41.   Showers and thunderstorms associated with a persistent plume of tropical moisture emanating in the Gulf of Mexico will occur from eastern Texas to the Delmarva Peninsula Wednesday.

42.   Showers and thunderstorms will erupt along the central Gulf coast and Florida on Sunday as a steady flow of tropical moisture is drawn north from the Gulf of Mexico.

43.   Slow-moving thunderstorms will heighten the risk of flooding across portions of the southern Rockies, where tropical moisture remains trapped in the low and middle atmosphere.

44.   Storms will be strongest in the Gulf States due to the rich supply of tropical moisture.

45.   Strong high pressure in the central Atlantic Ocean will direct a steady supply of rich tropical moisture north along the Atlantic seaboard through Thursday.

46.   South Florida will also have showers and thunderstorms as remnants of an old front interact with surges of tropical moisture.

47.   Strong to locally severe storms may develop in northern Texas along the boundary between hot, dry air and residual tropical moisture.

48.   The express is a pattern of wind currents about eight miles high that, each winter, brings tropical moisture from Hawaii to the American Southwest.

49.   The front will intercept tropical moisture streaming north from the Gulf of Mexico, producing more than an inch of rain from East Texas into southern Illinois.

50.   The heaviest rain will pelt eastern North Carolina and southeastern Virginia as tropical moisture is drawn inland.