we turn to our meteorologist, we know his name, jason nicholas. of our abc cleveland station, wews. e. >>> beautiful weather in the wake of what happened with arthur. now a tropical storm. boston, yesterday, an inch and a half to two inches of rain. great weather though now. the clouds are moving out. harbor fest in boston all weekend long. terrific weather there. arthur is moving out to sea. the cold waters of in the north atlantic. meanwhile, great weather in its wake. still rain showers there for portions of maine. we talked about that earlier. severe weather, mostly across the northern plains. thunderstorms across the south. we're talking the gulf coast. also through florida. comfortable heat. temperatures in the 80s and lower 90s. lower temperatures for kentucky and tennessee. the monsoon is back up and running against in the desert southwest. expect afternoon >> reporter: good morning, everyone, i'm meteorologist chris sowers with this accuweather update. looks like a fantastic weekend for the delaware valley, 83 this afternoon, 87 tomorrow, heat wave number two begins on >> ok

we turn now to jason nicholas of our cleveland affiliate, wews. he's been tracking the storm. nice to have you with us tonight. and arthur looks like the worst of it is behind us. >> no doubt about it. in fact, arthur is moving out, away from the u.s. very quickly. in fact, as it moves out, colder waters will really weaken it. behind arthur, though, interesting. cooler weather, drier weather. in fact, baltimore set a record low this morning. 55 degrees. severe weather out to the west. still this evening from bismarck to duluth, across northern minnesota. the chances there for large hail, strong winds, even a brief tornado. tomorrow, the issue is for the bigger cities south and east. green bay, milwaukee, chicago. the chances there, hail, winds. and also the potential, because of saturated grounds, for flash flooding. >> meantime, the problem out west is not enough rain. firefighters in california are having trouble keeping on top of at least eight wildfires, including this fire just outside san francisco that destroyed eight homes and damaged three others. jason, when are fire

. >> i'm going to eat it in the middle of the show so i'll toss it over to jason nicholas from wews. ou a bite maybe. >> why am i over here and not sampling some of that? how am i supposed to do the weather with the aroma of barbecue here at the studio? all right. as far as the weather weekend, so far so good the holiday weekend across many parts of country. the exception, though, across the desert southwest. take a look at this video out of tucson, arizona, yesterday, a water rescue there. more than 2 inches of rain fell north of the city. that's more than they get for the entire month just in one day and here's why. our southwest monsoon season is up and running here. you can expect afternoon showers and thunderstorms here. from salt lake city to albuquerque, phoenix over to denver. the potential there not only for strong storms but also for some flooding. meanwhile, across the north and east, drying things out nicely, another nice day. we'll start to warm things up a little bit. the humidity level, though, down, although we could touch 90 as we head into early next week. storms acr

:00 on the national geographic channel. >>> all right, time for the weather and meteorologist jason nicholasson, what do you have for us? >> hey there, ryan. good morning to you. overall a pretty good holiday weekend weatherwise across much of the country including in that, chicago, the windy city, a beautiful start to your day, a live look, gorgeous as the sun is beginning to arise. courtesy of your friends at wls-tv in chicago. today we've got the big windy city rib fest, and it'll start off dry, but you may have a little rain on the ribs as you head through the afternoon. severe weather expected from chicago, green bay, milwaukee, also many parts of iowa included there, strong winds, damaging hail, and a brief isolated tornado possible. meanwhile, out west the heat continuing to build and now sliding a little bit farther to the east. check out dodge city, kansas, 98 nearing 100, and boise, these temperatures a good 10 to 12 degrees above average. triple-digit heat possible there. we do have some showers and storms along the gulf coast and through much of florida. that could also be a few

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