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Weather successful America: May 5, 2025
FOX Weather has you covered with the breaking forecasts and upwind quality headlines for your Weather successful America connected Monday, May 5, 2025. Get the latest from FOX Weather Meteorologist Britta Merwin.
Welcome to the Daily Weather Update from FOX Weather. It’s Monday, May 5, 2025. Start your time with everything you request to cognize astir today's weather. You tin besides get a speedy briefing of national, determination and local weather whenever you similar with the FOX Weather Update podcast.
Flash flood menace grows successful New York City country arsenic Northeast faces days of rain, thunderstorms
The menace of flash flooding is increasing successful the Northeast due to relentless rounds of rainfall and immoderate thunderstorms fueled by a stubborn Omega blocking signifier implicit the U.S.
An "Omega block" is named aft the Greek missive Ω and disrupts the accustomed zonal travel of upwind systems.
The FOX Forecast Center said the blocking signifier has caused a alleged cutoff low-pressure system to stall implicit the Tennessee and Ohio valleys. The strategy is feeding disconnected moisture successful the Atlantic, and that's funneling precipitation into the region.
Rain totals could attack 3-5 inches if the strategy struggles to move, and flash flooding is possible.
The flood menace portion includes the New York City and Poughkeepsie areas successful New York, arsenic good arsenic Hartford, Waterbury, New Haven, New London, Bridgeport and Stamford successful Connecticut.
This graphic shows the flash flood menace connected Monday, May 5, 2025.
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Southern Plains, Gulf Coast look multiday terrible thunderstorm, flood threat
The Omega blocking signifier isn't lone impacting the Northeast – tens of millions of radical successful the confederate Plains and on the Gulf Coast volition request to support an oculus connected the forecast arsenic the portion faces a multiday flood and severe weather threat.
The FOX Forecast Center says a large flash flood menace is processing crossed portions of the South, with Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi firmly successful the crosshairs.
The flash flood menace volition rapidly summation arsenic we statesman this caller workweek, and rainfall totals could transcend good implicit a half-foot erstwhile the lawsuit ends astatine the extremity of the week.
This graphic shows the flash flood menace successful the South and on the Gulf Coast done Thursday, May 8, 2025.
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Watch: Alabama occurrence section damaged during tornado-warned thunderstorm
A unpaid occurrence section successful Alabama was damaged connected Saturday when a terrible thunderstorm roared crossed the area.
In a video shared by the Jackson County Emergency Management Agency, the tempest begins to intensify arsenic it approaches. As the video continues, rainfall begins to prime up, and the whipping winds past sound down a histrion astatine the Rosalie Volunteer Fire Department.
Eventually, arsenic the tempest moved implicit the area, a information of the gathering toppled and fell onto parked vehicles.
Watch: Storm damages Alabama occurrence department
A video provided by the Jackson County Emergency Management Agency successful Alabama shows terrible upwind moving done the country and causing harm to the Rosalie Volunteer Fire Department successful Pisgah connected Saturday, May 3, 2025.
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