Prolonged stretch of rain, rough surf in Southeast
A slow-moving weather system will trigger days of rain in Florida and Georgia, as onshore winds stir rough surf. AccuWeather forecasters continue to monitor for any tropical trouble over nearby waters.
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00:00 Well, it's just a Florida deluge this week as we continue to see round after round of
00:05 thunderstorms.
00:06 We're going to see those daily thunderstorms right through the end of the week, mostly
00:10 during the afternoon and evening hours, along with the flooding rain, which we are concerned
00:15 about.
00:16 There can be spotty damaging wind gusts and also even an isolated tornado or two.
00:21 But really, the story is going to be the flooding, especially the cumulative effect of day after
00:26 day after day of thunderstorms here.
00:28 Finally, drier air arrives, but it won't be until Sunday night and into Monday here.
00:33 Here's the problem.
00:34 We have this stalled boundary.
00:35 Now, winds north of the front coming in from the north, winds south of the front coming
00:41 in from the southwest.
00:42 So you get this convergence of the winds along that boundary.
00:45 And if you have sufficient moisture and sufficient heating, you're going to get showers and
00:49 thunderstorms.
00:50 Well, we certainly have the sufficient moisture.
00:52 Take a look at the satellite picture.
00:54 Look at this avenue of moisture.
00:56 You can track it from the northwest Caribbean all the way across Florida here as we see
01:01 this moisture coming on northbound here.
01:03 And this is tropical moisture, which means showers and thunderstorms are going to have
01:07 a lot of water to work with here as we go through the rest of the afternoon.
01:10 Now, not everybody is going to get a thunderstorm in Florida, but a lot of places will over
01:15 the next couple of days here.
01:17 Watch these thunderstorms and their slow movers as well, which means we're going to see locally
01:21 heavy rain.
01:22 Watch out, Miami.
01:23 Boy, you're going to get hit hard this afternoon.
01:24 Also parts of the Keys, central and north Florida.
01:27 I think your thunderstorms are later this evening and you note again, they're slow moving,
01:31 which means there's going to be some locally heavy rain.
01:34 Thunderstorms diminish a little bit after midnight, but they won't go away altogether
01:38 because of all of that moisture coming in from the north.
01:40 And as we take you right into the weekend, you'll notice pockets of heavy rain across
01:44 the Florida peninsula as we head into the weekend.
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