1.   As tropical air reaches the hill country, it ascends the sloping terrain, boosting the lift needed for intensifying rains.

2.   As tropical air circulating around the storm is drawn toward the northwest, it will encounter a stalled front along the Northeast coast.

3.   At the surface, tropical air surges northward ahead of these disturbances.

4.   A Bermuda high pressure system will circulate tropical air into the southeastern states, including Florida.

5.   A band of strong thunderstorms will move across the Tennessee and Ohio River Valleys as moist tropical air is drawn northward from the Gulf of Mexico.

6.   A corridor of tropical air from the western Gulf of Mexico will trigger a few storms in east Texas and Louisiana.

7.   A flow of tropical air preceding the front will supply enough moisture to cause flooding in some areas from central New York to western Maine.

8.   A warming and moistening of the Gulf States will occur Tuesday as tropical air from the Gulf of Mexico presses north behind a slowly advancing front.

9.   A westward extension of the Bermuda high will assist in circulating tropical air from the southern Plains into the rest of the nation east of the Rockies.

10.   A stream of tropical air from the south will initiate more storms in the Mississippi and Tennessee Valleys.