amelia draper is standing by in the storm center with the details. amelia?bers right now it's feel tropical out there, and it will continue to feel tropical, muggy, gross, whatever you can think of right on into the weekend. check out how hoe it'sing in your neighborhood and a lot of triple digits still out there. the pawtuck river feeling almost 110 degrees. temperatures are bad enough on their own. we're at 91 degrees. you add in the mugginess, it's feeling 99 in washington and 98 in gaithersburg and 100 degrees right now in as we head throughout the evening hours, we'll slowly fall into the 80s, but even at 7:00 s p.m. it'sll feeling close to 100 degrees out there. most of us are going to be completely dry tonight. a few i olatedowers and a rumble of thunder west of the d.c. metro area. uor everybody tho it's about the warmth, and at 11:00 p.m. we're still at 87 degrees. i'll leave you with this, them huidity levels. that is prett, telling wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday and sunday,and, again, i'm trackingat dangerous he in the forecast. likely tomo

amelia draper join in a moment. we begin with nbc's jay gray live in t big easy. jay? >> reporter: as nightfalls overe new os with barry moving in, the time to move out is all but over now. >> if you're in one of the areas at risk, which is a huge portion of south louisiana, tonight be where you want to be and have what you need to havenon hand order to protect yourselves and your family. >> reporter: low lyingpa rrishs are already taking on water with a lot more on the way. windows boarded up, sandbags stacked. all the flood gates in and around the city are closed for the first time ever. pumping stions are online. >> high and heavy rain falls. this is what we are preparing for. >> reporter: some areas could see as much as 25 evens of rain. another major concern, storm surge. the mississippi river has been at flood stage for a record 260 days. >> i've never seen it this high. it's pretty impressive. >> reporter: a surge of five feet or more could push water over the levees. right now the corps of ngineers is confident that won't happen. >> it remains the case that we

let's get right to meteorologist amelia draper in the storm center. amelia, here we go again. >> kind of, pat. soet's start off with the good news there on your friday evening. storms tonight won't be as theypread or as intense a were last night overall. that being said, if you do have rain impacting the area with oppressive hidity out there, it could certainly be very heavy in nature. here's the latest on storm team 4 radar, a few olated showers firing up into parts of montgomery county, frederick county as well and keeping a close eye on this line of s. storm this is where we're going to to pull most of our storm chances from tonight as it slowly moves towards the east at 15 miles an hour based on the latest track. winchester can anticipate rain at about 5:30,uray at 6 sock and leesburg 7:45. however, i do suspect it will increase in speed as it continues to move to the east. we're at 90 degrees right now with a southerly wind and high humidity levels though. it's feeling more like 98 out there. 98 is the heat index in frederick and f 1ling about dow

. >> meteorologist amelia draper kicks off the team coverage with our conditions. has it cooled off an amelia? >> really hasn't, pat. still talking about feels-like temperatures in the triple digits in some locations, andhe with t dangerous heat in the forecast tomorrow, the national weather service has already issued a heat advisory. this is going to begin at 11:00 a.m. at the morning and go until 9:00 at night. check it out. all the sountiesded in orange are under a heat advisory. right now leesburg is feeling 100 degrees. tomorrow it will be feeling worse area-wide throughout the day, especially during the afternoon hours. looking to the iweekend, this saturday and sunday. all of the counties here in red are under an excessive heat g watch an for both your saturday and your sunday, so i'm talking about dangerous heat tomorrow, saturday and sunday as wel over the weekened will feel anywhere from about 105 to maybe en close to 115 degrees at times. bottom line, you want to take it easy the next through days. right now we're at 92 degrees, nd as we head throughout t

let's start with what's going on outside right now on storm team 4 meteorologist amelia draper. hi, amelia. >> even at 6:00 p.m., it's still feeling close to 100 degrees. across most of the area the mugginess has moved in and it's here to stay. check out the heat index in your neighrhood this hour feeling about 98 in washington and 99 in manassas and 2 down in quantico and 102 degrees out in leesburg right now. i heatex is when you factor in the humidity level and the air temperature currently coming in at 89 degrees. even by 7:00 p.m. it's still feeling like 98 out there. most of russ going to be dry tonight and tracking some isolated showers back into northern virginia and into parts of fauquier county. i'm going to have more on that coming up at 625,but, again, it's just all about the heat and the warm nights and hot days that we'll be experiencing right on into the weekend. 11:00 p.m. tonight, taking the dog out for the last time, it's still at 81 deges. the humidity levels, think that is wednesday, thursday, saturday and sunday says it it all. weon't see the humidity start t

live coverage from the national mall and beyond. >> let's start with storm team 4 meteorologist amelia draperon the storms. amelia, we knew this would pp ha, and indeed the situation is playing out right now, susan, with very heavy rain and lots of lightning in parts of the area.o of russ getting a break and some of us are seeing some light showers. those light showers right now falling down at the national mall. i want to take you first to the national mall where i circled it in red and you can see some light rain moving through. only green coloring here showing up on s orm team 4 radar. we did see very heavy rainfall there earlier including the lincoln memorial that. no longer the case.e now let's h out to the bigger picture here on the radar where i'm seeing some very heavy rain continue down into parts of prince william county, especially around the woodbridge area and into manassas and then back around i-8 is. look at this rain of heavy rain and thunderstorms that has s

amelia draper is in the storm centeth a look at what to expect. amelia? >> and, pat, ikehink the word is some. most of us are going to stay dry out there tonight, but tomorrow i'm tracking widespread showers and thunderstorms looking likely later in the day, but where it is raining, it's raining heavily a this is back toour west right now. this rain is slowly trying to move into parts of frederick county and virginia. successfully now moving into shenandoah county where it's producing very, very heavy rainfall right alongi-81. starting to see a little bit of rain as well. based on the latest track it's going to be moving into luray. we'll see that pop up there and the steady rain at 5:30 and 5:40 d winchester at 6:15 and perryville at 6:50. closer to home in the metro area, i'm seeing isolated showers popping up in montgomern and right on the border of frederick and loudoun county and up around theus damasc area. most of us stay try tonight and everybody dealing with the heat and humidity. 89 degrees right now. it's feeling like 98 across the area, and th

>> news 4's chris gordon is standing by withe impact on your electric bill, but we begin with amelia draper ithe storm center. amelia, it's sizzling out there today. >> absolutely, pat. in fact, it's still dangerously hot out there. the area remains under an excessive heat warning until 9:00 p.m. tonight, and we have another excessive heat warning already in effect tomorrow for your saturday. tomorrow it will feel hotter outside than today. check it out. here's that current heat iriex t now. just how hot it's feeling, feeling about 104 i washington, 105 in frederick, maryland, and 112 degrees ileesburg right now. here's the latest warning. everybody here in pink is under an excessive heat warning until 9:00 p.m. tonight. for feels-like temperatures until 9:00 p.m., around 100 degrees or hotter. again, we have a heat warning in effect for tomorrow and a heat ay.ch in effect for su for your evening planner, check it out. at 90 degrees right now. it still feels like 105 degrees at 7:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m. the sun is down and still feeling like 100 degrees out there, and by 11:00 p.m. it feels like

. >> we'll check in with cory smith in just a moment, but first to amelia draper. how hot is t it going get, amelia? >> we could hites 100 degre and if that's the case, it will be the first time reagan national has hit 100 since august of 2016. we think at night we'll get a little bit of the break from the heat. i just noticed the heat index in washington go up from 10:00 p.m. at 96 degrees to jump up t 99. it's actually feeling hotter out there this hour than it was last hour with the humievty ls potentially ticking up a degree. here's the current heat index across the area. this is stifling. 99 in washington. 104 in annapolis. feeling like 97 in leesburg right now. this is for 11:00 a.m. until 9:00 p.m. this is dangerous heat.ou f you can yant to stay indoors especially during this time period. 11:00 a.m. it's feeling about 110 degrees. i'm going to have much more on the heat throughout the wekend plus the storm outlook coming um full forecast. >> all rwht. e'll see you in a few minutes. thank you. >>> liftoff on the national mall. a recreation of the launch of ap

amelia draper standing by in the torm center. what are you seeing now? hearing there's maybing is out there? >> this just. in a new severe thunderstorm warning coming in right now. i was just talking about this s hrm righte. it's producing a lot of clouds around, lightning and very heavy rainfall. i'm circling it here in red.s this storm i barely moving, so not only are we talking about the potential for wind gusts at about 60 to maybe 70 miles an hour, maybe some small hail as well, but this could lead to some flooding issues. folks out driving might be dealing with a little bit of hydroplaning issues and tracking very heavy rain around fredericksburg up into parts of stafford county, and heavy rain continuing on into parts of calvert county as well. so weather questions for tonight. we have fireworks displays going off in manyca ons around the area right around 9:00 p.m. some of the displace are going to be.impacted we said it yesterday. going to say it again tonight. you need to be weather ready if you're heading out tonight. the good news is that the

storm team 4 amelia draper is working for you to explain why the fireworks failed on the d.c. side. >> here is the fireworks. they are not typically an issue. warm airt the surface and air tolder as you go up into the atmosphere, so thaair, that smoke has a place to go. what happened was warmer air was just above the surface with cooler air trapped below it and the smoke had nowhere to go and what we call a temperature aversion. why could folk smoke pile up in the district right where the fireworks were happening and virginia you got a little bit of clearing. >> so glad amelia hadan explanation for what happened. you had a good vantage point. i' i was watching from the north. m directly north of the me lincolrial. i could see everything on the east side but on the west you can see it was just smoke. they could see nothing. >> that was the first time the fireworks were launched from west potomac park. >>> president trump's crew forced crews to relocate the fireworks along the reflecting new this year was a string ofim essive military flyovers. aircraft from every military branc

let's get caught up on all of it with amelia draper. how is it looking?>> it's all about the heat and huidity out there this week. the humidity hasn't been so bad. that's changing as we speak. check our temperature trend. our average high is 89 degrees. we're running well above normal9 into the through the weekend. we could even hit 100 degrees on saturday, something we have not had happen at reagan national since august in 2016. now, starting off tomorrow morning, it's notoing to be that bad. but we warm up quickly. we're at 81 degrees right now. 7:00 a.m. we're at 74. the humidity builds throughout the day. by 11:00 a.m., we're already near 90 degrees. tomorrow it will feel like 100 when you factor in the humidity and i can't rule out some thunderstorms. i'll have more on the timing all at 11:20. >> in the meantime, let's get to a frightening story for employees at i heart radio and other businesses inside a roville business building. someone fired shots into this building. hat's led to a warning for workers to stay away from the windows along rockville

but let's begin with storm team e meteorologist amelia draper standing by in theather center. amelia. >> reporter: two hours ago the national weather service issued a heat advisory for a goodi port of the area for tomorrow. is is going to begin at 11:00 a.m. and run until 8:00 p.m. in the evenin check it out. this is in effect for southern montgomery county, fairfax, orince william county, over i prince george's county, southern maryland, and then down through stafford and king george counties as well.is this ecause it will feel like 105 degrees at times, especially in these locations, tomorrow aernoon when that heat advisory is in effect. look at how uncomfortable it is outside now at 11:00 p.m. at night. still feeling like 90 degrees in and ngton, 87 in manassas, 85 up in gaithersburg. that means we're off to a mild and muggy start tomorrow, already startinging off the day :0ar 80 degrees. 83 by 9a.m. and here's the thing. it's going to feel about five, maybe even almost ten degrees warmer whe you factor in the humidity. by 11:00 a.m. that 89 is feeling like 95. i'm going to

amelia draper is tracking the temperatures and some potential storms this week. jim.ey, doreen and we had a high today of 94 degrees. tomorrow we'll have high temperatures in the mid 90s. and right now it's balmy si out. we're at 83 degrees tomorrow morning. we're also warm 7:00 a.m., at 76 degrees. we do have plenty of sunshine out there during the morning hours. we're alreadyn the low 80s by 9:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m., a temperature of almost 90. not only hot tomorrow but humid as well. our average high now 88. tomorrow will be the hottest day through saturday. you can see here on your temperature trend.ow after tomorr the temperatures do start to decline. but i have storm chancesn the forecast just about every one of these days. i'm going to have much more on the timing and impact of those stor coming up at 11:18. >>> the city of baltimore has come out swinging against president trump's direct and continuous attacks on their co munity. city, county, and state leaders are pushing back as well as trumpargets representative elijahcu mmings. mr. trump has said the city

was because of so many of your fourth of july plans had to move weather.the let's check in with amelia draperor the explanation of what a had tonight what's in store for tomorrow. >> we were talking about this in the news room. as soon as we heard you couldn't see the fireworks, we both said 2016. >> deja vu. >> of course we hav to show you video of 2016 where you could barely see the fireworks. here's the why behind it. chk it out, on a normal night you're heading down to the national mall, seeing the fireworks go off there without a hitch right now. as we head to graphics and check out the whyehind the science, here's that normal night. there's the fireworks. aren't they beautiful? here's why they're typically not an issue. you have warm air at the surface and colder up into the atmosphere. that air and smoke has a place to go. not the case out there tonight. what happened was that warmer face as just above the s with cooler air trapped below it. so, that smoke had nowhere to go. this is what we called a temperature inversion. why could folks in virginia see the fireworks and not in d.c.? w

amelia draper joins me at 5:45. do it on the alexa app. raising went nuts right now .t questions tonight about h metro spends your money. ahead, why they spent more than half a milliononolrs dla toilet? >> boy. >> plus it's ontw day o of training camp, but the competition at qb already orhet. fns >> it's an iconic music event, and it could son be oco of our ok now at some top stories today. local health departments warning people about atubborn intestinal illness making people sick in nearly a dozen states. multiple cases of psychosporea have been confirmed in our area including more than 40 cases in maryland. today the fda confirming it has traced the source to a batch of fresh basil fromexico. health experts say wash your produce thoroughly and wash your etnds to adoi gvng tisome busy roads in montgomery county. traffic safety officials are re cing th e limitsin high pedestrian areas, so many so of the roads affectednclude bradley boulevard, wilson lane and old wee llst t .d.roawn geshington a rpp t he new limits go into effect next week

. >> let's check back with amelia draper. amelia. itoing to be the temperatur heading into the weekend. index. e heat >> not just theteerature but heat index as well.e yesterday we wre dealing with tomorrow and and saturday as well. here's a look at youry hum levels out there. check it o i think that face says it all. it's oppressive oute here. art to transition on monday butte we're still qui humid. it's not feeli comfortable atound here until tuesday. coming up 4:45 i'll let youh know ow this dangerous heat will potentially impact our air quaty tomorrow and alsowhen it will feel the host over the weekend. the ma ark gonzalez newsroom. if you're just joining us at 430, let's get you caught up with four things to know. police in prince george's county have a man in custody in connection to the murder of a transgender woman. gerardo thomas is accused of shooting zoear spes to death near eastern avenue last month. investigators say they used surveillance video of the suspect's vehicle to track him down. >> jeffrey epstein will stay inh

i talked about this as soon as i ame in with amelia draper earlier today. cloud cover arou d.c. this was around 2:00. this helped with the instability around the d.c. metro area. we did not see much sunshine at a until after 2:00 or 3:00. sunshine to the south. sunshine t s theth earlier and that helped to produce the thunderstorms and that's why wem have th outside right now. let's take a look and show you rmere the heaviest storm is. look at this sto an incredible amount of lightning right now. then another one. if you livelong prince frederick and this is route're . this is moving in toward the chesapeake. it's moving very, very slowly and dumping a lot of rain. look at this storm. look at all the intense lightning here. a i'll zoom into this areo. this is coming right toward spotsylvania and it's going to clip the city of fredericksbug. you may already be seeing some rain. most of the -- the strongest part with the strongest winds will be just to the south around spotsylvania. it's going orosser on i-59. -- i-95. more rain possible in this area. but more back toward shenando

amelia is tracking tonight's stormsand what y ou >>> and starting off at 6:30 with storm team 4, amelia draper watching more threats of storms. >> we'll settle into a pattern that doesn't want to seem to leave us. >> exactly, leon. we've had high pressure down in the southeast and that's just allowing moisture to get cooledt up from gulf and ride over that ridge of high pressure and where it rides over is right in our area. with the heat and humidity. that fires up thunderstorms and that's exactly what i'm tracking out there right now. as sus said not as intense or widespread as they were out there last night but i'm still on king some areas of rain storm team 4 radar. noteworthy areas, up around mont iomery countyto howard county and also back around the luray area and dupage county, showers moving easted a only is a to 20 miles per hour. it will fizzle out. if you're in fauquier and loudoun county we may get -- want to keep that in mutual fund in those locations until 9:00, sock tonight. just some isolate showers out there and otherwise we're 89 degrees. white had us are completely dry and a

let's start with what's going on outside right now on storm team 4 meteorologist amelia draper. even at 6:00 p.m., it's still feeling close to 100 degrees. across most of the area the mugginess has moved in and it's here to stay. check out the heat index in your neighrhood this hour feeling about 98 in washington and 99 in manassas and 2 down in quantico and 102 degrees out in leesburg right now. i heatex is when you factor in the humidity level and the air temperature currently coming in at 89 degrees. even by 7:00 p.m. it's still feeling like 98 o

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news4 pat lawson muse talked to a meteorologist amelia draper about why scenes like these may be more common around here. >> reporter: a ew jrnal shows heavy downpours are on the rise. it's a trend we have witnessed over the last three to five decade when global warm ing started to intensify. >> the earth goes through warming and cooling process and what we are seeing right now is that humans are realg contribut the amount of greenhouse gases that we are putting in the atmosphere. greenhouse gasses like carbon dioxide and methane will trap the heat on earth rather than allowing it to escape out to space. when you trap the heat, that leads to warmer temperatures. >> reporter: a report by the national climate asssment shows heavy downpours have increased by 74% in the northeast. and meteorologists say the sittion will likely get wor in our warming world. >> maybe you go back a few decades and you're still going ll have those heavy rainfa events, but when you factor in our on changing climate, the fact there is more water vapor, the water cle is super charged, what that is leading to is

will be here all afternoon, we'll bere at 4:00, 5:00 and 6:00, amelia draper will join us at 4:005: 0000. we'll be here for you all day long. >> thank you so much.'s that it for news 4 midday, we thank you for joining us. we're going to be back on the air first at 4:00 thi afternoon. we have pretty busy weatheday ahear d. ♪ >>> we're live in 5,, 3, 2, 1. >>> all those in favor of equal pay, say aye. the women's national soccer team! >> the stars of the night at the espys. they take home yet another trophy. so good to see them all glamed up. welcome to "access live." what a night for theadies. >> wha day. they were in new york for the parade. and then flew to the espys in l. and showed up in style. >> it's so cool. when i was at espn covering the

storm team 4 amelia draper is working for you, explaining weather science behind the fireworks failed on the d.c. side. >> here is the fireworks. aren't they beautiful? here is why. they are not typically an issue. warm air at the surface and air colder as you go up into the atmosphere, so that air, that smoke has a place to go. what happened was warmer air was just above the surface with cooler air trapped below it and the smoke had nowhere to go and what we call a temperature be inversion. why could folks in virginia seer the forks and not in d.c.? we had a light westerly wind coming across. so we kept seeing the smoke pile up in the district right wherfi the reworks were happening and, virginia, you got a little bit of clearing. >> a nice explanation from amelia. >> i was north of the lincoln memorial so i was able to see one side of it really well and the other site you could was filled with smoke. ifeel bad who couldn't see it. >> i do too. that was theirst time the fireworks were launched from west potomac park. >> the president's speech forced tithem to change the locaon of whe

i spoke storm team 4 meteorologist amelia draper why scenes like these may become more common around here. >> a newn studyhe journal, waterar resources rese shows heavy downpours are on the rise. it's a trend we've witnessed cades, e last 3 to 5 when global warming started to intensify. >> the earth goes through warming and cooling processes, huma are really contributing to the amount of greenhouse gases that we're putting in the atmosphere. greenuse gases like carbon dioxide and methane are going to trap the heat here on eart when you trap the heat, that leads to warmer temperatures. >> a report by the national climate assessment shows downreurs have inced by 74% in the northeast. the situation will likely get worse in our warming world. >> maybe you go back a few decades and you're still going to have thoseav he rainfall events. when you factor in our changing climate, the fact that there's more water vapor, the wt ged.cle is super ch what that's leading to is our extremes are getting more extreme. >> we invite you to search changg climates in the nbc washington app, to see how our

. >> let's start with storm team 4 meteorologist amelia draper and the latest on the storms. amelia, we knew this would pp ha, and indeed the situation is playing out right now, susan, with very heavy rain and lots of lightning in parts of the area.o of russ getting a break and some of us are seeing some light showers. those light showers right now falling down at the national mall. i want to take you first to the national mall where i circled it in red and you can see some light rain moving through. only green coloring here showing up on s orm team 4 radar. we did see very heavy rainfall there earlier including the lincoln memorial that. no longer the case.e now let's h out to the bigger picture here on the radar where i'm seeing some very heavy rain continue down into parts of prince william county, especially around the woodbridge area and into manassas and then back around i-8 is. look at this rain of heavy rain and thunderstorms that has set up pretty much around the i-81 corridor. notice most of maryland now is dry, and i think a lot of us are going to be okay for firewo

. >> amelia draper will give us an update on the tropics, but doug kammerer, we understand we could see rough weather of our own this time tomorrow. is this the stuff that's in new orleans right now? >> nothing to doh with t at all. but we are tracking a good chance for severe storms during date tomorrow. storm team 4 not in weather alert now. alert will be in weather tomorrow. we've got a cold front making its way toward us. here's the storm coming through, two, 2:00, 3 :00, watch what happens, a ton of rain, severe potential is way up during thea rnoon and tomorrow. the biggest potential will be the potential for flash flooding as well as strong winds. storm predicon center has it all in a slight risk. meaning a good chance for severe thunderstorm warnings to come out during the afternoon. heres are the biggest risks. ot will be heavy rainfall with the pntial for flash flooding. winds will be a big issue as well. hail and tornado threats much lower. down to the south. you're talking about new orleans, gulf of mexico. hedifferent set of scenario going on down t we're tracking the tropi

amelia draper will explain.st he look at the global temperature l anoms, and you can see what i want you to see here is the past five years the ate top, so over the last five years we have had the hottest temperatures globally on record. 2019 isn track to be the third warmest year ever on record ased on the temperatures that acwe've seen ss the earth so lor this year. now ally, today is the 35th day that we've hit 90 degrees or higher our yearly average is 36 on average in august. we see about ten 90-degree days so we' likely be well above average wit9 0-degree days this yea august herer area is predicted to be above normal temperature-wise so it's going to continue to be hot. now nationally june capped off the wettest year on record. our entire country has been ealing wit a lot of water, most lately and we're on track to be the third hottest year. >> amelia, we've talked about record rain as well as record tu temperares so far this year. related?e >> they really are reled, pa because when you get warmer emperat

storm team 4 amelia draper is workingyoor in exp weather science behind the fireworks failed on the d.c. side. >> here is the fireworks. they are not typally an issue. rm air at the surface and air colder as you go up into the atmosphere, so that air, that smoke has a place to go. what happened was warmer air was just above the surface with cooler air trapped below it and the smoke had nowhere to go and we call a temperature aversion. why could folk smoke pile up in why could folk in virginia see the virginia and not the folks in d.c.? we had a ght westerly wind comingkecross so we pt seeing the smoke pile up in the distri right where the fireworks were happening and, virginia, you got atle bit of clearing. >> thank you for that exanation, amelia. this wasfor the first time the fireworks were launched from west potomac park. >> the the president's speech forced them to change the location of whe the firework are normally launchedfrom. new this year was a string re impive military flyovers. aircraft from every military branch flew across the sky. president trump honored each military bra

. >> let's get an update from meteorologist amelia draper. she's in the storm center.going to be dangetous rrow, isn't it? >> dangerous tomorrow, saturday and sunday. i put the feels-likem ratures up on the map for saturday afternoon. already have an extensive heat watch in effect for the entire weekend and look at these numbers right now. not only does it feel like triple digits, guys, but it os feels c to and around 115 degrees across e entire area, so we might be under a very serious excessive heat warning saturday as well asnd sunda part of this is duebe to the oppressis. humidity les heck this out friday, saturday and sunday, feeling downrig op -- tropicalo d here. i'll have more on theweekend ant you can expect saturdayun night into sday and the relief usarriving tuesday and j how nice it will be out there. more on that in my full forecast at 6:45. >> amelia, thank you. >>> right now prince george's county, police are walking through neighborhoods and asking questions about an unsolved homicide. >> someone murdered a homeless person, and overs want to capture the

storm team 4 meteorologist amelia draper is here to explain what's going on. amole yeah, what is going on? >> well, 's allabout the jet stream and how an area of high pressure has oriented itself over europe right now. this is what the jet stream is being looing like over europe. think of the greek letter omega, and that's how the jet stream looks right now. when you get an omega block, it's really hard to move in the atmosphere, so what's happening is hot air is able to come up from north africa and europe and this air mass is just sitting here. now it's going to start to dislodge overnight tonight and then tomorrow, but hhen iteads towards the arctic over the weekend. now, this is the second intense heat wave that europe haslt d with this year. we're talking about triple-digit heat. check out the record all-time highsy. to paris france as we said 109. belgium, the netherlands and germany set all-time highs the uk, so 1 degrees. london has an average high of 7 so we're running 25 deees above normal today. climate change plays a role in this in the sense that,

. >> news4's meteorologist amelia draper is here to explain what created this strange weather system.> this was like a thundstorm here in our area where we do get the hail, if you think back to a few weeks ago in upper northwest hawashington. was big enough to didn't many cars in the area. that happened tis weekend down in mexico in gaud haar a. now, t wasn it wasn't storm, it was hail. i thiss what resident woke up to. we don't see this our area by any means. streets covered in hail. now the city there is at an elevation of about 5,000 feet, so it is higherup so as the storm system move through coupled with the higher elevation and the mountains there, it was able to produce this realy impressive convective storm system, so this is why we saw the hail, and, guys, it wasn't only hailfa ing from the skies. what we saw was also rain mixing in so when you're seeing these images, don't think that it was only hail falling. we saw the hail and rain mixing together and creating a slushy. we've all beento seven and that's what was in the streets of guadalajara sunday morning. hail piled up to

. >> that's righet >> let's g to amelia draper standing by in the weather center because the looks-likeperates and feels-like temperatures out there are just nasty. >> absolutely, leon. s itll dangerously hot out there, and this is going to be the case until 9:00 p.m. tonight. check it out. the national weather servicei uing that excessive heat warning. early this mornings you go it from a heat advisory and it's f everybody. everybody here in pink is under this excessive heat warning tonight. this is tourrow. yoan see the maps barely change. we have another excessive heat warning in effect tomorrow. this will run from 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. during this time period you want to stay indoors if possible. if outside, again, try to be in the shade and taking frequent breaks and drinking lots of water. in addition to that, if you need another excuse to stay indoors, our air quality has been determined to be poor over the weekend. so this is especially sensitive if you have heart or respirato

let's go to storm team 4 meteorologist amelia draper tow get the latest on that. this?barry may touch or some showers and thunderstorms on thursday, but it won't be a bigçó deal. we won't have anything like a tropical storm out there. again, it would just be some hit-and-miss showers and thunderstorms. right now let me get you through your evening. we're at 90 deyeargrees and as head through the evening hours, humidity levels are running low. pretty comfortable for this time of year and we'll haveg plenty f sunsntuz out there so as we head to the graphics we'll be falling into the 8í-káo@s.úf$ by 900go8 p.m. 83 degrees and 90 p.m. 79. really nice tonight, taking theo really nice ítjght for a yard a playing in the yard. make sure to enjoymy it becaust does not last. i'm tracking some dangerous heat in thesémjgn forecast, especia we head to the weekend. we'll have heat advisories and i'll have more on how to the will feel this upcomingeek and the storm chances that accompany humidity. >> thanks, amelia. >>> if you had damage from lt week's flooding today is your last d

amelia draper standing by in the storm center with more. keeping an eye on barryth headi way. >> we can see the emrants from barry impact us on thursday with a chance for showers and thunderstorms, but more so i'm tracking some dangerous heat in the forecast, something that we've not seen since august of 2016. now, currently our temperature is coming in at 90 degrees. beautiful sunshineut there and the humidity levels not that bad today. so hopefully you enjoyed it because they are going up toorrrow and after tw. the humidity is going to be oppressive through the weekend. but for the evening hours we'll find g temperaturerally in the 80s. 88 at 7:00 p.m. and by 9:00 p.mo we're to 83, dry conditions out there, clear skies. 11:00 p.m. we're at 79 degrees rond starting off tomor in the upper 60s to mid-70s, our average high is now about 89.ry notice eveay through saturday we're running above normal. we could see a heat advisory out there on wednesday, friday and saturday. i'm going to let you know how hot it feels when you factor in the humidi

. >> amelia draper, we may need a port label life support system to go out of this intense heat you'reeta lking about heat indices wednesday around 105. ove the weekend it will feel like 110 degrees. if we hit00 degrees on saturday, it hasn'tbeen this hot since august of 2016. hardto believe that it's been three years since we've fficially hit triple digits at reagan national. august 2016 is when we were last there. before we talk about the heat let's talk about theollen port today because i was kind of surprised when i saw it how everything is coming in moderate to highs. trees and weeds coming in moderate. grasses and mold spes coming in high, and as we talk about the heat and humidity moving in, check out your humity levels. i think that will face wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday and sunday says it all. it's feeling oppressive out there. right now on sorm team 4 radar we're dry and stay dry tonight and stay dry through most of the day tomorrow and by the late afternoon and evening hours, a few hit and miss showers are possible. all of this rain is what's left and this could tou

. >> you ca see it's sunny where she is, but amelia draper isac trng something more serious. >> it's pretty nasty in our lyrking lot. >> absolu wendy. we're starting to see the r continue. with that there's a severe warning for prin george's and anne arundel county until 6 sack. this is moving into severin and moving into south gait at 5:45 and moving towards london town at 5:50 and anip lays at 6:00 and cape st. clair at 6:00 p.m. as well.re he a wired look at the radar. keeping a close eye on this storm and also thunderstorms in pennsylvania potentially movine into tharea. doug and i have the timing ad doug and i have the timing ad then we are sisters. and we just moved in together. why alissa and ale chose fios. we streasooo much. a lot of times alissa is watching tv on her laptop, using her phone, also using her tablet. i really good at multitas cause i'm awesome. a little. the best internet is even better at our best price. switch now and get our fastest speeds available. plus, a free samsung chromebook on us. that's fios. >>> amazon is a greadyting a jump on prime day offering

a weather alert day so i'll be here tonight at 11:00 and we'll be here tomorrow afternoon with amelia draper tracking it all throughout the day. 89 degrees tomorrow. warm and humid. partly cloudy skies. a strongpotorm is ible tomorrow. the heat not quite there as it was today. not 95 but still 89. rather humid conditiost. you'll l feel that heat and humidity out there. the next couple of days where we'll be, 88 and 86 on friday and, yes, a chance of storms every day. the strongest will be on wednesday i think tomorrow. the most widespread. most likely on friday and then, of course, a couple of storms on thursday andaturday as well. sunday, looking dry. high temperature around 90 and ving back into the 90s as we head into the middle of next week. which also just happened to be the first week of august in this year's going way too fast. >> august actually starts on thursday, doesn't it? >> yeah. let me do the math. yes, it does. thank you very much for that. >> i don't mean to bum you out. coming faster tan you think, doug. >> way too fast. >> the grind ofni trai camp can be tough, especially

amelia draper joins us with an update on tropical storm barry in moments. i kammerer in our storm center tracking tonight's strong storms right here at home. hi, doug. >> you see it right behind me, ladies, it is really coming down again in the d.c. metro area. very have rain coming through the d.c. metro area. this time of night, rush hour, just a mess out ere. prince george's county, charles county, right along 30 a nasty situation there. down to the south around fredericksburg. over towards carroll county. severe thunderstorm warning in effect. no longer for fredericksburg, only for caeroll now and ov towards parts of southern stafford as wellas overowards king george until 6:30, 6:45, ut rather, b this storm starting to weaken a little bit so that's good news. charles county, prince george's county getting hit very, very hard here. even inside the district getting hit hard. so a rough go of things tonight for sure. you can see where some of the heaviest rain is in brandy wine, all of these areas now under a flood warning. that's aerial flood warning mea

storm team4 meteorologist amelia draper and i-team's scott macfarlane. we have a lot to unpack from the last week we just wenta through. looking forward, amelia, the heat wave that we just went through. first of all, i describe that as gross. >> yes. >> that was absolutely brutal. but there are larger impacts here. how are we stacking up? wele series of reports on climate change. where are we stacking up when we talk aboutum the nr of heat waves that we are going through now? >> what we ar seeing with heat waves is they are becoming more frequent and lastingr. longe this heat wave was 12 days, which is three days longer than your average heat wave. heat wave means we are hitting gher three or h consecutive days in a row at least. somepeople argue that the temperatures kt at reagan national is on the tarmac there. so it's not necessarily an accurate capturing of the at tempere, but it's the metric that we'veused going back in record-keeping history. as far as 90 degree days this year, we have hit 31 days at 90 or higher. so we only need six more to hit our

storm team 4 meteorologist amel draper here with the weather alert warnings for the next three days, amelia. >> yeah, absolutely, doreen and leon. the national weather service has issued a heat aisory for tomorrow your friday. it is going to begin at 11:00 a.m. in the morning and run until 9:00 at night. this is for eve. check it out. everybody here in orange is going to be under this heat advisory tomorrow. and then as we look to the weekend, we already have an excessive heat watch that will be in effect for saturday as well as sunday. these also begin at 11:00 a.m. and run until 9:00 p.m. so what that means is dring that time period, eachry anday you want to avoid or limit your time-out doors.s currently imuggy. i mean, you step out there and it feels like you get hit with a wet sponge as well. 84 degrees right now. warm so quickly tomorrow. we keep the mugginess around 85 degrees at 9:00 a.m., it is going to feel more like 90 by 11:00 a.m. 90 degrees is already feeling like 100. that heat advisory goes into wa effect and until you see how hot it will feel out there tomorrow afternoon. an

amhelia draper is here in studio with more. ameliaering today. >> oh, absolutely, jim, and the imate plays a role in the sense that obviously we've dealt with heat waves before here and in europe and across their eure these e es are getting more here's why this heat wave is happening right now. it's how the jet stream and an area of high pressure have or yefnted themselves over europe. you can see these areas and we sea this shape, omega. it's with its hot air and location the warm airs coming up from africa. this ise second heat wave europe is dealingr with this yea breaking and shatting records all across europe. record all-time highs have been set today. in france, a pair itst 109 degrees. bell jorlnal the netheds and germany, parts of the united kingdom today, warm to so 1 degrees. to give you an idea london h averages ah temperature now of 75 degreesso they are running 25 degrees above normal. again, our changing climate means that heat waves are becoming more common and more extreme. they are lasting longer as well. also cause f