This article was republished from AccuWeather.com
Showers, localized downpours and low clouds will pester the Ohio Valley and mid-Atlantic during the last days of September, due in part to Helene , AccuWeather meteorologists say.
Helene made landfall as a powerful Category 4 hurricane in the Florida Panhandle on Thursday night and roared through the interior Southeast with destructive winds and extensive flooding at the end of the week.
By the weekend, the former hurricane was absorbed by a non-tropical storm over the lower Ohio Valley, where it will remain nearly stationary and bring several days of clouds and wet weather. Only when a cold front descends into the Midwest from Canada early next week will the shell of the former hurricane slowly progress eastward toward the mid-Atlantic coast.
Gloomy weather will result in poor conditions for fall activities such as festivals and leaf-peeping, disrupted travel and localized flooding.
“Progressing into early week, a lack of steering winds in the upper levels of the atmosphere will result in Helene’s lingering moisture to pose a risk for heavy rain and localized flooding across portions of the mid-Atlantic region, especially across part of the central Appalachians,” AccuWeather Meteorologist Brandon Buckingham said.