expect the conditions to worsen here. so that is the concerning elements in the fire weather forecast. but notice that the fire weather concerns of red flag warnings that are widespread across the region of eastern arizona, western areas of new mexico, really going to keep the area for firefighters very challenging. and you will notice of course it is not just in region. 90% of the western u.s. dealing with a drought situation, upwards of almost 40% in that extreme even worse category of the drought concerns. so any rainfall at this point has been official. there is a couple disturbances trying to bring rainfall and we ll see that across parts of the northwest even into northern california, but the outlook here for next week does show that the temperature trend to stay above average. and unfortunately, the rainfall outlook to remain below average and that is the concern here at least over the next week around the southwest. max. two, one, zero.
temperature soared in the upper 30s. a 53 european countries, 35 of them have seen some record heat since the year 2000. that s the bulk of the 53 european countries. 14 of those of 35 in the last five years have seen record setting temperatures. you can kind of see there s this relentless temperature trend that seems to tick up. and some cases they re saying that the average temperature across europe has gone up three degrees celsius. we d like to keep it around one or most places about one. flash flooding along the german border. you may not be able to see the numbers. purple shaded areas most areas saw between 100,150 millimeters of rainfall. the average for july is only 87. they saw of that in one day. the extreme events keep materializing and looking at them year after year.
for as much as one and a half to two and a half inches of rain. and you noted quite a bit of gus tis winds. power outages could be expected. wind gusts nantucket 51 miles per hour. boston closing in on a 40 miles per hour wind gust. again could see a few areas where trees and branchs come down. of course power outages could be expected. notice on the immediate coast, that s where the winds are strongest. in the areas that s where the rain is coming down inland. you expect to see some of the heavy snowfall. snowfall amounts already in the past 24 hours as high as ten inches scattered about this region of maryland, pennsylvania and new york state. we have quite a bit of winter weather the last couple weeks. northern tier of the u.s., north dakota and wisconsin, minnesota. snow depths amounts of how much snow is on ground. 12 to 18 inches. and some people frankly are getting tired of it. the scenes out of wisconsin where snow continues to come down and the temperature trend
even snow from northern sections of new england and even ice for northern sections of maine. a dangerous commute for a lot of people this morning. and you can see more rain to come as we go into the next couple of days through saturday. you can see pockets of icing. the pink snow as far south as virginia, north carolina for the higher elevations. we will see widespread amounts. under an inch of rain. we could see anywhere from 2 to 4 inches of snow. isolated amounts even higher, especially for the higher elevations of the appalachians. here is the temperature trend. we will be warming up for the me have. cooling off considerably for portions of the east with temperatures in new york only topping out in the low 50s by sunday. john? jennifer gray, thank you very much. we are getting more information on this deadly russian missile strike on a crowded train station in kramatorsk in eastern ukraine as more civilians are being killed and injured. jake tapper goes inside a hospital to hear
conditions across parts of the dakotas. look at this. person areas of michigan, parts of wisconsin as well as minnesota. widespread coverage of 2 to 4 inches of snowfall. a few pockets taking you as high as 18 inches of snow over the next 24 to 36 hours. that s just one element of the wintry weather we have in store. the gusty winds certainly going to be in place, at times gusting to 45, 50 miles an hour in the advisory zones. the arctic air is going to be the talk of town. this is one of the coldest air outbreaks of the season so far. not just for areas of the great lakes, but even potentially into the northeast by the time we get to, say, friday and saturday afternoon. but how about this. look at the temperature trend. in chicago, the high of only in the lower 20s on wednesday. 17 and eventually 15 degrees. those are the afternoon highs across this region before we warm it up come saturday. eventually that cold air does arrive across the northeast. new york city may be the subfreezin