A cold front is going to be draped across the Upper Midwest stretching back into the Plains starting on Tuesday. Along the front and out ahead of it, the FOX Forecast Center will be tracking a wide coverage of thunderstorms and potentially flooding rains for most of this week.
A severe weather threat that brought extensive damage to the upper Midwest and Great Lakes on Monday shifts to the Northeast on Tuesday, where strong storms could cause damaging winds and flooding.
The FOX Forecast Center said strong to severe thunderstorms are expected to develop throughout Tuesday afternoon and evening from eastern Ohio through New Hampshire as temperatures rise into the mid-80s.
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The primary concern is damaging wind gusts of 60 mph or more. Severe downbursts might be possible with storms forming along the corridor.
“And we’ve got a few rounds of them as we go through the next few days,” FOX Weather Meteorologist Craig Herrera said. “It is hot. It is humid outside.”
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The Storm Prediction Center has highlighted Northeast communities such as New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, DC and Pittsburgh as having a severe thunderstorm risk of level 2 out of 5.
“And it has expanded closer to the coast, including the Jersey Shore all the way back through central Pennsylvania, West Virginia of Virginia as well as the Delmarva,” Herrera said. “The level 1 goes back a little farther, but it’s one of those afternoons where these storms will be producing some very strong winds, yet again.”
Storms will bring bursts of heavy rain for an isolated flash flooding threat in the Northeast. Flooding is of greater concern in the Ohio Valley where storms could drop 3-5 inches through Wednesday.
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On Wednesday, isolated strong to severe thunderstorms are possible from the Carolinas into New England, with a corridor of greater coverage from northeast Virginia into the Hudson Valley and adjacent southern Vermont and western Massachusetts.
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Once again, that includes the major Interstate 95 corridor cities of Washington, Philadelphia, and New York City. Damaging wind gusts remain the primary threat.