i'll show you this video coming out of gifu prefecture, japan. residents in gifu prefecture got a taste of winter in the height of summer. local authorities set up a snowmaking machine in a national park. iturned four tons of ice into snow. famies got some relief from the 36-degree heat as they played in the powder. a very unusual combination. the children even took turns on a slide. i want that snow and the slide as well. temperatures expected on the hot side in tokyo as well as gef u prefecture. 35 is the expecd high and hot weather across most of china. but southern china, a nice relief from the heat due to heavy rain. hong kong only 24 degrees for the high today. in north america we have a disturbance which could become a tropical depression by thursday and head towards the yucatan peninsula. and the lingering showers across the southeastern corner of the u.s. rain will continue into your weekend raising the potential for flooding even further in towards the north dry weather and calm weather across the northeast. some spots of severe weather