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Get ready to sweat, because it’s going to feel like summer throughout the southern US today, while the mixture of cool meets warm weather may potentially lead to a severe weather threat across 13 states today.
If you live in the South, you might want to break out the best deodorant for sweating today, because it’s going to feel like summer from Texas to the Atlantic in the southeast.
Here are some of the forecast temperatures in major cities across the south and southeast:
Lubbock 78, Dallas 87, San Antonio 84, Brownsville 82, Houston 82, Oklahoma City 81, New Orleans 80, Memphis 72, Atlanta 74, Charlotte 77, Jacksonville 83, Tampa 85, and Miami 79.
At least 13 states in the southern regions of the US are facing the threat of potential severe weather today, including strong thunderstorms, heavy rain, and possible flash flooding, damaging winds, large hail, and tornadoes.
In the Southwest, thunderstorms are forecast for Southern Arizona, as well as portions of northern and central New Mexico.
In the central US and Plains, severe weather is possible in Eastern Kansas and southern Missouri, as well as Eastern Oklahoma.
In the South, severe weather is possible at the eastern tip of Texas, northern Louisiana, throughout Arkansas, western and southwestern Tennessee, central and northern Mississippi, most of Alabama and Georgia, and the Eastern portions of the Carolinas.
Following the devastating tornadoes that struck southern Kentucky and middle Tennessee last week, the areas are again under the threat of severe weather that could bring another round of destruction.
Last week, President Donald Trump visited the areas in middle Tennessee that were destroyed by tornadoes. One tornado north of Nashville stayed on the ground for over 50 miles.
Two waves of strong storms will move over Tennessee and southern Kentucky on Thursday and Friday, bringing the threat of strong and damaging winds, hail and tornadoes.
A vigorous system is from the West bringing a warm front, elevating temperatures into the 70s, making the atmosphere very unstable, which helps add additional spin that can make storms rotate, increasing the threat of isolated tornadoes.
One forecast model puts the threat north and east of Nashville, extending into southern Kentucky as far north as Louisville.
A second wave of severe storms moves into southern Kentucky and Tennessee on Friday in the evening hours, bringing the threat of strong straight-line winds which could reach 60 miles per hour, as well as small hail and heavy rain, while this second line of storms brings a decreased possibility of tornadoes.
