ATLANTA—More than 17 million people on the East Coast are in the path of what could be severe thunderstorms, damaging winds and tornadoes on Sunday.
In Florida, the governor and top emergency officials are keeping an eye on a system developing near Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula that could bring anywhere from 5 to 10 inches of rain beginning Sunday. The wacky weather comes at the end of a week of scorching temperatures out West and flooding that killed nine soldiers when their military vehicle got caught in the rushing waters of a rain-swollen creek at Fort Hood, Texas.
In Southern California, nine people were sickened by the heat during a high school graduation ceremony as temperatures flirted with triple digits. In Ohio, the third round of the Memorial PGA tournament was delayed by thunderstorms.
