100 million at risk for severe weather this weekend

AccuWeather's severe weather expert Guy Pearson was live on the AccuWeather Network on March 28 to discuss the upcoming potential for severe weather.

Transcript

00:00We're going to begin with the first ingredient here. I mean, these high temperatures on Sunday

00:06are more typical again of what we would see in late April, mid-May. It's not unheard of,

00:13but it's a very warm and also it'll be a steamy air mass.

00:19Yep, certainly. Good morning again, everybody. You know, the temperatures themselves,

00:23yes, will be running much above normal. Not a lot of record setting temperatures,

00:28but certainly well above normal and bringing that heat back into place. As well as we have

00:35that first piece of energy then sort of move through the area over the night Saturday,

00:41it's going to bring a little bit more of that moisture farther north and really allow at least

00:45a decent transport of moisture well to the north and then help bring in some additional

00:51more moisture to the southern part of this to really help fuel our, you know,

00:56our severe weather outbreak that we're looking for on Sunday.

00:58Let's take a look at the upper energy chart here and, you know, I've been talking about

01:02this all morning here. Let's get a fresh perspective when you look at this map. What do you see?

01:12Yeah, the main thing that we're seeing here with the piece of energy is it's nice and strong. It's

01:17ejecting out across the plains and into the Midwest and that piece of energy is really then

01:23focused and pointed right towards, you know, the moderate outlook area that we have. You know,

01:31the energy that we're seeing here, as we've talked about at times, is going to be probably

01:36more linear. So it's going to be for the most part more wind, hail, but at the same time there

01:43will be, you know, tornadoes that we do see during the day, Sunday and Sunday night.

01:49Yeah, I've been using a dozen or two tornadoes

01:55and there's some concern that these could be long track tornadoes, Guy.

02:04There is some concern with that, especially with as drawn out as the system is and the piece of

02:10energy that's coming. With the amount of energy that it has and the way it can push it, it could

02:15potentially be. I know last week, you know, we had a lot of long track tornadoes. I don't think we're

02:21looking at anything near that type of setup for this week, but some of those could be a little

02:26bit longer track, be on the ground a little bit longer, but at the same time, you know, anywhere

02:31in the moderate risk area here, you know, certainly isolated tornadoes, not just damaging hail but

02:37probably large hail too, flooding downpours, and then certainly that damaging wind aspect of 65 to

02:4375 miles an hour with that local storm max there of 85 miles an hour with those damaging winds.

02:49In about 20 seconds, Guy, let's get to Monday as that system moves east.

02:58Yeah, as the piece of energy shifts east, we get the trailing cold front. So as we have highlighted

03:03here, there are some risks basically extending all the way from New York all the way back through

03:09Louisiana itself. And so we're looking at a lot of, you know, thunderstorm activity in here. Some of it

03:14will be severe with hail, flooding downpours, and some localized damaging wind gusts. AccuWeather

03:20severe weather expert Guy Pearson joining us from our Severe Weather Center in Wichita, Kansas.

03:26Thanks for joining us here on AccuWeather Early.