so, by say thursday and friday, atlanta gets into middle 90s, will feel like into the 100s. new york city also will get into the lower 90s, will feel like close to 100 degrees by the afternoon hours. and with all of this said, plenty of instability in the atmosphere, some severe storm potential into parts of minnesota, into western wisconsin today. some flooding associated with this could also be seen around the region, mainly south of minneapolis going into the afternoon hours. and watching a couple areas of disturbed weather. tropical storm don in the works. at this point, it looks like it will have a central america impact, and we ll follow this into the weekend. guys? all right, tropical storm don. thank you. let s check on cnn money stream this morning. global reaction to the failure of republicans to repeal and replace obamacare. global stock markets fall overnight, the whole world here questioning the future of the trump economic agenda. the u.s. dollar falling to its lowe
the pacific ocean, we ll knock the temperatures down into the lower 90s for daytime highs. hot and dry weather established over the western u.s. clearly, but this is also creating a fire risk you can imagine with the triple digit heat, bone dry conditions and the potential for scattered dry thunderstorms we have an elevated fire threat. what is a dry storm? glad you asked. a lot of times these thunderstorms west of the rockies don t have a lot of precipitation associated with them, they often create lightning and that lightning can start forest fires very quickly. the rain actually evaporates before it reaches the ground. the embers start to burn, smolder and spread very quick beingly. and we ll talk about some of the fires ongoing in a moment. but this these are the red flag warnings that we have in place from utah into nevada, california and the state of washington. we have over 39 active large fires that are in place across the western u.s. and it really
forecasters are whiny, high winds, low humidity. you can make a lot harder for crews to fight these fires. our meteorologists at the fox weather center. dry and hot. that really sums it up, check. you re looking i m credibly warm to butchers today again. humidity only getting lower prayer that s when you start to see some fire activity. high today, up to 113. look up to 113 and death valley. it s not going anywhere. it has been a couple couple ofe can see it right there is a high on monday. the heat extend to other areas. climbing up to the lower 90s. sane into triple digits easy in the phoenix area. really staying that way cost southwest. wednesday as well. the heat stays commit the lack of humidity stays. unfortunately, deeds wednesday. that will continue to let these fires grow. we can t get a handle on peer a lot of activity happening in the areas on area. we have a lot of fires of over hundred acres or more expending far north into the areas of washington, including washington.
national hurricane center has the storm system parallel with the florida coast. perhaps intensifying to a category one by sunday or monday. we will keep a close eye on that. mostly sunny across the northeast today. look at the warm up. lower 90s for the big apple for the weekend. back to you. europe s migrant crisis continues to escalate. how they are responding to this next. need to hire fast?
monday. we will keep a close eye on that. mostly sunny on the northeast today. lower 90s through the weekend in the big apple. back to you. disturbing allegations against derrick rose. andy scholes has the bleacher report coming up next. does your makeup remover every kiss-proof,ff? cry-proof, stay-proof look? neutrogena® makeup remover does. it erases 99% of your most stubborn makeup with one towelette. need any more proof than that?