Daily Weather Update from FOX Weather: East Coast faces flooding, rounds of storms for Mother's Day weekend
Top weather news for Friday, May 9, 2025: The weekend is filled with heavy rain and flash flooding up and down Eastern Seaboard. Storms clear out for Mother's Day in the Northeast, as precipitation remains through next Tuesday for Southeast.
Weather in America: May 9, 2025
FOX Weather has you covered with the breaking forecasts and weather news headlines for your Weather in America on Friday, May 9, 2025. Get the latest from FOX Weather Meteorologist Britta Merwin.
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Southeast smacked with hail, wind and flooding ahead of rain-soaked weekend
Severe storms produced widespread hail, wind damage and flash flooding on Thursday across the Tennessee Valley and the Appalachia, with dozens of reports of hailstones around the size of quarters.
A broad range of thunderstorms is expected on Friday from Louisiana's coast up to North Carolina's Outer Banks. These storms will last through the weekend and into next week for the Southeast and mid-Atlantic, as this system interacts with tropical moisture from the southern Atlantic Ocean.
There is a potential for flash flooding in the region through Tuesday. Localized areas of Florida, Georgia and South Carolina could see as much as 7 inches of rain.
This graphic shows the flash flood threat for the Southeast beginning Friday, May 9, 2025.
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Northeast faces washout before ‘picture-perfect’ Mother's Day
The Northeast will be soaked with heavy rain Friday as a low-pressure system interacts with the same front that's bringing rounds of rain to the Southeast. A low-level flash flood risk is in place on Friday for Philadelphia, New York City and Boston.
The system begins to move out of the region Saturday, giving way to what the FOX Forecast Center calls "a picture-perfect" Mother's Day.
This graphic shows the weekend forecast beginning Friday, May 9, 2025.
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Watch: Dozens of rattlesnakes slither, curl in Colorado mega-den
Recent video shows rattlesnakes slithering and curling over one another in an undisclosed location in northern Colorado. The video begins with one rattlesnake coiled up into itself, while another snake slithers over it.
The footage was shot as part of a livestream run by Project RattleCam, a collaboration between scientists from Cal Poly, Central Coast Snake Services and Dickinson College to study rattlesnakes.
Rattlesnakes slither, curl in Colorado snake den
Dozens of snakes can be seen slithering and curl ing in a rookery, or snake den, in Colorado. They are just a few of hundreds of snakes in the rookery.
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