Moisture Feed News Today

Already having dumped a half a foot of rain in spots. the flood threat is still up. in north carolina. bit of a tropical moisture feed there. it spins up the coast tomorrow. by 7:00 a.m. its in d.c., then baltimore, then philly. by 7:00 p.m. its in new york city. really coming down. we do have a severe weather threat tomorrow. but really more so on wednesday from shreveport, to little rock, and an even larger system with potential tornadoes as we get closer to the weekend. david. >> rob will be ...

Flooding from hurricane joaquin is already wreaking havoc. rescuing homeowners and drivers stranded and the governor nikki haley warning it only is going to get worse. >> we are about to go through something we have never gone through before. we are going to see rainfall at historic levels. >> the east coast could see heavy rain through monday morning. meteorologist janice dean live with the very latest tracking for us. hey there. >> hi, julie. we are watching a power storm. category 4. at one p...

Hurricane joaquin strengthening overnight as dangerous flooding threatens 58 million people. the monster category 4 hurricane is slamming the bahamas. the east coast scrambling to clear drains, another system is set to dump records amounts of rain. states of emergency in south carolina, virginia and in new jersey. chad myers is here with more. hi, chad. >> hi, carol. two separate systems. one upper low over the southeast and one hurricane with just a moisture feed from the caribbean will get tog...

Models believe that. right now most of them do not. they believe the hurricane will just head out to the ocean and it will be gone. ive completely covered up my buttons. we will see rainfall from this system, significant rainfall, up to 15 inches of rain as the storms progress over the next two to three days. but that rain truly wont be from the eye of the hurricane itself. just a tropical moisture feed. i can walk out here in atlanta and it feels like im stand negotiate caribbean. theres so muc...

Workweek. nonetheless, it will bring another round of rain to places like san francisco and los angeles. simultaneously we will see the storm system gather steam and bring in mountain snow, which is great news for anyone heading to the slopes in colorado. by the way, this is a nasa image that has given us a great indicator of what is called the pineapple express. this is basically the moisture feed that provided the storm system, all of its rainfall across the western half of the u.s. >> thank y...

Thats moisture in the air. this moisture feed coming up from new mexico to colorado. a few residence why this has been so historic, when you see the "h"s and "l"s on the map, this san area of low pressure. the jet stream you see way to the north here. its allowing the temperatures will be warm but also allowing this low to be cut off. kind of like youre pushing someone, you can push someone in front of you because theres nothing to push this. thats the problem. so its acting on its own and its i...

Louisiana up towards the mississippi river and the tennessee river valley, greta, the good news is its going to be your garden variety thunderstorms as we get into wednesday and clearing pattern as we move into moore, oklahoma, which is certainly great news. it will be cool tonight, temperatures will warm up. a slight chance of storms later this week. but nothing severe on the horizon. although, greta, make mention that may is typically the busiest month for tornadoes. so theyre not out of the w...

Seen all season. and thats why we saw these violent thunderstorms. now, the dissipation of the storms, well look at the potential of the moisture feed as well as if thevorticity is in place. everything that we look at in terms of where and when well see the damaging potentially dangerous storms, it was all -- the ingredients were all together. but in terms of what made this last and what made it dissipate is still, as far as meteorologists go, still a bit of a mystery. one that we will continue ...

Different storm in many ways. total snow accumulation i think will be about half of what the last storm was. so that means top end accumulations of only 20 inches but its going to affect probably twice if not more populationwise. the number of people affected by this is going to be a large amount for sure. a couple areas of low pressure similar to the last storm and has a tropical moisture feed. that, too. but its kind of got its act together earlier in the form of whats going on out west in the...

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