December 23,2014; 8:59PM,EST
Rain and thunderstorms, some capable of producing severe weather with the potential for a few tornadoes, will affect the South into Christmas Eve.
Despite this week being the first week of winter, it may seem like spring in the South for a day or two with a surge of warm and humid air, accompanied by thunderstorms.
Rain and storms will be spawned by a Christmas Eve storm as it gains strength and begins to lift to the north.
Approximately 20 million people in the South will be in the severe weather risk zone as it shifts eastward into Christmas Eve.
According to AccuWeather.com Meteorologist Ben Noll, "While the most likely impact will be strong and damaging winds, a few tornadoes cannot be ruled out."
Holiday travelers driving along portions of Interstate 10 from New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, through Mobile, Alabama, and Tallahassee, Florida, can experience poor visibility and excess water on the roads from gusty winds and heavy rain on Tuesday.
The risk of locally severe thunderstorms on Tuesday will extend as far inland as the I-20 corridor from Jackson, Mississippi, to Birmingham, Alabama.
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During late Tuesday night into Wednesday morning, drenching rain and thunderstorms will swing through the I-85 swath from Atlanta and Charlotte, North Carolina, and farther east in Augusta, Georgia and Columbia, South Carolina. Flight and highway travel delays may increase substantially during this time.
During the day Wednesday, the risk torrential downpours and locally severe thunderstorms will shift to the I-95 swath from central and northeastern Florida to the coastal part of the Carolinas and southeastern Virginia. Cities from Daytona Beach, Florida, to Charleston, South Carolina, Wilmington, North Carolina, and Virginia Beach, Virginia, could be hit by a gusty, drenching thunderstorm.
A second pocket of thunderstorms with locally damaging wind gusts may develop on Wednesday from north-central Kentucky to western New York state and southwestern Ontario.
As warm air continues to surge northward with the storm, some people may also surprised by thunderstorms on Wednesday night in the coastal mid-Atlantic and southern New England and northern New England on Christmas Day morning.
Know when the storms will hit by using AccuWeather MinuteCast®. It will tell you the start and stop time of rain over the next two hours.
Story content contributed by AccuWeather.com Senior Meteorologist Alex Sosnowski.
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Steven Sosna
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Big travel delays across the E U.S. w/ low clouds & ceilings. Severe storms delaying south. I'll be on @msnbc this PM w/ worst travel spots
Matt Adamson
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Christmas Week Storm: Winds, Rain, Snow Threaten Travel Chaos in areas of the country. nbcnews.com/news/weather/c… @NBCNews #HappyHolidays
Scot Pilie'
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Spotty showers across Southeast Louisiana & South MS today. More organized rain & thunderstorms to
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