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A band of severe weather that extends from Texas to the Virginia’s will affect the South for the next three days bringing a high risk of flooding across the northern portions of Mississippi and Alabama; plus more of today’s weather news and forecast.
At least a dozen states in the South will experience heavy rainfall for the first half of this week with an elevated risk of flooding and thunderstorms that could be severe on Wednesday.
Over the three days, heavy rain is expected for eastern Texas; central and northern Louisiana; southern Arkansas; most of Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee; the northern half of Georgia; the western portions of the Carolinas and Virginia; southern and eastern Kentucky; and most of West Virginia.
The National Weather Service (NWS) has issued a flash flood watch which will remain in effect for the next two days in several Southern states.
The risk of flooding is high beginning today in the central and northern portions of Mississippi and Alabama and will continue through Wednesday.
For the next three days, a moderate flood risk continues as well in the northeast corner of Louisiana; the southeast corner of Arkansas; the northern halves of Mississippi and Alabama; the northern quarter of Georgia; southern middle and eastern Tennessee; and the southwestern edge of North Carolina.
The upper midwest and Great Lakes region are experiencing brutal cold this week, which will bring extreme wind chills in the subzero range.
By Thursday at 7:30 AM, the coldest spot will be in Sioux Falls with a wind chill factor of -45 degrees. It will only be one degree warmer in International Falls at -44 degrees.
Other extreme when chills are forecast for the rest of the upper Midwest and Great Lakes region including: Minot -29, Fargo -36, Sioux City -31, Des Moines -24, Rochester -37, Minneapolis -31, Madison -16, Milwaukee -7, Green Bay -16.
West: San Francisco 65/sunny, Los Angeles 73/partly cloudy, Reno 50/sunny, Salt Lake City 35/mostly sunny, Denver 31/snow, Las Vegas 66/partly cloudy.
Northwest & Northern Rockies: Seattle 47/partly cloudy, Portland 53/sunny, Boise 43/sunny, Billings 32/partly cloudy, Bismarck 25/partly cloudy, Rapid City 33/partly cloudy.
Southwest: Phoenix 71/thunderstorms, Albuquerque 52/rain, El Paso 64/rain, San Antonio 70/thunderstorms.
Central: Kansas City 44/mostly cloudy, Oklahoma City 43/rain, Lubbock 43/rain, Dallas 51/rain
South: Houston 76/thunderstorms, New Orleans 78/thunderstorms, Memphis 59/rain, Atlanta 56/rain, Charlotte 61/rain, Jacksonville 79/partly cloudy, Tampa 84/mostly sunny, Miami 78/partly cloudy.
Ohio Valley & Upper Midwest: Minneapolis 30/partly cloudy, Madison 32/partly cloudy, Chicago 33/mostly cloudy, Detroit 36/cloudy, St. Louis 39/mostly cloudy, Cincinnati 50/rain.
East: Norfolk 66/partly cloudy, Washington, D.C. 49/rain, Buffalo 38/rain, New York 47/rain, Boston 46/rain, Bangor 30/snow.
