As the Southeast faces record-challenging high temperatures, showers and thunderstorms will continue on the Gulf Coast this weekend.

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Persistent tropical downpours and thunderstorms are affecting the Gulf Coast and southern United States, with showers extending as far north as the I-20 corridor in Mississippi. While severe storms have not been reported, intense lightning and heavy rainfall are common, particularly in southern and central Mississippi.

At the same time, a significant heat wave is impacting the region, with real-feel temperatures climbing as high as 115 degrees in some areas. Several cities, including Charlotte, New Bern, and Wilmington, are either tying or approaching record high temperatures. The combination of heat and humidity is expected to continue for several days, affecting states from Texas through the Carolinas and into Florida.

Tropical downpours continue across the Gulf Coast

You can see that as we head into the weekend here across the Southern Plains, the Gulf Coast will be watching out for stormy and sweltery conditions. The stormy conditions will continue as we head into this evening across the Gulf Coast with showers and storms lifting as far north as the I-20 corridor between Shreveport, Monroe, over towards Jackson. They're in central parts of Mississippi. But that's not the only thing we're going to be tracking. Looking forward, we have another area of low pressure that's going to be working its way across the Gulf here as we head throughout later parts of next week. So very similar setup to what we had this week with both the storms and the heat will persist. But overall, on radar, you can see widespread showers and storms continuing as of right now. No severe storms, but we will see some rowdy thunderstorms with some pretty good lightning there across southern and central portions of Mississippi here as we head into this evening. But overall, as we head into tomorrow, this is your Saturday forecast. We'll be tracking storms to the south, sweltering dangerous heat to the north and off to the east, the east coast down into Florida. We'll see some actual real field temperatures climbing as hot as 115 degrees. But air temperatures will be widespread in the 90s. And yes, Charlotte right there, 100 degrees, which would tie a record high temperature for tomorrow's calendar date. So that's the kind of heat we're going to be tracking here across parts of the southeast. And then Sunday for some areas, it gets even hotter with sweltering heat across parts of the southeast. In the meantime, it's going to take you live right now to one of those areas I mentioned previously, Jackson, Mississippi. All right, Damien, and there we are at the Jackson, Mississippi area, 84 there at that part of town, 88 at the airport. Mississippi DOT cams showing smooth sailing. It's hot, though. We have had some recent thunderstorms actually temporarily cool some of you down. We're also dealing with storminess not far from New Orleans, 86, Corpus Christi at 86, but other areas like Dallas, 98. Very warm there. Very warm. Again, yesterday we hit 98. That had been our hottest day of the year until today, sitting at 98 at the moment. But a big heat wave continues. In fact, it's going to be expanding and escalating for the Carolinas down into north Florida and Georgia through Wednesday. It's going to be with us for five or six days. Sweltering, sweltering heat from the Mississippi Valley in the Central Plains into the southeast, the mid-Atlantic states on Saturday and some record challenging heat here. This may tie the record for hottest July 20, thinking the 26th here for Saturday's date. It would be our fourth July 26 at 100 degrees in Charlotte, matching the record for 1914-1940 tied 20 years ago. We'll probably break a record high for the date into New Bern, North Carolina at 99, tying a record into Wilmington for the fifth time on July 26th. Look at the deep, deep maroon here. That's an acu with a real field temperature forecast for Norfolk down into areas near Statesboro, Georgia, and in between at 110 to 115. Same story for Memphis down into Longview, Texas. Very hot. The deep maroon sweltering heat on the map into the southeast on Sunday with more record challenging highs likely to tie a record in Augusta, Georgia and in Charleston, South Carolina at the century mark. And again, 110 to 115 from near Raleigh down into near the area of Jacksonville, Florida, just off to the west.

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