Pittsburgh recorded one of its strongest winds in recent history on April 29 as severe storms pushed east. But the Northeast isn't done with storms for the week yet.
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00:00Take a look at the ongoing severe thunderstorm watches. I wanted to mention that there's an
00:04addition here of the area of central and eastern Kentucky now under a severe thunderstorm watch
00:08until 1 a.m. Also areas around Louisville still under a remaining severe thunderstorm watch
00:14until 8 p.m. central or 9 eastern and then we're still under a watch farther east as well. So
00:19Pittsburgh, we had a remarkable storm earlier and again really disruptive. We had a 71 mile
00:24per hour wind gust, the third strongest gust measured at the airport. In recent history
00:30here, 83 mile per hour gust 20 or 30 years ago. Five years ago we had a 75 mile per hour
00:36gust, but this is on a short list. Fierce, tenacious winds, lots of outages. Hundreds of thousands
00:41in Pennsylvania are without power and into tonight the severe storms continue to move east here. Now
00:46you'll notice where a lot of the storms are right now. We're into the yellow zone. Some risk of severe
00:50storms, but still some parts of upstate New York and we're dealing still with some issues
00:54here into Kentucky as these move farther east. We're going to enter a more stable environment
00:59that's going to erode some of these storms and they won't be as intense as they had been,
01:03but still we've been very warm. 20 degree difference in some spots here between the storms and those
01:08who have been cooled down by the storms and as the winds continue to be very active, even behind
01:13the storms, behind the front 24 mile per hour, refreshing cool breeze there into Detroit, Michigan.
01:18Now that all plows east and our front will be far offshore as we get deeper into the night,
01:23but the tail of this kind of gets hung up and watch what happens tomorrow. More storms build along that
01:27boundary there into Virginia. So there are areas in the mid-Atlantic states that'll still face the
01:32chance for some rain and we could use some of this in Virginia and Maryland on Wednesday. Thursday,
01:37though, this all comes back in with some more showers and thunderstorms and some of these could be
01:42severe on Thursday and again on Friday. So Wednesday, cooler for most, but still along the tail of that front
01:48here. We still have some showers and storms around parts of Virginia, southern West Virginia.
01:52Thursday, this buckles north again. More thunderstorms return to the area and we could use some rain in
01:57New Jersey. A wet start to May. Hard to believe May begins on Thursday, Damian. We're going to have
02:02some wet weather here, unfortunately, on a Saturday once again in the northeast.