continue over the next 48 hours. cnn meteorologist chad myers has the forecasts. another hot and bumpy one across the united states for your wednesday. storms are a little bit left in the northeast, a little bit more in the southeast and then the severe weather into parts of the southern plains right through parts of kansas, oklahoma even into parts of military and that s where the biggest threat of hail and lightning and the gusty winds that could cause some damage. that s where most of the weather will be. so i ll take you hour by hour and move your head all the way to where we will be especially by the afternoon things are going to get hot and the storms are going to begin to bubble and it will be some of that could also be rotating to severe weather. the forecast rainfall, kind of spreads itself out and we don t really see these isolated, very very concentrated areas of rainfall that could cause significant flooding, let it spread out for the most part.
nashville, louisville on up through portions of ohio. we could see large hail, damaging winds associated with the storms today, so as they marched to the east, it is going to continue to produce the potential for severe weather. and then they ll start to die down. the severe threat will die down as we get into the evening hours of tonight, so your forecast rainfall is going to be anywhere from, say, 2 to 4. choose could see isolated amounts up to six so very heavy rain through the deep south in the mississippi river valley as we go through the next day or so, abby all right, jennifer gray. thank you for that report. and turning now to another important story today for the first time in the u. s history, the nation is now finding out what happens after a former president is indicted less than 24. hours ago, former president trump pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records. new york prosecutors say that trump paid off an adult film actress and a playboy model to keep
that may not be a day long event. but now we have another issue and that is our tropical storm. this is formed off the coast of the carolinas and it is impacting those areas with some strong winds, heavy rainfall. right now the winds are reporting at 40 miles an hour. we re watching for it to move off toward the north east and eventually moving toward the east and north east. so even as this pulls away, there is still the risk of those rip current as long the coastal regions, even a very strong swimmer could be effected by this as well. but thunderstorms throughout the afternoon, across the lower mississippi river valley and to the northeast and into new england. here is the forecast rainfall that we re looking at in some sections of the carolinas. 204 inches of rainfall is expected across the region. now the higher impact areas is along the i-95 corridor. washington, d.c. philadelphia, new york and boston, this is where we re looking at perhaps some of the strongest storms. also porti
forces, punishable by up to 15 years in prison. steve finishes this edition of outside source. thanks for watching. good evening. some eastern areas have held onto the march sunshine today, but it s been cloudier under a weather front further west, and behind that, we ve had some thunderstorms. so, it s more unsettled, and it will remain that way, particularly in the west through the rest of the week. it ll often be windy, from the south, it should be reasonably mild. you can see for yourself here the forecast rainfall for the next three or four days. and the majority is falling in the north and west, very little further east. and the reason for that is the weather fronts are marching in off the atlantic. here s today s band of cloud, more waiting in the wings, and as they come in, that s where they re depositing their rain. but also they re being blocked by the high pressure further east, so that tends to make them fizzle out, or at least the rain on those
crisis. we will look at the issue here on outside source in a few good evening. some eastern areas have held onto the march sunshine today, but it s been cloudier under a weather front further west, and behind that, we ve had some thunderstorms. so, it s more unsettled, and it will remain that way, particularly in the west through the rest of the week. it ll often be windy, but with the wind coming up from the south, it should be reasonably mild. you can see for yourself here the forecast rainfall for the next three or four days. and the majority is falling in the north and west, very little further east. and the reason for that is the weather fronts are marching in off the atlantic. here s today s band of cloud, more waiting in the wings, and as they come in, that s where they re depositing their rain. but also, they re being blocked by the high pressure further east, so that tends to make them fizzle out, or at least the rain on those weather fronts fizzle out. and so, the thundersto