By Renee Duff, AccuWeather.com Meteorologist
July 16,2016; 8:22PM,EDT
"Potent storms will push across the Upper Midwest [late] this weekend before working their way into the eastern Great Lakes and Northeast Monday and then into the mid-Atlantic on Tuesday," according to AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Dan Pydynowski.
The same storm system responsible for triggering these thunderstorms will first ignite a round of severe weather across the northern Plains into Saturday night.
"With hot and humid conditions in place across the region, some of the storms [from the Great Lakes to the Northeast] could turn rather strong," Pydynowski explained.
Heavy downpours and locally damaging winds will be the primary threats, he said. A few of the thunderstorms will also produce hail, and an isolated tornado cannot be ruled out.
While storms will be most active during the late afternoon and evening, a few could remain quite feisty well into the overnight hours.
Stormy weather will start off across the Upper Midwest on Sunday.
Areas from Des Moines, Iowa, to Chicago and Green Bay, Wisconsin, to Detroit may face one or more rounds of storms on Sunday and/or Sunday night.
As storms hit the Midwest on Sunday, warmth will be the theme across the Northeast to end the weekend.
Residents from Washington, D.C., to Buffalo, New York, will not have to worry about their outdoor plans being cut short by wet weather on Sunday.
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However, spotty disruptive showers and thunderstorms will dampen New England and the southern mid-Atlantic coast.
Wet weather will shift out of the Midwest and take aim at the eastern Great Lakes and interior portions of the Northeast on Monday.
Cities such as Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio; Pittsburgh; Syracuse, New York; and Burlington, Vermont, could face a gusty thunderstorm or two to start the workweek.
Wet weather may hold off until Monday night and Tuesday along the northeastern I-95 corridor, Pydynowski said.
Incidents of flash and urban flooding are possible in the heaviest downpours during the Sunday to Tuesday time frame.
Areas that have been hit hard by heavy rain recently, such as Minnesota and West Virginia, only need 2 inches of rain or less in one hour to induce flash flooding.
Torrential downpours could cause delays in the air and on the road for a time.
The passage of the heavy thunderstorms will open the door for less humid air to pour into the Midwest and Northeast. However, heat and humidity will quickly return to the Upper Midwest by midweek and then the Northeast toward the new weekend.
William Smith ·
Works at South Park
Man,this
humidity's just not letting up. It's like every day there's
thunderstorms or chance for thunderstorms.True it's not raining every
day but here in the NYC area we had some downpours at around 5PM this
evening and it's just been wickedly humid these past 3 or 4 days and
really for the past month-and-a-half here.
Chris Vincent ·
I
live in Western Michigan and all I have to say about this is bring it.
We have not gotten much good/great storms so far this summer because of
the lake. Now the Lake temps are up there now to help these storms
survive the trip across the big lake and not weaken like last time. Last
time there was a Severe T-Storm Watch issued because the weather
stations in the area were predicting some good T-Storms but that's all I
seen was a few rumbles and some sprinkles and I was like OMG my two
dogs bark louder then those rumbles. So please let me see some great
Storms tomorrow. I did checked the future radar for tomorrow and it
shows a nice line coming through but don't know if that is still the
case. So hopefully it comes through and does not weaken like all
previous lines.
Hostel Richmond
Chris,
May your car be totaled by an uprooted tree, your home inundated with flood waters, your Smartphone die after lightning hits your cell service tower, and may your internet/electricity go down for a week or better leaving you to swealter in 90-degree + heat after a truck skidds on rain-slicked roads, taking out several power poles and the sub-station serving your neighborhood.
May your car be totaled by an uprooted tree, your home inundated with flood waters, your Smartphone die after lightning hits your cell service tower, and may your internet/electricity go down for a week or better leaving you to swealter in 90-degree + heat after a truck skidds on rain-slicked roads, taking out several power poles and the sub-station serving your neighborhood.
Paul Nunes ·
The New London area of SE CT has had only 2.16" of rain since June 1st
Michael Carenza Jr. ·
My area in CT could use a good rain but I don't see it happening. Just more heat.
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Ron Schwiebert
I will believe this rain when it happens in Northwest Ohio. A inch of rain every work day next week would be ideal.
Zack Hodgson ·
Give
GA some rain and storms next week. Everybody in N. GA is tired of the
sunny weather. No more sunny days hopefully for GA for a couple of
weeks. Nobody wants sunny weather 7 days a week.
Zack Hodgson ·
Joseph
Graziose I normally am a big fan of sunny weather, but my area (N. GA)
been getting really hot and I'm normally not keen on rain, but in times
like these some rain won't hurt anybody as long as rainfall amounts stay
safely below flood threshold so nobody is flooding or close to being in
a flood.
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