for you. we re warmer in d.c., so you could have a slight chance of mixing in thunderstorms, too. we have a lot of rain right now coming down through ohio, west virginia, to the mountainous areas of west virginia, even raleigh, north carolina has had some rain. eventually, all the cloud cover moves into new england. you ll start with sunshine in new york city and hartford, and as the day progresses, the clouds will move in and it will be a cloudy finish. and eventually, the rain showers push in also. so, here s the forecast today. the best chance of significant airport delays, definitely around washington, d.c., and richmond and raleigh, too, with showers and thunderstorms. as far as new england goes, most of those rain showers will be later this afternoon towards this evening. i mentioned the southeast, how gorgeous you re going to be today. still hot in texas. whole middle of the country actually looks nice. a little chilly in chicago today. we re also seeing a chance of thunderstorm
let s talk about where it happens to be. right now, the storm is moving towards the a yucatan peninsula. it is almost imfobl see covered by the cloud cover. now, on both sides of the peninsula, we had one thing that was really helping drive the storm, and that would be warm water on both locations. it s going to be moving into an area with minimal shear, shear, strong upper level winds that could destroy it. we re not expecting much shear, so the storm has the opportunity to move to the northwest and second strengthening. if you zpoom in, you see winds that could reach 100 miles by wednesday, and thursday, winds 110 miles per hour and guffs up to 135. the farther out this extrapolates, the less accurate this becomes. we re talking about a spinning storm on a rotating plane, and