Kevin Schneider

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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. A stalled boundary spinning up an area of low pressure is trying to change that. The National Hurricane Center officially highlighted an area off of the coast of Carolina with a low-end chance to develop. Here's what we know.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/08/Screenshot 2025-08-02 070322-1754139868399.png">An area of low pressure is expected to form sometime Saturday. Once it forms, it will be traveling over some pretty undisturbed waters in the Atlantic. Temperatures on the surface out here are past 80, which would help maintain any tropical characteristics if they were to form. <img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/08/Screenshot 2025-08-02 071442-1754140489886.png">If anything were to develop, it will get swept out to sea, courtesy of a high parked on top of Bermuda. That's not to say we won't see any impacts stateside, however. <img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/08/Screenshot 2025-08-02 072228-1754140955857.png">Rip currents will likely be the biggest concern from coastal Carolina down through the northeastern portion of Florida. Waves could reach as high as 10 feet in some offshore areas late Saturday night into Sunday morning, but the wind direction is going to be what causes the rip current concern. Be sure to heed the advice of the flags on the beaches into Sunday.

An Area to Monitor in the Atlantic

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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. Iona has weakened to a Tropical Depression in the Central Pacific basin, but there are more storms farther east. <h1>HAWAII</h1>Iona strengthened into a Category 3 hurricane Tuesday morning, with sustained winds of 125 mph, but has since weakened to a tropical depression. Iona is moving west in strong trade winds that are being enhanced by these tropical systems, prompting concerns about fire weather and generating large swells. High pressure to the north of these tropical systems is helping to spur strong winds as the pressure gradient is tight across the Hawaiian Islands. Wind advisories and red flag warnings (fire weather warnings) have been issued due to the increased risk of wildfires spreading quickly. Please avoid activities that can create a spark or flame.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/08/1-1754105080038.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 went the other direction and strengthened to a Category 1 hurricane Sunday morning. Gil formed early Thursday morning, well to the west of Mexico and is continuing WNW. There's a good chance this is the strongest Gil will ever become, gradually weakening over the next few days. <h1><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/08/Screenshot 2025-08-02 072912-1754141383106.png">Looking Ahead</h1>There are a few other areas to watch behind Gil. One with a more 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 2025-08-02 073042-1754141523655.png">

Tropics: Eastern Pacific Keeps Churning Out Systems.

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High pressure is expected to strengthen over the coming week, bringing back extreme heat for many around the desert southwest. Temperatures are in record territory to start the weekend in Phoenix, but will get back there again in just a matter of days. In between, temperatures won't be THAT far away anyway. <img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/08/Screenshot 2025-08-02 052612-1754134032054.jpg">High pressure this time of year means one thing: heat. Temperatures will sky-rocket as the high situates itself overhead, especially into the middle of the week. Extreme Heat Warnings are in place to cover Saturday (above) but those will get replaced with more later this week. <h1><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/08/Screenshot 2025-08-02 052558-1754134025009.jpg">FROM BAD TO WORSE</h1>It's not bad enough to be dodging records for much of this week. The hot weather might be here to stay, with a persistent ridging setup sticking around. The Temperature Outlook from the Climate Prediction Center is circling the southern Four Corners for some above-average temps. <img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/08/Screenshot 2025-08-02 052853-1754134361557.jpg">

Searing Heat Builds in the Southwest

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WeatherNation Meteorologists

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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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Brittany Lockley

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Air Quality Alerts are in effect across a broad swath of the Midwest, impacting over 100 million Americans as thick smoke from Canadian wildfires blankets the region. States under the alert include Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, and northern Indiana. Major metropolitan areas such as Chicago, Minneapolis, and North Dakota are all experiencing dangerously poor air quality conditions.&nbsp;<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/08/Screenshot 2025-08-02 051327-1754133216551.jpg">The front the passed through brought cooler and drier conditions, however, it also brought the winds coming down out of the North. This is the primary cause of this rapid decline in air quality, as a new wave of wildfire smoke 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 on Thursday.<video src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/08/2025-08-02 05-15-00-1754133331768.mp4" controls="true" width="100%"></video>The Air quality index (AQI) in parts of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and North Dakota are in the "unhealthy" category for Saturday. The "unhealthy" designation on the AQI scale indicates that the air quality is poor and may pose health risks, especially for sensitive groups.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/08/Screenshot 2025-08-02 051303-1754133191286.jpg"><img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2025/08/Screenshot 2025-08-02 051351-1754133242181.jpg">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.

Canadian Wildfire Smoke Triggers Air Quality Alerts Across Upper Midwest

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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.

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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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HAWAII - According to the Central Pacific Hurricane Center, Hone's center passed 45-50 miles south of the Big Island on Sunday morning (5:00 AM HST); the closest the center has been from Hawaii as it strengthened to a category 1 hurricane.<div class="twitter-tweet" style="display: flex; justify-content: center" data-twitt-post-id="1827646960544690327" src="https://x.com/WeatherNation/status/1827646960544690327"></div> Hone has weakened to a tropical storm as of Monday morning. Winds have decreased to 70 mph as it continues to drift westward.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/08/Screenshot 2024-06-22 031148-1724691563061.jpg">The latest update has Hone gradually moving away from the Big Island, but gusty winds and widespread rainfall remain a threat. Hone is expected to gradually weaken as it moves west of Hawaii through this week. It was the first named storm in the Central Pacific Basin since 2019!<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/08/tropics-1724691613217.jpg">Rainfall amounts have piled up, with some locations picking up more than 2 feet of rainfall!<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/08/rain-1724691977298.jpg">Some of our top wind reports have maxed out over 90 mph in the last 24 hours.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/08/WIND-1724691986057.jpg">The Central Pacific doesn't have a list of names for each season like the other basins, since activity here is typically sparse. Instead, there is an ongoing list, which was last used to name Ema in 2019.<img src="https://media.weathernationtv.com/app/uploads/2024/08/Screenshot 2024-08-24 043502-1724495717860.png">Stay tuned to WeatherNation for the latest on the tropics!

Tropical Storm Hone Dumps TWO FEET of Rain

An Area to Monitor in the Atlantic

After getting off to a record fast start with

Tropics: Eastern Pacific Keeps Churning Out Systems.

An impressive Kelvin Wave (a large-scale lift

Searing Heat Builds in the Southwest

High pressure is expected to strengthen over

Relief Across the Country After Cold Front Passes Through

Cooler air has arrived! Well, for much of the

Canadian Wildfire Smoke Triggers Air Quality Alerts Across Upper Midwest

Air Quality Alerts are in effect across a bro

Cold Front Brought Significant Flooding to I-95

NORTHEAST - Record high temperatures broke in

Tsunami Impacts Hawaii, Alaska, West Coast After Russia Earthquake

At 7:24 pm ET on Tuesday, July 29th, a magnit