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 After Tropical Rainstorm Ida tore through the Northeast last week causing historic flooding and unleashing destructive tornadoes, a new severe weather threat is expected across the rain-weary region on Wednesday.

At least 50 deaths were blamed on the former hurricane from Connecticut to Virginia, according to The Associated Press, as it unleashed torrential rainfall that inundated basement apartments in New York City, caused homes to collapse in New Jersey and put a major highway underwater in Philadelphia. Recovery and clean-up efforts in those areas could be impeded by the storms on Wednesday.

“A ridge of high pressure provided the region with some very nice weather on Tuesday; however, [forecasters] are expecting a cold front to produce showers and heavier thunderstorms in the eastern third of the country on Wednesday,” said AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Carl Babinski.

“Most of these thunderstorms are expected from later Wednesday afternoon into Wednesday night in the big cities and near the coast,” Babinski said.

Cities in the path of these storms include Montreal, Quebec, Albany and New York City, New York, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. The entirety of Vermont and New Jersey could also experience severe weather.

More than 65 million are facing some type of severe weather risk on Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center.

Light rain had already begun in cities such as Montreal on Wednesday morning, but the truly heavy and severe storms won’t likely arrive until the afternoon and evening for cities farther south.

“We’ve already seen this boundary trigger multiple strong thunderstorms in the Great Lakes region,” explained Babinksi. There was one tornado reported Tuesday, in Kendall County, Illinois, outside of Chicago and several reports of damaging wind gusts and hail across the Midwest.