Chief Meteorologist Patrick Rockey's First Warning Forecast
After days of sweltering weather, we're tracking a cold front on the way that will bring us serious relief.
But the intense heat isn't going to go away quietly. Scattered strong-to-severe storms are possible over the next few days, along with some heavy downpours that could cause flooding.
The Storm Prediction Center has the region under a heightened risk for severe storms, including damaging wind gusts for the next few days.
The surface cold front will become stationary across the area, sparking the chance for storms pretty much every afternoon over the next week.
And because the front is stationary, the storms that form along it won't be moving very quickly. That's the recipe for heavy downpours that could cause flooding. Our long-range forecast models are painting in two to four inches or more of rain over the next week.
The silver lining: much milder temperatures. We're expecting below-normal high temperatures for the next week or more.
