Severe weather threat continues as summer heat swelters on both coasts
Yahoo • • nation
Key Points:
- Severe weather threats, including damaging winds, large hail, and tornadoes, are impacting parts of the central U.S. from Texas to Illinois, with an enhanced risk level 3 in Nebraska, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri.
- A flood watch is active until Sunday morning for eastern Kansas, western Missouri, northeast Oklahoma, and northwest Arkansas, while more than 50 million people on the East Coast face a slight risk (level 2) of severe storms including damaging winds and lightning.
- Heat advisories and extreme heat warnings are in effect across the South and West, with life-threatening temperatures expected in Portland, Oregon, and high heat advisories from California's Central Valley to the Bay Area.
- The Northeast will experience lower humidity this weekend, reducing heat danger despite temperatures in the 80s and 90s, while severe weather is expected to pause early next week before intensifying midweek.
- The Pentagon lockdown was lifted after an air quality scare was determined to be a false alarm.