A total of 1 to 4 inches of rain fell in the i-95 corridor on Thursday, leading to numerous lightning flood warnings.
Some isolated places have seen more rain than almost 6 inches fell into Burlington County, New Jersey.
The light rain still falls on New England on Friday morning and this afternoon should be drier with a mainly cloudy sky that holds in the region until night.
The risk of flooding now moves to the Carolines with strong showers and thunderstorms starting this afternoon and continuing during the night because precipitation rates up to 2 inches per hour are possible.
Dallas-Fort Worth is also under the risk of excessive precipitation Friday afternoon and evening, with strong showers and expected thunderstorms and sudden floods possible in urban corridors.
Meanwhile, Midwest is covered in Canada Forest Fire Fire, leaving millions of people in dangerous respiratory conditions, while more than 650 forest fires burned in Canada, with 275 labeled as “out of control”.
Minneapolis, Chicago and Detroit are in the top ten for the worst air quality in the world among the big cities on Friday morning and air quality alerts are in place for all the states of Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan and for certain parts of Nebraska and Missouri.
On Saturday afternoon, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin will probably have the worst of smoke, but the misty sky will remain in a large part of the midwest.
A car rolls in a flooded street after heavy showers in Staten Island, New York, United States, on July 31, 2025, in this screen entry obtained from a social media video.
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To the west, fires burning north of the Grand Canyon and in Utah create poor air quality and a misty sky while the dragon fire along the northern edge of the Grand Canyon has burned 112,000 acres and is currently 9%contained.
In the center of UTAH, Monroe Canyon’s fire burned 48,000 acres and is contained at 7% because evacuation orders have been set up.
On Friday, a total of 23 million Americans in six states are in the process of advice in heat, as heat indices between 105 and 110 are expected from Louisiana to South Carolina.
In the southwest, an extreme heat warning is in place for Phoenix and Tucson, in Arizona, because high temperatures between 107 and 114 are possible from Friday to Sunday, although temperatures for the rest of the Midwest and the East are rather light this weekend.
