Today’s top weather news: Omega blocking pattern fuels thunderstorm, flooding threats across US

Millions of people in the northwest and the average alántico will run the risk of seeing sudden floods as we finish the weekend and start a new work week. Fox Weather’s meteorologist, Ari Sarsalari, breaks down the last prognosis on May 4, 2025.

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Implacable rain of the omega blocking pattern combines the threat of flooding of several days in the northeast, the middle Atlantic

Dozens of millions of people in the Northwest and Medium Atlantic face a risk of sudden flood as we close the weekend and begin a new work week due to the relentless rain rounds and some electric storms fed by a stubborn omega blocking pattern over the USS.

A “omega block” bears the name of the Greek letter Ω and interrupts the usual zonal flow of weather systems.

The Fox forecast center said the blocking pattern has caused a so -called low pressure cutting system to stop over the Ohio Valley. This system is feeding the humidity of the Atlantic Ocean, channeling precipitation to the region.

This radar animated loop shows the relentless rain rounds and thunderstorms that hit the middle Atlantic, the northeast and New England this week.

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The rules forecast of the Omega blocking pattern through us this week

A climate pattern of omega blocking in the United States has been established, with forecasters that warn that it will lead to a stagnant pattern of prolonged heat periods in some areas and constant rain and flooded in others.

As a result, two different regions of precipitation are expected to dominate the work week: one that extends from the southwest to the southern plains and the Gulf coast, with the other affection the northwest.

It is not known that this type of pattern produces extended Weather outbreaks, since the dynamics is not in place, but fighting located with hail And they are possible harmful winds.

Time forecast map for next week.

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4 hurir in the collapse of the Georgia roof while the severe storms hit the boxes indicate

Four people were injured as a partial duration of roof a severe storm in Georgia On Friday, one of the almost 200 damage reports that leaked after about 1,500 miles of thunderstorms swept a boxes from Texas to New York.

According to the Forsyth County Fire Department, the ceiling collapse occurred just before the 1 PM on Friday in Alphatta, since a severe storm brought the wind and hail.

The employees were inside the medical supplies company at the time of the storm, and the firefighters arrived to discover that everyone had come out safely. However, four employees suffered minor injuries and were tasks to a local hospital to receive treatment.

Part of the building ceiling collapsed in Forsythe County, Georgia severe storm duration on May 2, 2025.

(Forsythe County Fire Department / Fox climate)

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