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Air Quality Alerts are in effect across a broad swath of the Midwest and Northern New England, impacting many Americans as thick smoke from Canadian wildfires blankets the region. The worst of the air quality is found in the Great Lakes. <img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/08/web 8-1754312892237.png">A new wave of wildfire smoke is drifting southward from multiple blazes burning across the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan, Alberta, and Manitoba. These fires have been active throughout the summer, and this is not the first time their smoke has reached the U.S. This latest plume began sweeping into the Upper Midwest last Thursday and still lingers this week.<video src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/08/fda-1754335948249.mp4" controls="true" width="100%"></video><video src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/08/smokeysee-1754335958812.mp4" controls="true" width="100%"></video>The Air Quality Index (AQI) in parts of Wisconsin, Michigan, and the Northeast is in the "unhealthy" category. The "unhealthy" designation on the AQI scale indicates that the air quality is poor and may pose health risks, especially for sensitive groups. Here's a look at the air quality as of Monday afternoon.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/08/monday pm-1754335731436.png">People with preexisting conditions such as asthma or heart disease are especially vulnerable. Health officials recommend staying indoors, limiting physical activity, and using air purifiers if available.&nbsp;<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/08/Screenshot 2025-08-01 053220-1754047973977.jpg">Conditions will gradually improve by Saturday as wind patterns shift and help disperse the smoke. Tune into WeatherNation TV for more details.

Jackie Brown

Canadian Wildfire Smoke Triggers Air Quality Alerts Across Upper Midwest & NE

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Taban Sharifi grew up in Southern California between Los Angeles and San Diego. She is a Certified Broadcast Meteorologist (CBM) with the American Meteorological Society (AMS). She has a B.S. in Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Environmental Sciences with a minor in Environmental Systems and Society from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Go Bruins! While in school, Taban was a meteorology intern with NBC LA. There she helped forecast daily weather for the greater Los Angeles region and created a playbook to deploy weather sensors for NBC owned-and-operated stations across the country. Her first on-air job took her to San Angelo, Texas, where she was a morning meteorologist and co-anchor. Working in West Texas gave her knowledge and experience covering severe storms. From there, she moved to Palm Springs, California. People think forecasting in California is sunshine all the time, but with temperatures in the 120’s, wildfires, damaging winds, floodings, and earthquakes, the forecasting kept her very busy! She also worked there as a general assignment reporter and told community stories. Taban is excited for the challenge and opportunity to forecast nationally with WeatherNation. She also looks forward to exploring all that Colorado has to offer!

Taban Sharifi

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High pressure is expected to strengthen over the coming week, bringing back extreme heat for many around the desert southwest. Extreme Heat Alerts (above) have already been added for the late end of the week. Heat risk impacts are already under major and extreme categories for Wednesday across Arizona.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/08/Screenshot 2025-08-03 160940-1754258986404.png">Temperatures are expected to hit over 110° by Wednesday. In many cases, temperatures will keep climbing through Friday.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/08/Screenshot 2025-08-04 071420-1754313271467.jpg">Temperatures will either get dangerously close to breaking record highs on Thursday or are expected to break records for the day. <img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/08/Screenshot 2025-08-04 071509-1754313323020.jpg">Phoenix, AZ, broke the record high temperature on Saturday, hitting 114°. There will be a few days this week when more records are at risk in Phoenix.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/08/Screenshot 2025-08-04 071444-1754313291632.jpg">There is a higher confidence through early August that temperatures will remain above average for the region.<h1><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/08/Screenshot 2025-08-03 161257-1754259198069.png"></h1>

Searing Heat Builds in the Southwest

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Originally born in Spokane, Washington,  Jackie's Dad was in the Air Force which led her to a life of travel. She has lived in Wichita, Okinawa, Japan, Baltimore, New Jersey, Indiana and South Carolina.  After graduating from Kadena High School, in Okinawa Japan, she got a full basketball scholarship to Coppin State College. On the court she was a 4-year starter and reached over 1000 points in her basketball career. She was also named Athlete of the Year for the whole university in 2002. Off the court, she earned a degree in Broadcast Production/English.

After college, she landed a job as a radio personality. Jackie went on to have a successful career for 12 years working at KXLY broadcast center. While on the radio, she decided to change career. Jackie went back to school, graduating from the Mississippi State Meteorology Broadcast Program. From snow, to tornadoes, to hurricanes, she has had experience forecasting all these events.

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After getting off to a record fast start with named systems, the Atlantic Basin has been largely quiet over the past month, but things are changing. We have two areas of interest we are watching, and as of Sunday night, we have Dexter. Tropical Storm Dexter has formed in the Atlantic. Current maximum sustained winds are 45 mph, and this system is currently moving NE at 14 mph. Dexter is forecast to move away from the U.S. coast.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/08/Screenshot 2025-08-04 070922-1754312972669.jpg"><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/08/Screenshot 2025-08-04 071024-1754313031841.jpg">Wave heights can be impacted by this system. We can see some offshore waves between 5-10 feet. There's a seperate area of low pressure that could break off and spin towards the coast late this week. The chances of development are still low at this point.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/08/Screenshot 2025-08-04 071310-1754313203404.jpg">Late Saturday evening, the National Hurricane Center highlighted a new area to watch! A tropical wave will move off the coast of Africa in the next day or two, and there will be a window for tropical development by the middle and end of next week!<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/08/Screenshot 2025-08-03 184919-1754268563096.png">

Tropical Storm Dexter Forms In The Atlantic

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Kevin Schneider

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Strong winds in the upper levels of the atmosphere. This time of year, storms are easy to come by around the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, but strong jet stream energy is going to try to organize them. We saw how well it can organize storms last week, with a tornado-warned storm dropping baseball-sized hail in Cheyenne, and softballs in Kansas Sunday night.<div class="twitter-tweet" style="display: flex; justify-content: center" data-twitt-post-id="1952391580163207320" src="https://x.com/WeatherNation/status/1952391580163207320"></div><h1> Upper Level Set-Up</h1>Severe storms will remain in the forecast as the jet stream energy remains elevated around the strong ridge of high pressure in Arizona. As storms fire up around the Rockies, the jet stream energy will help organize storms and carry them to the east into the Plains, where they'll be able to strengthen.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/08/Web 1-1754309526598.png"><h1>Severe Weather Outlooks</h1>Isolated severe storms will remain in the forecast this afternoon and Tuesday as a new low-pressure system is moving out of the Northern Rockies.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/08/throughtod-1754334590552.png"><h1><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/08/Screenshot 2025-08-04 113418-1754328869539.png"><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/08/Web 5-1754310637375.png"></h1><h1>Forecast Timing</h1>Expect storms to peak with daytime heating. This afternoon, with a low-pressure system to the north, we can see more storms develop along it. As the low pushes north, more storms will develop again on Tuesday, with some storms sticking around for your morning commute.<video src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/08/2025-08-04 08-31-11-1754310725731.mp4" controls="true" width="100%"></video>

Another Stormy Stretch Along the Front Range

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After a week of relentless heat, a frontal boundary has cut into high pressure across the South, dropping temperatures but also spurring rounds of heavy rain. Flooding is likely for some areas across the South into the work week.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/08/Screenshot 2025-08-03 065121-1754225716471.png"><h1>Forecast</h1>As the stalled front sits near the I-10 corridor, rounds of storms are expected to pop-up on either side of the front for the next few afternoons, with the heaviest rain beginning to shift north by Tuesday. Pockets of 5-8" of rain could accumulate in some areas, likely leading to flooding and/or flash flooding. Seek higher ground if a flash flood warning is issued.<video src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/08/08-04 rse-1754333473284.mp4" controls="true" width="100%"></video>Flood watches remain in effect into Tuesday.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/08/Screenshot 2025-08-04 074652-1754315221139.png"><h1>Cooler Air</h1>A wedge front is also following the storms across the Southeast, leading to below-average temperatures from the Carolinas to the west. This bottles up the cool air east of the Appalachians.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/08/Screenshot 2025-08-04 074936-1754315384441.png">Most areas in Florida will not feel the cool down, expected for areas in the Panhandle dealing with heavy rain.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/08/Screenshot 2025-08-03 155943-1754258388029.png">Tune into the eastern regional forecast :10 past the hour for more details.

Alana Cameron

Front Stalls - Heavy Downpours Target the Southeast

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An impressive Kelvin Wave (a large-scale lift zone) has recently spurred the development of numerous tropical systems in the Eastern and Central Pacific. Gil continues to churn west as a post-tropical system, and there are a couple more areas of potential development on its heels.<h1>Hawaii</h1>As systems have been moving south of the island chain, winds have been increasing at times in response. Red Flag Warnings remain in effect through Sunday afternoon.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/08/Screenshot 2025-08-02 204134-1754188981193.png">It has been quite dry across much of the Hawaiian Island chain, with several areas in severe to extreme drought conditions. This means vegetation is dry enough to burn quickly in a fire. The higher winds are also creating big swells, which should gradually drop over the weekend.<h1>GIL</h1>Gil formed early Thursday morning, well to the west of Mexico, and is continuing WNW. Gil is now a post-tropical cyclone, and this is the final NHC forecast cone that will be released. A gradual decrease in forward speed is expected. Additional information can be found in the High Seas Forecast by the National Weather Service.<h1><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/08/Screenshot 2025-08-03 135002-1754250641715.png">Looking Ahead</h1>There are a few other areas to watch behind Gil, forecasted to have more of a westward path, it appears. One is expected to develop in the next week, while the other is a coin toss. The next two names on the list are Henriette and Ivo.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/08/Screenshot 2025-08-03 134853-1754250745342.png">

Tropics: Eastern Pacific Keeps Churning Out Systems

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Cooler air has arrived! Well, for much of the northern tier of the country, cooler air has arrived. The same front that dropped temperatures up north is pushing south into this weekend. After many were sweating out much of July, August is getting off to a better start<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/08/Screenshot 2025-08-02 051442-1754133321766.jpg">Newark had just as many days at 100 than they did below average for the month. A cold front that produced strong storms has dropped temperatures AND humidity significantly for much of the northern half of the country (east of the Rockies anyway). Highs are expected to hang out around average for most over the next week.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/08/Screenshot 2025-08-02 051659-1754133432716.jpg">The air behind the front is not only cooler, it's drier too! Compared to dew point temperatures in the 70s, this will give the cooler weather a much more comfortable feel. <video src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/08/sodry-1754105193784.mp4" controls="true" width="100%"></video>The August temperature outlook looks to warm back up across most of the country, so unfortunately, this early taste of fall doesn't appear to be a sign of the trend for the first two weeks of August.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/07/1-1754017630022.png">Stay with WeatherNation for the latest.

Relief Across the Country After Cold Front Passes Through

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Rob grew up in South Florida, where daily afternoon storms and hurricanes piqued his interest in meteorology early on. That interest was fostered by his teachers and his father, who one time brought him onto the roof of their home to watch a funnel cloud move through the Everglades several miles away. Years of filmmaking and tv production in high school gradually pushed him toward broadcast meteorology at Florida State University, where he joined and eventually led the student run daily weather show. After graduating with a Bachelors of Science in Meteorology, he began his career at KESQ in Palm Springs, California before heading to KFSN in Fresno and WLOS in Asheville, North Carolina. He has covered a diverse array of extreme weather events, including haboobs and flash flooding in the desert, extreme snow in the Sierra, hurricanes, and Appalachian ice storms. He also enjoys telling stories and reporting about weather issues.

Connect with Rob on <a href="https://twitter.com/WxRobBradley">Twitter</a>

Rob Bradley

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NORTHEAST - Record high temperatures broke in the northeast Wednesday afternoon, including Islip, LaGuardia, Atlantic City, and Bridgeport. Now, a cold front will tap into the high heat to create intense rainfall rates that could lead to significant flash flooding before cooler and drier conditions take over for the weekend.<h1><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/07/Screenshot 2025-07-30 191941-1753924917036.png">Flood Risk</h1>Earlier, the Moderate Risk of flooding verified with numerous reports of flash floods from D.C. to New York City! Thankfully, the risk is going down for the overnight!<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/07/Day1SVR-1754000696484.png"><video src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/07/VO_073125_RNE_NEW YORK CITY, NY_CHOPPY TIME LAPSE OF CARS DRIVING THROUGH FLOODWATERS, OTHER SIDE IS BLOCKED BY SEMI_NYC DOT_LS_E073125-1753997126015.mp4" controls="true" width="100%"></video>The remaining rainfall should less than an inch but a few isolated area could see some heavier totals.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/07/1-1754017044218.png">

Jesse Kelley

Cold Front Brought Significant Flooding to I-95

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<div class="twitter-tweet" style="display: flex; justify-content: center" data-twitt-post-id="1950951552719700357" src="https://x.com/NOAAResearch/status/1950951552719700357"></div>At 7:24 pm ET on Tuesday, July 29th, a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck Russia’s Far East, prompting tsunami alerts for Alaska, Hawaii, and the U.S. West Coast. The largest earthquake ever recorded was a 9.5M quake in Biobio, Chile in 1960.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/07/Screenshot 2025-07-30 142730-1753907262489.png">A couple locations on the West Coast remain under Tsunami Advisories through Crescent City, California.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/07/Screenshot 2025-07-30 142609-1753907175868.png">Below are some of the observed maximum tsunami heights recorded for Hawaii, the West Coast of the United States, and Alaska. <img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/07/Screenshot 2025-07-30 144338-1753908237553.png">A part of the Northern California coast line was under a Tsunami Warning Wednesday morning as tsunami waves continued to come ashore. Below you can see the observations from Crescent City, CA where wave heights measured 3.7 ft.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/07/Screenshot 2025-07-30 052229-1753874561022.png"><div class="twitter-tweet" style="display: flex; justify-content: center" data-twitt-post-id="1950396558660554830" src="https://x.com/WeatherNation/status/1950396558660554830"></div>Sirens sounded in Hawaii Tuesday evening every hour from when the Tsunami Warning was issued until the first waves impacted around 7:17 pm local time. Maximum amplitude of the waves reached nearly six feet in Kahului. For more on evacuation zones in Hawaii, see this<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://static.pdc.org/tsunami/index.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawL2Uj5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHjZTTPWnQRd1wGqZ9g_HvYaTOt4HLmXa7dBAhOLV9sKEfw84BLS7cE7CgrJn_aem_92Fax-jvYytTZm5riEe0ig"> website.</a><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/07/Screenshot 2025-07-30 053800-1753875555241.png"><div class="twitter-tweet" style="display: flex; justify-content: center" data-twitt-post-id="1950483958728438027" src="https://x.com/CivilDefenseHI/status/1950483958728438027"></div><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.tsunami.gov/">The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center</a> said the impacts would be on a global scale, with waves of nearly 3 meters (~12 feet) possible along some coasts of Russia and Ecuador.&nbsp;The Tsunami Warning Center has broken down the potential hazards and public action needed to take based on the level of alerts. When a Tsunami warning is issued, you must move to higher ground or inland, as dangerous coastal flooding and powerful currents are possible.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/07/ea9d0de5-6816-43ff-b872-1f6a923e9edd-1753846260455.jpg">The quake’s preliminary rating of 8.0 was later bumped up to an 8.8, making it one of the highest magnitude earthquakes in recorded history.&nbsp;<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/07/ezgif-4fd1f2bd3d959c-1753893497771.gif">Russia’s Tass news agency reported that many ran into the streets as damage started to occur to homes and other buildings, as they noticeably swayed under the earthquake's power. &nbsp;Earlier in July, five power quakes – the largest with a magnitude of 7.4 -- struck in the same area near Kamchatka. &nbsp;

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Tsunami Impacts Hawaii, Alaska, West Coast After Russia Earthquake

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The plains have had an active summer with severe storms, and in the past 24 hours, things were busy once again. Damaging winds, hail, and flooding were all reported. It was active today, but things are calming down overnight.<h1>OVERNIGHT</h1>The Storm Prediction Center has issued a marginal risk for severe storms overnight for a small portion of Kansas, including the cities of Salina and Wichita. The main threat with any severe storms that develop will be damaging winds and hail. For the rest of the plains and Midwest, there is a general risk of thunderstorms overnight with a low severe threat.<h1><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/07/MARGINAL RISK -1753924763494.png">OVERNIGHT</h1>As the low lingers, strong to severe storms with heavy rain will be possible in eastern Kansas overnight. Precipitation will become more limited on Thursday morning for Kansas, Missouri, and Illinois.<video src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/07/low presurejejeje-1753925421627.mp4" controls="true" width="100%"></video><h1>Flooding</h1>Watch for isolated to scattered flooding threats over the next few days as these storms continue to move through the region. The Weather Prediction Center has this region under a level 2 (SLIGHT) risk for flooding for at least the next two days.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/07/Screenshot 2025-07-30 135203-1753905127832.png">There are isolated to scattered risks for flooding through tonight.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/07/Screenshot 2025-07-30 135220-1753905144957.png">

Storms Wrapping Up In The Plains

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Unusual and intense heat and humidity have settled over the Middle Mississippi and Ohio Valleys and are expected to persist. The Heat Risk for much of the country is red, which is a major level of heat risk. There are even many areas of purple, which is the highest level of heat danger: Extreme. These locations need to limit time outdoors, stay hydrated, and check on your neighbors.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/07/Screenshot 2025-07-29 134308-1753818201812.png"><h1>Southeast</h1>Tampa, Florida, broke an all-time record high on Sunday, July 27th. Reaching 100° beats out the old record of 99° set on June 26, 2020. Tuesday, Tampa broke the all-time record for the highest heat index recorded by hitting 119°. When you're breaking all-time records in FLORIDA, that's how you know how hot it truly is.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/07/Screenshot 2025-07-29 161143-1753827107280.png">Heat alerts continue across the Southeast, with Heat Risk levels at their highest in the country. Most of the southeast is at extreme Heat Risk through Wednesday afternoon, with heat index values still expected to be near 110°.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/07/high vsss-1753893583733.png">These conditions are particularly dangerous for vulnerable populations such as the elderly, children, outdoor workers, and those without access to reliable air conditioning or hydration.&nbsp;<h1>Mid South</h1>Heat alerts are expected to continue across parts of the Gulf Coast and Mississippi River Valley. Just like parts of the Southeast, heat index values are going to climb to over dangerous levels near 115 degrees. There is likely to be some relief from the heat in these areas as thunderstorm chances increase mid-week.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/07/heattttt -1753893455049.png"><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/07/todayaaaa-1753893518399.png"><h1>Northeast</h1>We even have heat advisories in the northeastern U.S, in particular, New England. Feels like temperatures here are likely to rise to 95-100°F through Wednesday before our next trough moves in.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/07/toddsss-1753893647902.png">Several records were broken on Tuesday, and there will likely be more records to add to the list before the day is over.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/07/Screenshot 2025-07-29 161427-1753827291973.png">The heat index values will be in the triple digits for cities like Philadelphia and New York.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/07/todayshshshs-1753893718276.png">Tune into WeatherNation for more top weather headlines.

Millions of Americans Under Heat Alerts

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Yep you read that right. The standing water from recent rains along with the water pulled out of the ground by stalks of corn can help make hot afternoons worse. Don't believe us? The National Weather Service follows this closely in the months of July and August, as the corn matures.READ MORE: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.weathernationtv.com/news/what-exactly-is-corn-sweat">All About Corn Sweat</a><div data-youtube-video=""><iframe width="640" height="480" allowfullscreen="false" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pyOT3C-_FHY" start="0"></iframe></div>Just tacking on a few degrees on the dew point temperature can make a huge difference! Some localized areas could sneak into the upper 70's and low 80's thanks to the corn. Imagine a 5% increase in the humidity.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/07/Screenshot 2025-07-22 104736-1753203165516.png">That can jump the Heat Index by 5° if you're hot enough! It makes a difference after a while.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/07/Screenshot 2025-07-22 104925-1753203019827.png">As with any sort of heat-related danger, it comes down to preparation - drinking plenty of water, and taking plenty of breaks. Be sure to check on your neighbors, even if they are a few miles away!

"Sweating" Corn Can Ramp Up Humidity in the Midwest

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Rounds of rain have been rolling through the Plains and Midwest, leading to saturated soils. This has lead to a more significant flood potential into the early morning hours Saturday, before rain chances drop quickly through the rest of the weekend. A level 3 out of 4 risk (top of page) for flash flooding is in effect through early Saturday morning.In addition to flooding, scattered damaging winds and hail are possible from thunderstorms in the Front Range of Colorado and near the low-pressure system from Oklahoma into Missouri.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/07/Screenshot 2025-07-25 211906-1753499959778.png">The low could help create enough turning motion to spur an isolated tornado. <img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/07/Screenshot 2025-07-25 211941-1753499988944.png"><h1>Forecast</h1>Storms will continue to rumble across the Kansas City area after midnight, with conditions settling down by daybreak. <video src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/07/overnightkc-1753500111079.mp4" controls="true" width="100%"></video>Additional rainfall of 2-4 inches will be possible, particularly in stronger storms.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/07/Screenshot 2025-07-25 212216-1753500155044.png">

Dave Holder

Flash Flood & Tornado Risk Remain Elevated Overnight in Kansas & Missouri

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Daily afternoon thunderstorms will remain in the forecast east of the Rocky Mountains and out onto the High Plains. With plenty of heat and moisture, severe thunderstorms will be possible.<video src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/07/2025-07-24 07-17-36-1753363113916.mp4" controls="true" width="100%"></video>Along with ample heat and moisture, strong upper-level winds will continue to overspread the area, both from an upper-low dipping down from Canada and along the periphery of the big heat dome across the central U.S. Friday's SPC risk includes the Dakotas for the threat of wind and hail. An isolated tornado threat is possible too.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/07/1-1753413182945.png"><video src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/07/New Baron Video 3-1753413250678.mp4" controls="true" width="100%"></video>More severe storms will be possible across Montana on Saturday. With the repeated rounds of heavy rain, some flooding could be possible.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/07/2-1753385353022.png">

Daily Afternoon Thunderstorms Across the High Plains

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Leftover moisture from the ghost of Invest 93L is coming back! It will loop back around the Gulf Coast with heavy rain sliding down I-10 throughout the week. Some places could see 3-7 inches of rainfall, which could lead to some localized flooding.<h1>Timing</h1>On Tuesday the showers will favor the southeast. But this is the continuation of the wet pattern. Think torrential, slow-moving showers and storms. If you get caught under one of these downpours, expect ponding on the roadways and some minor flash flooding.<video src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/07/tomer se futurecast-1753142080715.mp4" controls="true" width="100%"></video>Some of these storms could be severe, with damaging winds being the biggest concern. <img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/07/Screenshot 2025-07-22 100405-1753200273683.png">Towards the second half of the week, the old remains of 93-L will once again pick on Louisiana. That will bring back flooding concerns farther west on I-10. The biggest worry is in the southern parishes of Louisiana. <img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/07/Screenshot 2025-07-22 100519-1753200432489.png">If any of the heavier rain moves onshore, some areas could be talking about 3-5 inches of rainfall, with Thursday looking like the day with the heaviest rain.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/07/Screenshot 2025-07-22 100602-1753200423226.png">

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