Thanksgiving storms threaten the Southeast

Across much of the Southeast, this Thanksgiving may be a messy one in terms of weather.

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00:00here in the southeast. Right now you don't really have too many problems

00:03hanging on to some moisture, maybe a straight shower. But for the most part,

00:08a lot of us dodging that action here throughout the rest of our Tuesday and

00:12really most of Wednesday to have the clouds. You'll see this surge, though,

00:16coming out of the south dew points going to be rising. That's going to

00:20feel that threat of severe weather when we have those dew points rising, that

00:24humidity, that moisture increasing into the atmosphere. And we also have energy

00:28shifting out of the West and even from the north. We're gonna start to see

00:31some of those storms bubble up and pop off here as we head into early Thursday.

00:36So while Wednesday is looking okay, Thursday morning, if you're traveling,

00:40you could run into some tough storms, and some of these storms could produce

00:44some heavy rain causing problems there along the roadways, especially along the

00:48spine of the Appalachians. Areas that are already still recovering and were

00:53hit hard just about a month or so ago and still going to see some heavier

00:57rain even for the holiday. It does clear out, though, rather quickly. This

01:01is already Thursday night into early Friday. Ah, lot of that action sitting

01:05offshore. But before we get there, this is going to be the zone that we're

01:08monitoring for a few tough storms. Jackson, New Orleans, Montgomery,

01:13Atlanta, Gus. So we're covering a large piece of real estate here, even down

01:17through the panhandle, flooding downpours. We're not going to rule out

01:20even if you isolated tornadoes and, of course, those winds gusting between 55

01:24to 65 MPH. Not going to rule out some gusty winds at times, at least with

01:30your actual local storm. Max is high, a 75 MPH Turkey Day forecast, though

01:35Tampa, Orlando, Florida is the place to be here for Thanksgiving. Beautiful

01:40weather on the way upper seventies, low eighties rain, though, in Nashville in

01:44Raleigh is actually going to be a little chilly there in Music City. So

01:47heads up. You may want to add an extra layer on for Thanksgiving. Similar

01:51story there in Charlotte. When it comes to the rain, even the storms in

01:56Atlanta and New Orleans, though Miami, this keeps I keep saying this. Miami is

02:01the place I want to be for Thanksgiving, Jeff and enjoy it because this cold

02:06blast of air is gonna be reaching the southeast as well, and you'll start to

02:11see those temperatures dropped by Friday. Atlanta, you're down to the

02:14fifties.