this the system is feeding the moisture toward the philippines as well as the indochina peninsula. more rain to come. you can see that really big patch of pink blob moving into japan, northern locations of japan, possibly see lots of rainfall in and around the weekend. but the main topic near japan is the high-pressure system dominating much of the country now and bringing real extreme heat. yesterday, temperatures soared into the high 30s, much as the western locations saw 37 degrees. tokyo saw 37.6, the hottest we have seen so far and the conditions will be prevailing. i'm afraid it's going to be really hot throughout the weekend. so, if you do have any outdoor plans, well, you may want to move it to the morning and evening hours, try to arrange things when temperatures are cooler. things are really hot across much of eastern continental asia, ulan bator reaching 30 degrees. across the americas, we have some video to show you about the severe condition t slamming the eastern seaboards. take a look at this. this is from virginia. a severe storm rolled through a campground in virgi

meanwhile also into the indochina peninsula and the monsoonal front in the philippines bringing even more rainfall. forecast for thursday, 34 in taipei. 32 in hong kong. a chance of rain and thunderstorms during the day in manila with a high of 32 degrees for thursday. i do want to bring to your attention some of the strong weather patterns taking place in europe, in central europe we saw some reports of hail and also some very strong winds because of this low pressure system that is moving through europe past germany and also one down toward italy. both of these creating some unstable weather. it looks like we'll be dealing with some of the rain pattern continuing throughout the next few days. take a look at this. berlin, zurich, many areas down into the teens with a chance for some rain, possibly even some storms all the way through friday. if you have any plans to travel, be prepared to have an umbrella handy because it will be a very wet forecast for the next few days. also let's take a look at the americas. we are watching out for this cold front that is tracking its way eastwar