Tracking Extreme Heat and Summer Thunderstorms Across America

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, this is meteorologist Steve Pelletier
and I am the weatherman.
Thanks for checking in totheweathermanpodcom on your
Tuesday.
It is the 29th day of the monthof July, a month that's shown
some places across the Northeastquite a bit of rainfall but
exceptional amounts of heat andhumidity, and we're actually
going today, on Monday we'llhave it on Tuesday and Wednesday

(00:20):
May ahead on Monday will happenon Tuesday and Wednesday Some
very extreme heat, so that theextreme heat warnings are in
effect for much of themid-Atlantic and northeast.
Across the southeast there areshowers and thunderstorms.
It looks like mostly rainyconditions during the afternoon.
East Tennessee, kentucky, allthe way down into western North

(00:41):
Carolina, all of South Carolina,georgia and through the Florida
Panhandle and also into Alabama, mississippi and southern
Louisiana.
It does look generally dry fromHouston up to Dallas, but it
looks like some showers andthunderstorms for Chicago.
Drying weather in Minneapolis,st Paul, rainy conditions in

(01:01):
central and eastern sections ofMontana and Wyoming all the way
down to Colorado and westernsections of New Mexico, around
four quarters.
It's their monsoon season andit looks like they are going to
continue with the rains thereover the next couple of days.
Dry weather though in LA andSan Francisco also the
possibility of some showers inPortland, but mostly cloudy
conditions with some sunshine inSeattle.

(01:22):
A frontal system arrivingduring the daytime on Wednesday
could bring some more rain tothem, but the big story, of
course, being the heat andhumidity across the northeast.
Excessive heat warnings willremain in effect Tuesday and
Wednesday, and then we have afrontal system approaching from
the northwest that's currentlymoving out of central and
southern Canada.
We'll be arriving in the eastwith some thunderstorms on

(01:44):
Thursday.
Temperatures back up to onlynear 80 to 85 on Friday,
saturday and Sunday, as wewelcome in the new month of
August.
So again, if you're travelingtoday, it looks like some
showers and thunderstorms inAtlanta and Charlotte, also
lighter showers across Miami andFort Lauderdale, but most of
the time it's just going to betypical South Florida weather

(02:04):
for today 90s daytime, late dayand evening thunderstorms.
Dry in Houston, dallas, asmentioned, thunderstorms in
Chicago.
Dry weather for much of theWest Coast Expected on Tuesday.
I'm Eddie Modrowski, fellowtour guide.
I'm the weatherman.
Hope you have a great day today.
Talk to you first thing onWednesday.
See you then.