Weekend Holiday Outlook: Western Heat, Eastern Delight, Midwestern Dry Out
The outlook for the next week looks beautiful for the East while the West continues swelter with high temps. Temperatures in Los Angeles will remain in the upper 90’s through the weekend while New Yorkers and New Englanders will enjoy comfortable temps in the low 80’s with abundant sunshine. Today, another dry day on tap but a few showers will start to creep in Thursday night and Friday morning. In the Midwest, more storms will flare up across the plains today. Severe weather is possible around lower Michigan and Illinois. This is not good for areas that have already seen surplus amounts of rainfall. Once front clears through, drier weather will filter in. Graphics courtesy of Accuweather
It looks to be a quiet end of August in the Tropics. Last week we dealt with Hurricane Dean in the Caribbean and Mexico and Tropical Storm Erin in the gulf, yet no storms to look at on the map today. There is a weak tropical wave moving into the southwestern Caribbean but we could see it develop into a depression in a few days. That storm would become Felix.. I took a look at the GFS at 10:30 PM and it showed signs of a developing system in the central Atlantic the second week of September, but we know those models change so often. photo credit: NOAA
Fires in Greece continue burn with over 80 still blazing in the north of the country and in the south peloponnese Peninsula. More than 60 people have now been killed destroying hundreds of homes. Helicopters have been dousing flames, but have not been very effective. Fires in Greece are common during hot dry summers but not like the past week. The government in Greece has issues a reward of up to one million euros for information on any arsonists. The problem at large is the major winds that continue to fuel the fires. 
While the East is starting to warm back up, severe weather in Chicago paralyzed the evening commute. More than 265,000 ConEd customers are without power Thursday night. As the storms hit Chicago, Metra commuters were stranded on trains after power lines toppled. At midway and O'Hare more than 500 flights were canceled. On top of that, the deluge of rain caused the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District to open locks on the North Shore allowing million of gallons of raw and partially treated sewage into Lake Michigan. 
It's not only the Southeast U.S that is baking in heat. It's areas of Eastern Europe, including Turkey, Ukraine and Russia. Temperatures are soaring into the 100's in certain locations. The temperature hit 101 degrees in Greece, yet the hottest spot was 107 in Turkey. The reason for this all this excessive heat is because of the Scirocco winds off of the Sahara Desert. 
Autumn like temps hit Northeast: It’s been an amazingly cool weather pattern since this weekend for much of the Northeast. I’m looking at all the observations and models and it’s surprising what’s going on right now. A stalled out front draping across the Mid Atlantic has created a major boundary between cold and warm air. North of the front, temps in New York are in the 50’s and 60’s and south of the front, temps across Virgina are in the 90’s. There will be major changes ahead the next few days as warm air returns to the entire area. From Boston to D.C, temperatures are expected to reach near 90 until the middle of the week. We will see a brief return of summer for the weekend. Ahead, we can look at comfortable sunny, yet cool conditions for the upcoming labor day holiday. It’s still a little early, but the models are showing a shot of cool air coming down from Canada. This will provide cool nights and sunny days. A definite early taste of Autumn. 
You can view the NOAA graphic on the right navigation for location. GFS model this morning showed the storm moving into the Gulf of Mexico later next week. 
Ready New York was set up by the OEM ( Office of Emergency Management). It's a program that was put in place to educate New Yorkers on how to 
Today, Severe weather caused many New Yorkers to be late to work. Not to mention flooded apartments! The subways also had flooding issues with 34th st and 42nd street stations shut down. Apparently in Brooklyn, there is chatter of a tornado? We will need to confirm that but I am sure it was just very heavy winds. Power outages were reported across many areas as well. The National weather service did issue a Tornado warning however for SE NYC just before 6:30. 
In the summer, Six of the world's 
On August 1 at 1200 Zulu Time (9:00 p.m. Japan Local Time), Usagi was located near 27.5 north and 134.8 east or approximately 385 miles east-northeast of Naha, Okinawa, Japan.