 welcome back here with america in the morning showers and thunderstorms in store for many areas of the country here's accuweather.com meteorologist carl erickson with the forecast well the umbrella will certainly come in handy today across a large swath of the eastern and southern part of the nation as moisture continues to increase northward showers and thunderstorms will break out across the mid-atlantic and southeast today in fact some of the storms near the nation's capital south through parts of virginia and north carolina can be strong this afternoon