Nearly 80 million people on alert as severe storms expected to hit the East Coast
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Key Points:
- Nearly 80 million people along the East Coast from northern Georgia to Maine are on alert for severe storms on Sunday, with threats including damaging winds, large hail, lightning, and isolated tornadoes.
- Severe storms will move into the East Coast Sunday afternoon and night, affecting cities such as New York City, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and Raleigh, coming from Ohio and Tennessee.
- The severe weather follows destructive storms in the central Plains on Saturday, where softball-sized hail and wind gusts over 75 mph caused widespread damage and power outages, including delays at a Kansas City Royals baseball game.
- A slow-moving cold front will bring soaking rain to the South from Texas to Georgia through Tuesday, with some areas expecting 1 to 2 inches of rainfall.
- Summer heat and humidity persist in the Southeast and West Coast, with heat advisories in parts of the Carolinas, southern Georgia, Florida Panhandle, California's San Joaquin Valley, and the Pacific Northwest, where a potentially life-threatening heat wave is forecast through Tuesday.
