AccuWeather's Bernie Rayno and Ariella Scalese take a look at the top story for Aug. 25.
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00:00 the storm that caused the major
00:02 problems in the Great Lakes on
00:04 Thursday already impacting the
00:06 Northeast today over half a
00:08 million addresses are without
00:09 power this morning and in
00:11 Michigan and Ohio from severe
00:13 weather. There's also reports
00:15 of a nocturnal tornado causing
00:18 damage in Weberville, Michigan
00:20 that is south and east of
00:22 Lansing. Also our accurate
00:24 meteorologists say relief is on
00:26 the way for some after the
00:28 hottest weather of the year in
00:30 the central U.S. That heat dome
00:32 that caused the sweltering
00:33 temperatures will retreat from
00:34 the Midwest, but unfortunately
00:36 it will intensify over the
00:37 southern U.S. Again, let's take
00:39 you out live to New York City.
00:41 Some wet weather coming to New
00:43 York City here this morning and
00:45 make sure you allow yourself
00:46 some extra time to get where
00:47 you're going for your morning
00:49 commute because we have rain on
00:51 the way. I'll show you the
00:52 radar here in a second. I do
00:53 want to get into the storm
00:54 reports that we did see
00:55 yesterday afternoon evening.
00:57 Look at this band of mostly
00:59 wind reports, but again a
01:01 reported tornado south and east
01:03 of Lansing in Weberville in
01:05 Michigan last night and because
01:07 of this wind with these
01:09 thunderstorms, lots of power
01:10 outages this morning. Over 400,000
01:14 homes and businesses without
01:15 power in Michigan, 230 in Ohio,
01:18 50,000 in Pennsylvania and it's
01:20 in Pennsylvania that we find
01:21 the rain this morning. Now,
01:23 thankfully we don't have any
01:24 severe weather. This area
01:26 cluster of showers and
01:27 thunderstorms beginning the
01:28 weekend. There is a new severe
01:29 thunderstorm warning. I'll get
01:31 to that in a second. We are
01:32 looking at New York City. Here
01:34 comes the rain rain crossing the
01:36 Delaware River right now, so
01:37 we'll get that rain in the New
01:39 York City. Some downpours here
01:40 as we go through this morning.
01:42 Also, some wet weather in
01:43 Boston. Let's take you a little
01:45 farther south. The dying band
01:46 of what's mostly a little bit of
01:48 rain around Baltimore,
01:49 Washington, D.C. But right on
01:51 the edges of that heat boy, you
01:53 see this all the time. We do
01:54 have a new severe thunderstorm
01:56 warning that has just been
01:57 posted here. Let me put this on
01:59 its latest. There is the
02:00 thunderstorm cell and that
02:02 Boeing action right in here,
02:04 north and west of Charleston,
02:05 telling us that there's going to
02:07 be some damaging winds. So
02:08 that's going to be coming into
02:09 the northern part of Clay
02:10 County and also northern
02:12 Kennewick County in West
02:14 Virginia. These warnings till
02:15 630 will continue to watch this
02:18 line of thunderstorms as it
02:19 presses south and east. This is
02:22 the area to watch for severe
02:24 weather this morning, probably
02:26 staying north and east of the
02:28 Charleston area. All right, let
02:30 me show you how this is going to
02:31 work as we go through the rest
02:32 of today. That line of
02:33 thunderstorms continuing to
02:34 press south. It should weaken
02:36 mid to late morning. Mostly
02:38 rain. New York City, Boston,
02:39 Portland. Then we get a little
02:41 heating. Thunderstorms start
02:43 firing up mid to late
02:44 afternoon. There they go.
02:45 Washington, D.C. I'm
02:46 conflicted for you because
02:47 you're getting the rain this
02:49 morning. That tells me the best
02:51 chance of a severe weather will
02:52 be off to your south. We'll see
02:54 if you can get into that severe
02:55 weather, but certainly south
02:56 toward Richmond toward Virginia
02:58 Beach. Some nasty
02:59 thunderstorms later on this
03:01 afternoon and this evening.
03:03 There's that threat area. The
03:04 some means we're looking at
03:06 spotty severe weather, damaging
03:07 winds and flooding rains.
03:10 That's going to be the big
03:11 story. Once again, I don't
03:13 think we're going to see a lot
03:14 of flooding here this morning.
03:15 I think the showers and
03:16 thunderstorms are weakening,
03:17 but watch that area mid to late
03:19 afternoon. We'll see if we can
03:21 get a chance to get some
03:22 rain. We'll see if we can get
03:24 some rain mid to late
03:25 afternoon. Ariel and we'll
03:26 continue to track it. We will,
03:28 and we're talking about the
03:29 heat still because it was an
03:31 intense day in Houston
03:32 yesterday. The daily record
03:34 high temperature was broken at
03:36 109 degrees. The old record for
03:38 yesterday was 105 and 109 also
03:41 ties the hottest temperature
03:43 ever in Houston. We've hit it
03:45 back in August of 2011 and
03:47 we're tracking the same heat
03:49 wave that we were experiencing
03:50 from the end of July
03:51 throughout August 21st. We had
03:52 a few kind of break days,
03:53 meaning we weren't at 100
03:55 degrees, but now we're tracking
03:57 another extreme heat wave in
03:58 Houston. So just an absolutely
04:00 exhausting summer stretch here.
04:02 Of course, it's not just
04:03 Houston. It's not just Texas.
04:04 We're talking about over 100
04:06 million people affected by the
04:08 hot weather with excessive heat
04:09 warnings, excessive heat
04:10 watches and heat advisories,
04:12 which means more daily record
04:14 temperatures being challenged
04:15 in cities like Dallas 107,
04:17 Austin 107, Houston. You'll get
04:19 pretty close to the daily
04:20 record again for today at 102
04:22 Shreveport 104 and New Orleans
04:24 up to 98 degrees. And that's
04:26 just the air temperature. You
04:27 factor in other things like the
04:29 humidity, the sun angle for
04:30 this time of year, the wind,
04:32 whether or not we've got gusty
04:33 conditions or calmer wind to
04:34 make it even feel hotter. That
04:36 all brings you to the air
04:37 accurate, the real field
04:38 temperatures, and we are still
04:39 focusing in on an area after
04:40 the real field temperatures in
04:42 northern parts of Louisiana
04:43 throughout Arkansas 115 to 120.
04:47 Now, when we look ahead to the
04:49 weekend from north to south
04:51 here, we're going to start to
04:52 see a little bit of cooling and
04:53 lower humidity, but still a lot
04:55 of heat throughout the south
04:56 central as we head into the
04:57 weekend. So we take a city like
04:59 Wichita. You go from the 90s to
05:00 the 80s Oklahoma City from the
05:02 triple digits to the 80s, but
05:04 into San Antonio into Dallas to
05:06 Houston, it still stays
05:07 incredibly hot.