Lower Mississippi Heavy Rain – National Weather Outlook For August 11, 2022

National Weather Forecast

On Thursday, we will be watching scattered showers and storms across a good portion of the lower 48, but we currently aren’t expecting too many severe storms. This will be partly due to two frontal boundaries stretching from the central to the eastern United States.

Some of the heaviest rain through the end of the week will be from the lower Mississippi Valley to the Mid-Atlantic states, where some areas could see at least 3” of rain. Some heavier rainfall amounts are also expected in the Southwest due to monsoonal storms.

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