The summer of mortal sudden floods continues, with two people killed by sudden floods on Wednesday near Spring Hope, North Carolina, when their car was swept by flood waters that moved quickly.
The area was under a “considerable” flood warning on Wednesday night and 4 to 6 inches of rain fell in the afternoon and enter the night trip.
On Thursday, an excessive rain risk is established from the Panhandle de Florida to southeast Virginia, although the threat will not be as high as Wednesday with a total of 1 to 2 inches and possible higher isolated amounts expected with these storms.
The humid pattern continues to create colder conditions than normal for the region, brings cold cold conditions in some places, such as Richmond, Virginia, which broke its daily record of the coldest temperature yesterday when reaching only 70 degrees.
Thursday morning is more recorded in Greensboro and Elizabeth City, North Carolina, as well as Roanoke, Virginia.
Meanwhile, the meteorological alerts of fires are found in places of seven states of the West: Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming, Nebraska and Dakota del Sur, for critical climatic conditions of fires that lead to a rapid fire of new or existing forest fires in these regions.
The climatic conditions of the fire are expected to remain critical until at least on Saturday, but they could persist until the beginning of next week.
Extreme heat warnings remain in force for southwest parts, including Palm Springs, Phoenix and Tucson, since heat notices are also in force on Thursday for other areas of the region of the four corners that extend to the plains when the heat begins to change to the east in places like albuquerque, the pass Denver and Sii City.
High temperatures between 108 and 118 are possible for these areas until Friday, since record temperatures are possible for cities such as Palm Springs, Phoenix Tucson today and Albuquerque until Friday.
The heat is expected to be less extreme for the southwest that is directed at the weekend and, until next week, the general heat will return to the northeast and much of the country. You can see road storms capable of producing some tornadoes, large hail and significant winding bursts on Thursday and Friday for parts of the upper west.
But for Thursday, the highest threat focuses on North Dakota, including Fargo and Bismarck, since severe storms will also be possible for others such as Grand Forks, Billings and Aberdeen.
A boat from New York City crosses the East River while the Bruma of Canadian forest fires cover the sky of August 5, 2025 in New York. Canadian forest fires that burn in northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan are sending smoke through the center of Canada, the region of the great lakes and the northeast of the United States, reducing the quality and visibility of air in the main cities.
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On Friday, parts of North Dakota, including Fargo, are under the highest threat again, since a few tornadoes, very large hail and significant wind bursts will be possible once again for this area.
In other places, generalized air quality alerts have been canceled for many areas in the west and northeast, since this smoke round of Canadian forest fires begins to decrease, although Chicago still remains under an air quality alert for Thursday due to the pollution and smoke of forest fires.
Some misty skies can be visible throughout the west and northeast, although it does not necessarily mean unhealthy air quality.
Meanwhile, the tropics are becoming more active as we approach the peak of the Atlantic hurricanes season as the tropical storm Dexter continues to walk northeast by the North Atlantic, although it does not represent any threat to home in the United States.
An area of showers and thunderstorms off the southeast coast can become a low pressure system in the next 24 hours, although the potential development window is beginning to decrease.
The conditions on warm waters can allow the formation of a tropical depression this weekend and the system is expected to move north and northeast towards the sea.
However, showers are expected throughout the southeast during the weekend, since this system tries to organize and then goes out to the sea.
