Weather Academy: July 28
In this week's Weather Academy, Wes Peery is explaining more about the urban heat island effect.
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AZCentral | The Arizona RepublicSevere thunderstorm warning, nickel-sized hail, 40-60 mph winds to hit many Phoenix-area cities
The National Weather Service in Phoenix issued a severe thunderstorm warning for Peoria, Surprise and Sun City until 8 p.m. Sunday.
- Fort Worth Star-Telegram
‘Bitterly cold air.’ Farmers’ Almanac predicts another chilly Texas winter
Are you ready for winter?
- Palm Beach Daily News
Tropics watch: Tropical wave over far eastern Atlantic could become a depression this week
An area of disturbed weather over the far eastern Atlantic ocean could become a tropical depression as it moves westward this week, forecasters say.
- WFTV
Sunday evening forecast: Spotty storms to start the week
Spotty storms have developed and will be possible around sunset.
- WHIO
Storms possible with downpours today; More showers expected tomorrow
Partly to mostly cloudy skies along with chances for showers and thunderstorms today.
- WTVT
Today's tropical weather forecast
FOX 13’s meteorologist Dave Osterberg says there is a tropical wave coming off the coast of Africa. It has the potential to develop. Even if it does become a named storm, it has to fight the Saharan dust layer. Otherwise, it is quiet in the tropics.
- Raleigh News and Observer
Watch lightning crawl ‘all over the sky’ off new Outer Banks bridge in North Carolina
A photographer was recording the sunset when lightning struck.
- Victorville Daily Press
High Desert expected to get increased monsoonal moisture
Monsoonal weather should arrive each afternoon and early evening this week, with mountain areas having the highest chance of heavy rainfall.
- The Fayetteville Observer
Weather Permitting: Could things be heating up in the tropics?
Wednesday looks like the hottest day of the week in Fayetteville, say 97 degrees or so.
- Associated Press
South Korean rain turns roads into rivers, leaves 9 dead
Some of the heaviest rain in decades swamped South Korea’s capital region, turning Seoul’s streets into car-clogged rivers and sending floods cascading into subway stations. At least nine people were killed — some drowning in their homes — and six others were missing, with more rain forecast, officials said Tuesday. More than 45 centimeters (18 inches) of rain was measured in Seoul’s hardest-hit Dongjak district from Monday to Tuesday evening.
- Bloomberg
Worst Seoul Storm in 80 Years Kills Eight, Floods Capital
(Bloomberg) -- At least eight people were killed and six people missing after one of the heaviest rain storms in 80 years hit Seoul, flooding streets and subway stations and causing blackouts. President Yoon Suk Yeol convened an emergency meeting at the country’s National Disaster and Safety Status Control Center Tuesday after the storm dumped as much as 141 millimeters (5.5 inches) of water an hour in parts of South Korea’s capital. Three of the eight victims drowned as their basement apartment
- KIRO
Officials provide updates on several wildfires burning across eastern Washington
Several wildfires continue to burn across eastern Washington.
- Reuters
Tourist boats marooned, farm land parched as drought lowers Europe's rivers
VILLERS-LE-LAC, France (Reuters) - Business for Francoise Droz-Bartholet has reduced to a trickle, just like stretches of the Doubs River straddling the French-Swiss border that her cruise boats usually ply. Water levels in rivers, lakes and reservoirs across western Europe are running low, or even dry, amid the severest drought in decades which is putting stress on drinking water supplies, hampering river freight and tourism and threatening crop yields. She now has to bus clients along the gorge to a starting point further upstream to a point in the river where there is enough water for her cruise boats to navigate.
- Belleville News-Democrat
More heavy rains, flash flooding possible in southwest Illinois. Here’s the forecast
St. Clair, Madison, Monroe, and Clinton counties will be under a flash flood watch beginning at 4 p.m. Monday.
- NBC News
Many rescued from flash flooding in Denver as Kentucky faces possibility of further floods
Firefighters rescued at least 19 people in Denver, Colorado, after flash floods turned roadways into rivers Sunday night as Kentucky faced possible further storms.
- Reuters
Temperatures rise as France tackles its worst drought on record
France on Sunday braced for a fourth heatwave this summer as its worst drought on record left parched villages without safe drinking water and farmers warned of a looming milk shortage in the winter. Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne's office has set up a crisis team to tackle a drought that has forced scores of villages to rely on water deliveries by truck, prompted state-run utility EDF to curb nuclear power output and stressed crops. National weather agency Meteo France said it was the worst drought since records began in 1958 and that the drought was expected to worsen until at least the middle of the month.
- Statesman Journal
Oregon wildfires: Historic lookout wrapped in foil to protect from Cedar Creek Fire
Multiple wildfires are burning around Oregon that have brought recreation closures to popular areas including Diamond Peak and Waldo Lake.
- The State
Latest earthquake hits a different part of the Columbia area
More than 60 earthquakes have hit the Midlands in 2022.
- Bloomberg
Searing Temperatures Across Europe Trigger Weather Warnings
(Bloomberg) -- Another bout of extreme heat and dry weather set to sweep Europe has pushed the UK and France to issue fresh warnings for this week.The UK Met Office warned of extreme heat in London and southeast England from Aug. 11-14, while the country’s Health Security Agency extended a heat-health alert that started on Tuesday for all regions until Aug. 14. The French state forecaster has a similar “extreme heat” amber warning out for parts of the south. The forecasts cap a summer of extreme
- KRIV
Tropical Weather Forecast - August 7, 2022
We are still talking about the Saharan Dust and the National Hurricane Center is watching a tropical wave that could not be further away in the Atlantic.