Three straights days of severe storms lead to dozens of deaths across the eastern half of the US

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A massive storm system that finally moved out to sea from the Northeast on March 17 led to at least 57 tornadoes from March 14-16.

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00:00And we're closely looking at some of these storm reports.

00:03New confirmations, a third EF4 has been confirmed.

00:06This one by the National Weather Service in Baton Rouge

00:10and New Orleans.

00:12That was one of the Mississippi tornadoes

00:13that they have analyzed as an EF4.

00:17So we're up to three of them, sadly.

00:19And as we head into tomorrow, more mild weather

00:21there for the southeast, but tracking some big changes

00:24on Wednesday.

00:25Well, it was a very deadly and destructive weekend

00:27for much of the US.

00:28The graphic shows you three straight days

00:30of storm damage, beginning on Friday

00:31with tornadoes, wind-fueled fires in the central US

00:34before stretching into Sunday with severe storms

00:36in the northeast.

00:37Unfortunately, at least 42 people by last count

00:40have died following the powerful storm system that

00:42ripped through the central and southern United States.

00:45Those storms, which included violent tornadoes, wildfires,

00:47and dust storms, have left widespread devastation there.

00:51Widespread devastation.

00:52There have been over 900 reports of damage

00:54since Friday, including dozens of tornado reports.

00:57900 reports there overall.

00:59That's a lot of wind out there.

01:01Well, things are going to improve for us,

01:03but we're just easing into that now.

01:05And New York City, saying goodbye to the recent rain.

01:07That's right.

01:08Let's go and take a live look here at New York City.

01:10You can see a little bit of sunshine

01:12starting to peak through the clouds.

01:13Not quite as overcast as what we were tracking earlier, Jeff.

01:16But overall, we're going to see some more moderate conditions

01:20here across the northeast.

01:21We still have some rain for some areas,

01:22but overall, a better forecast looking forward.

01:25Absolutely.

01:25And that back edge of clouds kind of lurking,

01:28but it's making a run into the city here

01:29as the sun begins to set here.

01:32We have a little ways to go, but you can clearly

01:34see the back edge of these clouds.

01:36That's what we're looking at as we

01:38are looking west into North Jersey from that New York City

01:40perspective.

01:41And as we take a look at the radar here,

01:44we have some lingering rain into southeast New England.

01:46Again, the last place to see this

01:47would be Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, and Cape Cod,

01:50and then also up into Maine.

01:51This is the area that we'll see some lingering rain

01:54through the night in coastal downeast Maine

01:56with a little bit of light snow up

01:57into parts of northern Vermont, far northern New Hampshire,

01:59and into parts of the Adirondacks at times as well.

02:02Current temperatures across the northeast,

02:04we've really had a bit of a setback

02:06here as we populate the map with the numbers.

02:08You can see readings as low as 34 into Buffalo.

02:10We're going to really bounce back nicely soon, but not yet.

02:13And on the warmer side, we have Virginia Beach, 54 there.

02:17That's quite a bit cooler than we had been, though.

02:19So again, a lot of 30s, 40s, and some low 50s on the map.

02:23But we have a warm spell building in.

02:24We're going to look forward to this.

02:25Here's some footage from another one

02:27of our AccuWeather employees in Ferguson Township,

02:30just west of State College, PA.

02:32Look at the wind across that field.

02:34Just incredible.

02:35This was just straight-up straight-line wind.

02:36Somebody might assume it was a tornado.

02:38In this case, straight-line winds.

02:40Local fire department that covers the State College area

02:42responded to 46 fire calls over just a 24-hour window,

02:47and about half of them were just within two hours

02:49of the storm, lots of trees and wires down.

02:52Here you can see Tuesday, pleasant weather

02:54in the New England states, warming up nicely on Wednesday.

02:56How warm do we go?

02:58Well, we're looking at a big warm-up here,

03:0080 in Pittsburgh, 80 in Charleston,

03:02low 60s in New York, 52 into Boston.

03:05That's not bad.

03:06But 80 in Charleston, that really stands strong.

03:09And then we have a cool-down coming.

03:11Damien, this is ill-timed.

03:12Spring officially begins Thursday morning,

03:15just as a cold front tears into the interior

03:17with some rain showers, even some wet snowflakes

03:19on the backside of this for the beginning of spring.

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