The Daily Weather Update from FOX Weather: Atlanta faces flood risk as severe storms threaten South
Start your day with the latest weather news – Severe weather is expected to continue across the southern U.S. on Friday, with an additional threat of flooding for some major cities.
Weather in America: March 8, 2024
FOX Weather has you covered with the breaking forecasts and weather news headlines for your Weather in America on Friday, March 8, 2024. Get the latest from FOX Weather Meteorologist Britta Merwin.
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South faces risk of severe weather, flooding
Powerful storms continue to rumble across the southern U.S. on Friday, with an additional threat of flooding in some of the region’s major cities. Severe weather is likely in a large swath that stretches from Texas and Oklahoma east into southern Alabama and the Florida Panhandle.
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The flood threat covers much of the same region, but there are serious concerns about the potential for flash flooding in an area that covers near Birmingham and Montgomery in Alabama and just south of Atlanta in Georgia.
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Weekend St. Patrick’s Day plans could be dampened in Northeast
St. Patrick’s Day is more than a week away, but that’s not stopping some places from getting a jump on the festivities. Several of those events are scheduled to happen in the Northeast this weekend as the region is expecting very wet and even wintry weather. Rain is expected in places such as Philadelphia, New York City and Boston. Snow will likely fall across upstate New York, northern New England and Maine.
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Golf joins ‘deadly dozen’ list for lightning deaths
According to the National Lightning Safety Council, golf has overtaken soccer on the list of the 12 deadliest activities when it comes to lightning. Fishing tops the list, dubbed the "deadly dozen" by the council.
Lightning strikes near a golf course in 2008.
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