- More than 60 million people live where severe thunderstorms are possible on Monday.
- Major cities in the threat zone for Monday’s storms include Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Nashville and Atlanta.
- The tornadoes that rocked Iowa on Saturday, killing seven people, were the deadliest to hit the state since May 2008.
A stormy day is forecast for much of the eastern United States on Monday as severe weather moves east after hitting the central United States with deadly tornadoes over the weekend.
More than 60 million people live where severe thunderstorms are possible on Monday, the Storm Prediction Center said, with damaging winds the main danger.
Major cities in the threat zone for Monday’s storms include Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, DC, Atlanta and Nashville, Tennessee, the forecast center said.
“A dramatic clash of cold air to the north and warm air to the south will contribute to the development of severe thunderstorms as a strong jet stream overhead gives vigor to the volatile weather pattern,” said said AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Alex Sosnowski.
According to Weather.com, heavy rains in these areas could also trigger localized flash flooding.
“A cold front will sweep across the eastern United States on Monday and produce gusty showers and thunderstorms as it stretches from the lower Mississippi Valley to southern New England,” said Hunter Greene, AccuWeather storm warning meteorologist.
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Late Sunday, this series of storms produced a few reports of tornadoes in Arkansas, Weather.com said. A possible tornado injured five people near Zion, Arkansas, according to a National Weather Service report.
The tornadoes that swept through Iowa on Saturday, killing seven people, were the deadliest in the state since May 2008, when a tornado destroyed nearly 300 homes and killed nine people in the town of Parkersburg, N. northern Iowa.
The tornadoes were followed by winter storms overnight Sunday through Monday that dropped about 5 inches of snow in central Iowa and 6.5 inches in Mount Vernon in eastern Iowa. Snow was also falling Monday in parts of Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan.
In addition to Monday’s severe weather threat, an unusually warm air mass will be responsible for hitting or breaking temperature records on the East Coast, from New York to central Florida, the National Weather said. Service.
High temperatures are expected to be between 20 and 30 degrees above average for much of the Mid-Atlantic region.
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