Fox Weather Flash: 7/3

to the Gulf Coast states and we could see the possibility for severe weather as well. As some of these severe storms pop up across the midwest and the northern plains -- let's first focus on the dangerous heat. Heat advisories in place from the lower Great Lakes all the way down to the Gulf Coast. And in some cases we're gonna see records broken today especially across the southern plains they're your current temperature is 92 in Dallas 89 -- this 88 in New Orleans 85 in Atlanta. Look at the temperatures later on today our

fingers. Let's take a look at where we're dealing with possibility for severe weather we had 250 reports of severe weather across the midwest yesterday. Mainly hail and wind but we did have some tornadoes. That -- system is now pushing across the eastern Great Lakes into Pennsylvania. And new York and the mid Atlantic region also want to just -- show you where we have severe thunderstorm watch that is being whittled away which is great news but we could see some very heavy rain . As the system moves north. And eastward we're going to see the potential for one to two even three inches of heavy rain a very short period of time. Across areas that are already heavily saturated so that's going to be something would have to deal with. This weekend also want to make mention that we have a lot of moisture streaming into west Texas and also New Mexico up towards Oklahoma. And that's going to be a problem one of the story we're watching high pressure dominating across the south. Temperatures in the ninety's but with the heat indices going to feel like 100 degrees plus so that's going to be dangerous situation and we will continue to monitoring -- next. Thanks very much.

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