Severe storms drench July 4th celebrations for millions l GMA

severe weather as dangerous heat bakes the South and the West Ginger is tracking the very latest for us ginger good morning hey good morning to you Whit they were brief and they were intense when the storms blew through this one here or close to it 1 and 0.28 inches of rain in 18 minutes my mother-in-law said it's no fun to beat a barbecue with a meteorologist because I kept saying got to go in now we get to go out now we got to go in and then it cleared for the fireworks but these storms they're not done we got a whole cold front a new area today [Music] severe storms drenching Fourth of July celebrations for millions of Americans parades soaked downpours even delaying the holidays Gorge Fest at the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating competition it's left much of the Northeast primed to flood parts of Connecticut got up to two inches of rain per hour neighborhoods flooded people wading through just across the street this driver in Massachusetts pushing his car through ankle deep water and streets becoming streams in parts of Rhode Island but further south and west it's the heat that is unrelenting Pat shade for me they like the sun all three of them will be laying out here and I'll be in the shade record-breaking temperatures soaring to the triple digits from Florida to Oregon temperatures in Arizona reaching the 110s we've got this powerful cold front that we're watching now and the severe weather is going to come all along it so from Chicago that later this afternoon early evening down through southern Illinois into St Louis back to Little Rock Oklahoma City and even into the high plains in eastern Colorado that cold front sags and you're going to see damaging wind as the main threat through all of that you could see an isolated tornado in there and there will be some heavy rains but then we've got to talk about how it's hazy hot and humid down here we have heat advisories for the whole peninsula of Florida except for the Panhandle there SouthEast Georgia too a little bit starting to build back in Texas because we're going to see the numbers today well over 100 for the heat indices start to keep creeping up and so that high pressure system that Dome is going to build back East Lindsay 102 by next Monday which is there in Dallas a massive heat down Ginger all right thank you well hey there GMA fans Robin Roberts here thanks for checking out our YouTube channel lots of great stuff here so go on click the Subscribe button right over right over here to get more of Awesome videos and content from GMA every day anytime we thank you for watching and we'll see you in the morning on GMA

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Length: 2min 34sec (154 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 05 2023