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Levels drop significantly as the plume drifted downstream. it remains unclear what the health and environmental impacts of the spill will be. e.p.a. hasn t said why or what the health risks are to humans or animals at this point. bad news out there. let s get a check on your weather now with nbc meteorologist domenica davis in for bill. hi, ayman. how are you? good. we re looking at storms in the tennessee valley. that s where we have this one cell south of paducah and north of memphis, packing pretty good wins. today, we will see some severe weather, basically through the middle part of the country, moving up to the northeast by later this evening. the real story, though, is the heat. these are actual air temperatures that we re looking at. from missouri all the way down through the gulf states. 104 for the high today in dallas. 102. heat indices will be higher than that. heat indices once again in these ....
Oregon and the state of washington. so 80% of the u.s. is abnormally dry now. 46% of the u.s. is currently if a severe drought which is pretty much the largest area in drought since basically 1956. so very dry year here across the lower 48 for us. again, we do have that ongoing heat wave across parts of the central plains. triple digits in dallas. 102. 96 in kansas city. the other concern is that when you factor in the humidity, it feels even hotter. we have a number of heat advisories in place across missouri, kansas, oklahoma, northern parts of texas. we re talking about heat index values in excess of 100 degrees up to 115 degrees. what a heat index value of 115 means is that when you head outdoors, it feels like 115 degrees, very dangerous stuff. as we head into the next couple of days, we re not really going to be seeing much relief as far as those top temperatures, triple digits for today. into tomorrow, 108 could be your high temperature in tulsa, oklahoma. kansas city, 102 for t ....
The see that long line that frontal boundary that basically splits the nation in two. on one side you ve got the extreme heat. on the other the possibility of severe storms. as we advance the maps we re going the see the possibility of seeing not only the heat, maybe a few showers popping up in parts of the southeast due to the remnants of tropical depression five. heat, we ve got in dallas. 102. 96 in houston. the high today in 97, kansas city. chicago, getting in from 92 outside wrigley field. 92 in tampa. 110 degrees in phoenix. the valley of the sun. 87 in seattle. 71 in billings. take a look, here we have 17 states, we have some form of heat warning, advisory or watch that will be in effect, a brutal weekend no, question about it, where temperatures are going to feel right at 100 degree or beyond. certainly very hot times out there. folks, take it easy. t.j., let s kick it back to you. i ll talk to you again coming up shortly about the very latest on the happenings here in the gul ....