The Daily Weather Update from FOX Weather: Severe weather outbreaks threatens South
Start your day with the latest weather news – A significant severe weather outbreak, including a possible derecho, is likely for over 20 million in the South Wednesday as a stalled front combines with plenty of moisture and an extremely unstable atmosphere to provide dangerous conditions.
Severe weather outbreak, including possible derecho, threatens the Southeast on Wednesday
A rare June severe weather outbreak is expected Wednesday across the Southeast, where destructive winds, damaging hail and strong tornadoes are all possible.
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Severe weather outbreak, derecho possible in Southeast
A significant severe weather outbreak is likely for over 20 million in the South Wednesday as a stalled front combines with plenty of moisture and an extremely unstable atmosphere to provide dangerous conditions. Widespread thunderstorms will be capable of bringing baseball-sized hail or larger, swaths of intense wind gusts over 70-80 mph and strong tornadoes. Storms may form a derecho across parts of the Southeast as well.
NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center has issued a Level 4 out of 5 on their severe weather risk for parts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia, including Jackson and Montgomery.
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Things to know
- Tornado Safety: How to identify the safest places inside your home
- How to stay safe in your mobile home during a tornado
- Nighttime tornadoes far more likely to turn deadly than those during the day
- What is a derecho?
Triple-digit heat baking parts of Texas
Texas is no stranger to heat waves, but this early in the year is a bit unusual. Much of the state is under a Heat Advisory on Wednesday, including cities such as San Antonio, Austin and Houston. Daytime highs will be at or near 100 degrees, but the heat index will climb to above 110 degrees for some places.
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Things to know
- What is the heat index?
- How to stay safe during a heat wave
- Heat kills more people in US than any other type of extreme weather
Hurricane HQ: 2 disturbances being watched in Pacific
The Atlantic Ocean remains quiet, but things are getting a bit more active in the Pacific Ocean. The National Hurricane Center is monitoring two tropical disturbances in the Eastern Pacific. Both of these have low chances of development.
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Dramatic change: California’s Lake Oroville fills up
After experiencing some of the driest weather on record over the past couple of years, Lake Oroville in Northern California is full. The state’s second-largest reservoir hit 100% capacity last week and has held on to that for the past week. A photographer showed just how impressive the transformation has been between September 2021 and this year.
This aerial combination photo created on April 17, 2023, shows Lake Oroville in Oroville, California, on September 05, 2021 (top), and on April 16, 2023 (below).
(JOSH EDELSON/AFP / Getty Images)
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