Thunderstorms and Heat

This morning we're watching a couple of clusters of thunderstorms. The first one is rolling across the Midwest. It looks like Michigan, northern Indiana and northern Ohio will take the brunt of the thunderstorms. An series of upper air disturbances will keep thunderstorms going across southern Wisconsin, Iowa and northern Illinois today. Local rainfall in all of these areas will total 1-3 inches with locally higher amounts.


The next are with severe thunderstorms today will be across Nebraska and northern Kansas. These thunderstorms will also affect Iowa and northern Missouri.

Heat is a problem across the central part of the country. There's plenty of sunshine... and plenty of humidity. There will be some break in the heat over the weekend.

There is a tropical low drifting westward across Florida (B) which will produce heavy rain in clusters of thunderstorms. The low will track toward Louisiana. There is a low pressure area out in the Atlantic (A) that could become TS Danielle on Wednesday.

The low / potential tropical storm is going to struggle against the fairly strong Bermuda high. Right now it doesn't look like it will be an issue for the U.S. to deal with.