Rainy conditions and thunderstorms push across the East Coast

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It was a wet Thursday across most of the East Coast on March 20, with some severe weather mixed in across the mid-Atlantic.

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00:00It's 40 degrees right now in Buffalo, not very spring-like here for the first day of spring.

00:04So this is what we're tracking. We had very mild air here across New England,

00:08but this cold front sweeping its way through is also bringing

00:11rainy conditions in addition to the dropping mercury. But we also have some showers and

00:16thunderstorms there across parts of the mid-Atlantic coast that we are tracking.

00:20So satellite radar here over the past three hours, you can see this rainfall continuing

00:24across central and now into eastern PA. We also have those thunderstorms from Virginia Beach to

00:29Baltimore to Washington, D.C. As of right now, the severe threat will be limited,

00:34but we can't rule out the possibility of a few isolated severe thunderstorms popping up

00:37from time to time. Future track radar is showing that by 9 o'clock, we'll still see most of that

00:42rainfall starting to work its way from upstate New York down to New York City and Jersey.

00:47But we also want to point out that 9 o'clock this evening, eastern time, is also going to be when

00:51we see the highest chance of rainfall across the entire east coast here as we head throughout this

00:56evening and tonight. Because after that, as we head into about midnight, most of those coastal

01:00showers and storms will work their way offshore, but we'll still see some lingering rainfall across

01:05New England as we head into the overnight hours. By daybreak tomorrow, 6 a.m., we'll see most of

01:10the rainfall working its way into New England. We'll even see some snowfall here for some of

01:14the higher elevations in the mountains. And then by about midday, we're talking noon,

01:19still tracking some showers here across parts of Maine with even some snowfall across the crown of

01:23Maine. But I also want to point out, look at all this sunshine here across the midwest and to the

01:28northeast as we head into your Friday afternoon. But I do want to point out, heading into late

01:32Friday afternoon, watch these areas across Michigan and the Great Lakes. That's where

01:37we're going to start to see some more showers developing here as we head into Friday afternoon

01:40into Friday evening. So as we head into this evening and tonight, we'll be watching that

01:45storm system bringing the heavy rainfall and the snow mixing in here across parts of New England,

01:50but much colder air being pulled here across the region as well with even some snowfall here

01:55across parts of western PA down through the Appalachians here as we head throughout this

01:59evening and tonight. In addition to that, heading into tomorrow, this coastal storm will continue

02:04here with some rain and snow there across the northeast with unfortunately much colder air here

02:10continuing to dominate the forecast across the region. So Anna, for the most part here across

02:15the northeast, even though the calendar officially says that it is springtime, Mother Nature's not

02:20hasn't got that memo just yet. Yeah, that is true. The snow. You mentioned the rain into areas

02:25like Maryland. We've seen some heavy rainfall in Baltimore and I have the storm reports pulled up

02:30here. We've seen some gusty winds as well. We've seen trees coming down and some of these wind

02:35reports 50 miles per hour, 54 miles per hour coming in just the last hour or so. So we are

02:41seeing the system bringing some gusty winds, not the case as far south. We see the rain moving

02:47through North Carolina. It's really out of South Carolina at this point. We're seeing some

02:52lightning in here. We're seeing some lightning show up really in the last couple of hours. Not

02:56a lot of lightning right now into North Carolina. Most of that is up into Virginia and we have had

03:01a severe thunderstorm warning pop up in the last couple of hours here. Just one into parts of

03:08Virginia here, but something will continue to track over the next couple of hours here.

03:13Wind gusts right now not as strong, even dropping in Raleigh. We're down to 25 mile per hour wind

03:18gusts in Raleigh, 31 in Atlanta, and I'm focusing on the wind gusts here because this is one of the

03:25biggest severe threats that we are expecting throughout this evening, mainly for the area

03:30in yellow here. That's where we have the some risk of severe weather. The other thing we could still

03:34see as the system moves its way through is small hail. So just things to be aware of for your

03:39evening if you're in that area of yellow. Overall though, we're just about done with this storm,

03:44especially by the time we get to 11 p.m., midnight, 1 a.m., which is where we're stopped now. This will

03:49be off the coast, still bringing impacts to the northeast that Damien was telling you about, but

03:53not really into the southeast. Friday, we're much clearer, but also colder because the cold

03:58front will have moved through, dropping temperatures behind it. The other thing we have to talk about

04:03is the fire danger. Through tomorrow, we have this increased fire risk, a high fire risk in

04:09the areas in red here, which does include Miami, Miami-Dade County, which is where you're seeing

04:14that fire on the right-hand side of your screen that is burning. And I want to go back to our

04:18storm reports because we do have some storm reports as we move down south towards Florida.

04:24They'll populate here in just a second. These wind reports further north and even

04:27that fire showing up there on the screen, 22,000 acres getting to 20% containment after tomorrow

04:34morning weather conditions should calm down enough that that will help the firefighters

04:38get further containment.

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