AccuWeather's hurricane recovery forecast in Florida and North Carolina

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As recovery efforts continue from Helene and Milton throughout the Southeast, here's a breakdown of how this week's weather will affect everyone involved.

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00:00Our top story takes us to Western North Carolina where some are living in tents after Helene's

00:05devastating impacts and now with that cold air that's going to bring a new hurdle to those both

00:10recovering and helping out with the recovery process. This is a pretty sad scene here with

00:15people in tents especially just knowing that their homes have literally in some cases washed away and

00:21they have no place to go. Temps are going to be into the low to mid-30s out there mid-30s for a

00:26lot of us in the higher elevations and look at the debris that's been kind of caught by some of the

00:31vegetation or the rocks along the riverbanks that have really been kind of expanded by that

00:36extremely destructive water. There's the coastal storm and this is going to be moving up into an

00:42area off the east coast. It is just far enough east that it's going to be almost no impact to

00:47land. The exception would be the eastern part of the North Carolina area here around Cape Hatteras

00:53up into Corolla south of Kill Devil Hill. Some light rain is falling. It is sending a little bit

00:58of an extra onshore breeze. The general circulation around this whole low is sending again a little bit

01:04more wind down into areas like coastal Florida. So we are dealing with some coastal flooding during

01:09each high tide cycle but most of us are back to dry weather. We've had some showers in the Florida

01:13Keys earlier today. One downpour northwest of Homestead not amounting to much here just an

01:18isolated downpour for some. Let's take you up to Taylor County Florida. This is close to the point

01:22of landfall. Taylor County is home to Keaton Beach. They're close to the point of landfall

01:27for Helene a couple of weeks ago and as the sun set some of the trees maybe a little more ravaged.

01:32It's hard to tell with the resolution of this camera if those trees are damaged or not but you

01:36can see a utility truck in view and again it's been three plus weeks here since we were really

01:41devastated in Taylor County up there near Keaton Beach and just inland with some of the the

01:47destructive wind from Helene. Farther south near the Tampa area still many without power there and

01:54you can see the destructive damage there. This is in western Tennessee there Hartford Tennessee.

01:59So whether it was from Milton with the power outages in Florida or up to the north the impacts

02:05of Helene there's so much work to be done that continues even under a blue sky. River flooding

02:10continues under a blue sky here in central Florida and satellite radar combination shows that cool

02:15chilly flow from the north. At least we're not adding to any of the rain in recent rain gauge

02:20excesses and here's some footage from the Blue Ridge Parkway. Just incredible to see so many trees

02:27down. A sad scene as this person on on Twitter and X had initially said when they were seeing

02:35some of this damage here. Typically leaf peeping is not accompanied by the destruction that you're

02:40seeing there. We're going to have a stiff onshore wind here into eastern Florida through the next

02:45several high tide cycles right in through the weekend. So just these splashes of coastal flooding

02:49every high tide. It's a full moon officially at seven something tomorrow morning. So tonight to

02:53tomorrow morning high tide is going to be a strong especially strong because of the full moon. We're

03:00down 15 degrees below average tonight in Tampa Damien. That's very chilly and where some of those

03:05people are intense mid 30s tonight for lows. Again if you're camping in November and you plan for it

03:11that's one thing but this is a very different situation. Well whenever Helene hit some of these

03:16areas were seeing highs in the mid upper 80s. So that's what they were prepared for. That's what

03:20happened when the storm hit. Now they're seeing this. There could be some deadly consequences here

03:24with some folks seeing overnight temperatures dipping to around freezing with no electricity

03:29for heaters.

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