odessa. for the third time in ten days, the ukrainian authorities are deeply concerned about the disconnect of eight nuclear reactor at the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. which is 20 miles south of the city of 700,000 people, because they say that it has been disconnected, forcing the use of the backup power, the diesel generating system in order to cool the nuclear reactor. now, this is happened three times in the, past and every time it has happened the concerns over a nuclear meltdown increase. now, there are two un inspectors still on the site. they re supposed to be there permanently, or at least for the foreseeable future. so it will be interesting to see who they ll, blame or whether they go public with what s going on there. meanwhile, the ukrainian president zelenskyy has been claiming relatively limited success saying that it least two villages in the south, during the southern offensive here have been captured. and one village in the east. now, these villages
to more potential flooding. the forecast model shows these showers will continue, probably, until sometime early or late afternoon on wednesday, before we finally get a break and begin to dry out, but not before and additional 2 to 4 inches falls in this area. i mentioned earlier, these things are connected, right? we have this ridge of high pressure, the jet stream writing way to the north out west. notice this dip in the east, this is acting like a conveyor belt bringing moisture is from the gulf, all the way up into the northeast. that s the reason why we have had the flooding episodes there. eventually, the heat dome out west will shrink a little bit, and the dip in the east will rise and that will mean warmer temperatures heading into the weekend. until we get, there we are dealing with heat alerts, heat advisories, excessive heat warnings, out in the western united states, at least through tuesday, through today, possibly extended into wednesday and thursday because, just on labo