More than 250,000 customers remained without power Wednesday due to an intense line of thunderstorms that rolled across 500 miles of the south-central U.S. overnight.
said. Montgomery, Alabama, and Atlanta are some of the bigger cities where severe storms are possible later Wednesday.
Although the severe weather threat will decrease on Thursday, heavy, drenching rain will be the main weather story in portions of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. Much of the region is under a flood watch due to the prediction of heavy rain. While the South and East deal with wild weather, the Southwest continues to bake under a summer-like heat wave this week. Temperatures on Wednesday will be as much as 10 to 20 degrees above normal, the National Weather Service said, and that will allow some of the interior deserts of the Southwest to again exceed 100 degrees.
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