quickly to pull that teen to safety. not only is he facing a bench of charges, he s in the hospital, so are two people in the car that he hit. this was a bad situation all around. lucky it wasn t worse. that s exactly right. good story. thank you for that. let s get back to indra petersons with a look at the weekend forecast. i love that. this is the word weekend, it sounds so good. it s nice. we have a double whammy out there. we talk the northeast to the southeast. generally being dry. florida you ll always have your afternoon thunderstorms but overall, temperatures are perfect and only an afternoon thunderstorm in florida. no complaining there. d.c. 70s. atlanta, more 70s. loving this. we see the story going to be once again, notice all the cool temperatures in the pacific northwest. temperatures 15 or so degrees below normal. on the other side of it, temperatures 15 degrees above normal. when you see that and you have a system move through the area, you ll see severe thun
crews say attacking the fire by air has been critical to slowing the progress. yesterday, we said it was the fourth largest fire. it s so huge, right? we can t believe that. indra petersons is tracking the weather for us. how is it going? right. it s a dry season. in california you see huge brush fires in california. we are looking at a lot of moisture cruising in today. the humidity levels are going to be up 40% to 50% chance we could see the afternoon thunderstorms. by tomorrow, we start to see the chances go down and temperatures start to go up. a little bit better today than we are expecting for the end of the week. otherwise, let s talk about the rain. here is what the radar looked like yesterday evening. we saw heavy showers. we knew it was coming. the cold front kicked through the area. we are seeing spotty showers. it looks like it was all gone. as long as the cold front is in place, we have the threat of
several weeks. we have several flash flood watches and warnings. we have the a flood advisories for parts of nevada and parts of idaho and the northwest stretching into northern rockies where we see the heavy rain. across the northeast where millions of people live, yes, we have the potential for showers, thunderstorms, and some heavy rain, leading to flash flooding in parts of jersey, up towards pennsylvania, connecticut, massachusetts some again this could be a big downpour on your picnic. just have an alternate plan. there is the labor day forecast. we have this cold front that will push eastward. we ll still have a rain any day on tap tuesday. once the cold front pushes off, it will be beautiful. maybe take a vacation day on wednesday if you live across the northeast. just saying. across the southwest that s where we could see afternoon thunderstorms as well, with very hot temperatures across texas, especially dallas at 98. a quick look at the beach forecast, arthel and gregg.
the afternoon thunderstorms popping up here and there. with that, the threat of dry lightning. the other thing we are watching is the tropical moisture move sboog the area for the weekend. remember what we saw last weekend, heavy storms in the area. we have tropical storm juliet. all the moisture making its way in could mean one to two inches of rain. it doesn t sound like a lot. the ground is so dry, a half inch of rain in vegas last weekend produced flash flooding. in the southwest a different picture. they are not used to as much rain as we are in the east. it doesn t look like it s cooling down much. look at des moines. you know what that feels like it is hot. flat and hot. a lot of red on that map. thanks, indra. he thought he hooked a big one. a texas fisherman realized he was the bait. there was a 200 pound shark on his fishing line and it dragged him and dragged his kayak miles
do you see a lot of lizards? not cute ones. that one is adorable. let s get straight over to indra petersons with a look at the forecast. i m with michaela that was really cute and beautiful. beautiful weather as we go through the weekend, i love this thanks to the cold front that brought the thunderstorms through the northeast yesterday. the cold front still in place, continuing to make its progress to the south so the mid-atlantic and slowly to the southeast, still needing another day of showers but behind it we re talking gorgeous weather. keep in mind even though we re seeing improvement in the southeast we re still going to be talking about those typical afternoon thunderstorms in the area but all of this eventually changes as we go in through next week, dome of high pressure finally we ve been waiting for this will be building and drying out not just the northeast but the southeast. so much better through next week. look at the temperatures trying to travel this weeke