Hazardous Weather Outlook Issued For Strong Overnight Storms

A thunderstorm with potentially damaging effects is expected to hit Pennsylvania on Monday night and Tuesday morning. The National Weather Service has issued a hazardous weather outlook for the entire state, saying severe thunderstorms are possible Tuesday evening and into the overnight hours. Damaging winds are expected to be the primary hazard.

Here are the alerts for Pennsylvania:

The storms will be an extension of damaging thunderstorms and torrential downpours that will threaten the northeastern United States into Monday evening, according to AccuWeather.

A press of cooler air will clash with building warmth and humidity over the mid-Atlantic and interior Northeast to start the month of May, according to an AccuWeather release. Residual showers and thunderstorms from the morning hours will intensify as they move east.

Here is the forecast:

• Monday: Areas of fog before noon. Otherwise, partly sunny, with a high near 81. Breezy, with a southwest wind 11 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 32 mph.
• Monday night: Showers and thunderstorms likely between 10pm and 3am, then a chance of showers. Some of the storms could produce gusty winds. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 64. Breezy, with a south wind 16 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70 percent. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
• Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 73. Breezy, with a west wind 11 to 21 mph.
• Tuesday night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 48. West wind 8 to 13 mph.

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