soap. the other story, what s going to actually warm much of the country up is going to be this air out of the pacific. here s hawaii. we call this almost the pineapple express. this is going to bring heavy rain into california. this storm eventually is going to push the cold air out and away from the country. get ready for a big rain event in california. beneficial rains but too much, too soon, could lead to flooding problems. as we go throughout the day today, rain will move in, especially tonight, all day long. almost like a hose of rain coming into northern california. some spots could pick up 4 to 8 inches of rainfall. again, great to fill up the reservoirs but we don t want too much, too soon. we could deal with isolated flooding problems in california. and eventually we will see that storm moving across the country with some snow friday and saturday. so you get the picture. cold outbreak, a little bit of snow. i like the term pineapple express. it s a cool one. pineapples in
filtering in. temperatures have been well above average across parts of the northeast. we are looking at a first in a series of fronts. here comes the first front that will cool some things down. we will see a number of these in the area. we already see parts of pennsylvania down in the southwest. we will see storms embedded through out the day today. eventually you will be seeing the showers spreading through other areas of the north east. it won t be a big rain event out there. nonetheless you could see the umbrellas across parts of pennsylvania and up state new york. eventually that system gets out of here and wednesday you are looking at quieter weather through the northeast. we have been above average. that gets warmer as we head further south. houston already in the 70 s. 45-minute am police and here s a look at the high temperatures
residents. ten inches of rain fell on the west coast yesterday and there have been reports of high water rescues and people trapped in their homes by mud. in oregon at least two people were killed by falling trees. milk bill karins joins us now. the damage is incredible here. yeah. we re watching the effect of the most powerful storms to go through california in five years. california used to deal with storms like this practically ere winter. ever since we started the historic drought, we haven t seen anything like this. it s needed but we goat see the effect of mother nature. this is the before picture. this is 94% of the state of california in severe drought. now we have the big rain event. we ll get the new updated map next week. all indications this is a just a little drop in the bucket. it will not come close to knocking us out over the drought. lakes that went down hundreds of feet only went up about five to ten feet. it was significant. so let s not minimize it.
weekend. tropical storm fernand made land faufl in the southern gulf of mexico. this one thankfully was near land so couldn t become a hurricane, just a big rain event. it was hot over the weekend, very hot in the central plains, 96 minneapolis with a record high. we are right in the mid summer-like pattern for the end of summer. this is going to be an end of summer heat wave, here to stay for at least the next week from texas through the northern plains. at times some of the warm air will come to the east coast. we had a little rain in the areas that need it and deserts. not a lot of us made it up to the fire areas. we didn t get a lot of relief from that. your monday forecast. the big headline is, of course, the heat. 98 in minneapolis today. that s going to be easily the hottest temperature of the summer. it s funny. we had that august, chicago, the northern plains, new england wasn t that hot. this is going to be one of the hottest weeks of summer. a lot of kids are going back to s
umbrella. showers in the carolinas and atlanta. if you re in wisconsin, minnesota or iowa, you have light rain to deal with, but it s a pretty beautiful day out there today. definitely cooler in new england than the last couple days. this is a typical beautiful spring day. . s should be in the 50s and 60s with a lot of sunshine out there. the big buzz is what s going to happen this upcoming weekend. we need a big rain event. we re well behind on rainfall. in the southeast, it will be a washout of a weekend. the northeast, looks like you ll get away with a good saturday, but then sunday and monday, you ll get dredged as that storm heads up the east coast almost like a nor easter type storm. no snow, but just a cold chilly rain coming for many areas by the weekend. so an ugly weekend. we ll enjoy the rest of the week. thanks so much. let s turn to sports. for the first time this season, 49-year-old jamie moyer, say it again, 49-year-old jamie moyer took the hill for the rockies trying