soft underbelly of that ridge, though, is going to be active with some shower

01:42and thunderstorm activity from southeast Texas to the southwest Atlantic, where we're monitoring for

01:47potential development, Bernie, but it just doesn't look favorable. Here's the pattern for next week.

01:51Southeast Texas over to the southeast U.S., multiple rounds of showers and thunderstorms,

01:56a risk of flash flooding, probably some travel delays. Will anything develop out of this?

02:00I don't think you think so, Bernie. No, I don't. It just looks unlikely. And listen, it is great,

02:06great news. It's just something that you don't normally see. This time of the year, it's been inactive.

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