those rains come immediately that way. that s immediately one of those quick downbursts of rain and as quick as it starts, it will go away. we ve seen that for days now. officials here say as the storm creeps up the coast of florida, they will continue to see more of this. the mandatory evacuations for martin kouvnts county, at least been lifted. they will, of course, reopen the bridges to allow people to go into hutchinson island. in martin county. each county will make decisions for the causeways and the bridges in their territory. let me go to the point where brian todd is. the wind is picking up here. what are the conditions where you are, brian? reporter: the winds are picking up here, too, victor. the rain has given us a bit of a go where my baby lives by the strolle s break but like you, we expect good boy. the rain very quickly. we re going to show you quickly
these thunderstorms moved through the area yesterday and the severe weather included really strong damaging wind. let s bring in cnn meteorologist allison chinchar. the reports say that the winds are caused by downbursts. tell us about these. in term of the damage, is actually is very similar to a tornado but also at the same time, very distinguishable when you re looking at the specific damage. in your thunderstorm, you have a lot of that cold air that comes in. cold air descends. but as its comes down it comes down incredibly rapidly and when it gets to the ground it has to go somewhere so it spread out very quickly along the surface. sometime those wind can reach 100 or 150 miles per hour. again, that is very similar to what a tornado would end up doing. the thing with yesterday was we had not just one downburst but multiple around the kansas city area and reports of hail. also over 140 reports of damaging wind. this was why we have a lot of
dangerously low. nbc meteorologist dylan dreyer is here with that forecast. good morning, dylan. thanks, betty. we are going to see some heavier rain move into the east coast through the day today. we re already starting off the day with some showers. we ll get a break, see some sunshine, then more thunderstorms will redevelop as we go into this afternoon. you can see the rain is moving across the northeast, heavy in spots, especially just off the southeast coast of long island. and then we are going to see some breaks in the clouds before more showers redevelop. also heavy rain falling right down near new orleans where we could pick up a couple inches of rain through this morning. but the biggest threat for severe weather will be in to maryland, also into virginia, and the eastern carolinas where we could see some large hail, damaging winds, and even some isolated downbursts possible. so we could see some wind damage out that way and we are looking for those who form, especially lat