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Another round of severe weather meteorologist allison chinchar is in the cnn weather center. so where could we see these storms pop up? unfortunately in some of the same states that have been hit in the last 24 to 36 hours, we're still looking at the southeast. being that target point for today, you've got active storms in mississippi areas of alabama as well as georgia right now, a lot of lightning with a lot of these thunderstorms but also watches in mornings this yellow shaded area here. this is a severe thunderstorm watch in effect until nine a.m. eastern time today. but all these little o...

More power outages for that area. the wind is likely to stick around for the rest of the day today, same thing with the low pressure system before it finally moves off. but, the next major storm system is actually in the western u.s., just now starting to slide in across areas of washington, oregon, and northern california. but, that moisture will begin to spread into southern california and especially into the intermountain west as we go into the day sunday and even monday. that is when you have the winter weather advisories and the storm warnings for other places, not just right there along ...

The way over with completely dry feet. part of that problem is just that expanding drought that we've seen across much of the central portion of the country. 133 million people live in these drought stricken areas across the u.s. 99% of oklahoma is even under severe drought. now we're starting to see more of that begin to spread off to the east and that includes that mississippi river basin. one thing to note, we've got a little bit of rain in the forecast, but not really around that target point that we've been looking at. when you look at the long-term forecast, boris and am mara, we're expe...

Is for that heavy rain. one thing we do know, though, fred, is that somewhere we are going to have that target point over florida. beginning tuesday and wednesday, you are going to start to see that flash flood threat begin to increase across florida and hopefully we can get that cone of uncertainty narrowed down considerably in the next 48 hours. >> alison, thank you so much. we look forward to the next update. priscilla, to you. how might this storm impact the president's plans? >> reporter: biden was expected to go to florida this week to deliver remarks on social security and health care, ...

Slower and farther west, making landfall near the pensacola area late friday. then we take a look at the european model, you're talking midday wednesday, but near the ft. myers area. so, quite a difference here in terms of the spread. and also in terms of rainfall amounts. overall, we're still talking similar widespread rainfall totals of 4 to 6 inches. it's where that bull's-eye of the rainfall goes, that's going to ultimately depend on where this storm makes landfall. again, the european model focusing it more across central florida to see that target point of 8, 10, as much as a foot of rai...