It's Going to Rain! A strong cold front will move through late Tonight. Out ahead of it, the atmosphere has become fairly unstable...the Lifted Indexes are negative and there is a decent pool of cold air aloft. There is also a nice little Theta-E Ridge that extends from central VA into southern PA. All of this should add up to some showers and t-storms tonight. A few of these could be strong or severe...wind gusts up to 60 MPH are possible and there could be some large hail as well. The only thing going against the possibility of severe weather is the timing of the front...it will miss the heat of the afternoon. However, there should be storms developing in the Mountains then drifting East. I do not think there will be a big problem with flooding since the steering currents are faster than on Wednesday. So, even though there will be some heavy rain in these storms, they should be moving at a good pace. This whole situation should set up a nice weekend with temps in the 70s and sunshine. Look out for some tropical development off the East coast of Florida early next week.

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