Page 2 - Rainfall Risk News Today

Just driving in to the cnn headquarters this morning, you could see the thick haze of smoke in the street lamps. the sun hasnt even risen here and i know that it will already being a smoky day in atlanta. there is an air quality alert code aorange for the city of atlanta. you can see the quality of air not that kuwait. moderate to sensitive groups impacted by this. and only good news is that cold front is coming and this will help to clear out the air as we head into wednesday and thursday. kind...

Like to call water spouts moving on to shore. and then turning into tornadoes. well watch that closely for you throughout the morning and that line, of course, again, pushes further off the coast by thursday evening. and then finally winding down altogether by the time we roll into the weekend for all of us, including those who are dealing with the snow. theres that threat highlighted in yellow from fort myers on up into charleston where we have the isolated threat for tornadoes. more of a wind ...

Tonight for parts of california, suffering from extreme drought. they are facing possible flooding, mountain snow and strong winds. what can you tolls, gene? >> good to join you. were stalking about a bomb cyclone, basically an area of low pressure that intensifies rapidly in a 24-hour period. if pressure drops 24 millibars in 24 hours thats a bomb. its off the coast of california and pucking inland. something rare, the national weather service issued an excessive rainfall risk, indicated by the...

Across the region with heat indices or what it will feel like close to 100 degrees in some areas such as baton rouge already exceeding 100 degrees wednesday afternoon. and heat advisories from the national weather service including much of southern louisiana, portions of texas into oklahoma, climbing up to 110 degrees. again, incredible heat if it was the middle of july when it is peak season for excessive heat, but here in september were seeing them take place across portions of the south. what...

Rainfall in store for you around parts of the northeast here upwards of 70 million americans dealing with the flood alerts and the storm system really goes out with a bang. you notice excessive rainfall risk here as high as it gets, a 4 out of 4, that includes again some of the major metro cities, philly and into new york city for rainfall that could be 2 to 3 inches, pockets of maybe 5 to 6 inches possible into southern portions of pennsylvania. and even some severe weather to be had on the bac...

Seeing significant weakening. doesnt mean we wont get more damage but we ear no longer seeing the extreme damage like today. where do we go from here, the treads? tornadoes overnight are a possibility. a tornado watch until 6:00 a.m. in the morning from the western panhandle of florida, southern alabama, southern mississippi and a section here of northeastern louisiana so tornadoes are one threat and then the rainfall is a huge issue, so the rainfall risk. this map shows you where we have a mode...

Waterways into this region, the marshland, all of it, as conducive as it gets for what is known as the brown ocean effect. its a phenomenon here where the system makes landfall but is able to maintain intensity over land because of that worm moist environment and of course the waterways across this region and the bayous certainly help with these tropical systems maintain that intensity. but ive never seen one go from a strong category 4 to still being a category 4 by 6:00 p.m. eastern tonight, w...

Left behind. if it made landfall right now at 100 miles per hour it would be six miles shy of a major hurricane. it has been on land for upwards of ten hours. that is remarkable. you dont see that often. this landscape very conducive to allowing systems to maintain intensity because of the southern tier. just essentially a continuation of the gulf of mexico. very warm waters that are going to energize and continue fueling the storm system. it left some of the warmest water on our planet. water t...