The summer of the sudden deadly floods continues, with two people killed by sudden floods on Wednesday near Spring Hope, in North Carolina, when their car was swept away by rapid -moving flood waters.
The area was under a “considerable” lightning flood warning Wednesday evening and 4 to 6 inches of rain fell in the afternoon and in the evening trip.
Thursday, an excessive risk of precipitation is in place of the Florida Panhandle to the south-east of Virginia, although the threat is not as high as Wednesday with 1 to 2 inch totals and possible isolated quantities expected with these storms.
The wet motif continues to create cooler conditions than the normal conditions for the region, bring cool record conditions in certain places, such as Richmond, Virginia, which broke its daily record for the coldest temperature yesterday by reaching only 70 degrees.
More record cold tops are possible Thursday morning in Greensboro and Elizabeth City, in North Carolina, as well as in Roanoke, Virginia.
Meanwhile, fire weather alerts are found in places in seven western states – Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming, Nebraska and South Dakota – for critical conditions of fire fires conducive to rapid fire with new or existing forest fires in these regions.
Healthy fire conditions are expected to remain critical at least on Saturday, but could persist at the start of next week.
Extreme thermal warnings remain in force in certain parts of the South West, notably Palm Springs, Phoenix and Tucson, because the heat opinions are also in force on Thursday for other areas of the Corner Four region which extends in the plains while the Heat begins to move towards the east in places like Albuquerque, El Paso, Amillo, Dallas, Okhita, North Place Sioux City.
High temperatures between 108 and 118 are possible for these areas until Friday, because record temperatures are possible for cities like Palm Springs, Phoenix Tucson today and Albuquerque until Friday.
The heat should be less extreme for the southwest before the weekend and, in the next week, generalized heat will return to the northeast and a large part of the country. Storms of severe capable of producing some tornadoes, large crews and significant gusts of wind will be possible Thursday and Friday for the parts of the middle of the minting.
But for Thursday, the highest threat is centered on northern Dakota, including Fargo and Bismarck, because serious storms will also be possible for others like Grand Forks, Billings and Aberdeen.
A New York boat crosses the East river while the mist of Canadian forest fires launched the sky on August 5, 2025 in New York. Canadian forest fires burning in northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan send smoke by center of Canada, the Great Lakes region and the northeast of the United States, reducing air quality and visibility in major cities.
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Friday, some parts of the North Dakota – including Fargo – are again under the highest threat, because a few tornadoes, a very large hail and major gusts will be possible again for this area.
Elsewhere, generalized air quality alerts have been canceled for many areas through the Midwest and Northeast, because this series of Canadian forest fire smoke begins to stop, although Chicago remains under an air quality alert for Thursday due to pollution and forest smoke.
Some misty sky can be visible in the Midwest and the North East, although this does not necessarily mean unhealthy air quality.
Meanwhile, the tropics are becoming more and more active as the Atlantic Hurricane Summer Approach approaches while the tropical storm Dexter continues to go to the northeast in the North Atlantic, although it constitutes no threat to land in the United States
An area of showers and thunderstorms off the coast of the Southeast can become a low pressure system in the next 24 hours, although the potential development window is starting to decline.
Conditions on hot waters can allow the formation of tropical depression this weekend and the system should move north and then northeast at sea.
Showers are expected throughout the southeast throughout the weekend, because this system tries to organize and then pushes back to sea.
