robert speta there. he'll be back with more in world weather. >>> on to other stories we're following. there are only three days left before a referendum on the european union membership and rival sides are stepping up campaigning to sway undecided voters. both remain and lead camps resumed their campaigns on sunday. they had suspended them following the killing of joe cox, a member of parliament that support d staying in the e.u. prime minister david cameron also favors that. he visited a german car plant in oxford saying access to the single market is vital to british jobs. on the other side, the camp suffered a defection. a lawmaker switched sides to support former opponents because of a poster she called discriminatory. it shows refugees and my grnigr forming long lines. the camp is gaining momentum and polls show support has gone up after the killing of cox. although many voters are still undecided. in parliament monday, mps honored colleagues. white and red roses were placed. her husband and two ch

our meteorologist robert speta joins us. >> unfortunately a drastic change. weather, it will come back by the weekend, but for now take a look at the satellite picture. the heavier showers already taking place, and it is still working its way. the the low pressure area, also another low over the korean peninsula. the heaviest rain actually expected to take place, out here towards the north. you'll see as much as 100 to 250 millimeters of precipitation, so plenty of showers to go around. if you don't like the rain, though, and definitely by saturday we're going to be looking at much clearer conditions, high pressure sets in from the northwest, so for sunnier skies, even much -- and korean peninsula. and including into the to be i don't area. still heavy showers down towards southeastern china, something you want to watch out for, even towards hong kong, a high of 31, just north of that, as much as about 100 millimeters. going through your thursday and friday. just the consistency of that front, and you can see the storm system rolling across the black sea, tha

robert speta joins us with the latest weather conditions. >> yes. the rain is still ongoing. we are a heart of this rainy season. i know back on tuesday we actually had the storm blow through. you can see where that convex is now, streaming towards the east of japan, but back toward the west is another round of rainfall. you've seen in nagasaki prefecture 135 millimeters of total rainfall. needless to say, yes, we had a massive earthquake in april. even this morning we had a smaller one out here. that's making the ground quite unstable, so the landslide risk is still there. a load, and there's that extreme threat across much of kumamoto, nagasaki, and you could be see landslides here once again on wednesday, because not only the group is loose, but we have more rain on top of what we've inact the avstexcted in northern kyand to the northewe coueep to00 millimeters out there. tokyo probably going to be seeing a passing shower or two, heading into the late morning into the early morning hours, but i think the worst of it will be through the overnight heading into thursday morni

robert speta explains. >>> we saw upwards of 500 millimeters of precipitation. actually i'll show you some video out of lugen city in southern china. look at this, these cars are just being swept away. the big issue here is you had this tremendous amount of rainfall where a river burst its banks and just swept through the downtown area, even seen some images of people clinging on to roofs of cars as they went through, so this obviously rose rather quickly it's not just here, you have been seen the significant flooding, and just the entire damage report coming out of here, quite extraordinary. as far as the forecast is concerned, over the nest 72 hours, much more rainfall in the extended range possibly by the next week and week after, around the yang psi river basin, just because of the changing of the seasons out here. it's going to take some time, and this front is going to linger across this area. if you looked back towards the east, across japan, you are seeing a bit of a break from the front today. that's much for mainland japan, actually one report of 143 m

robert speta has the latest. >> i'll show you video coming out of belgium. actually at its peak, some communities had to be evacuated. trains were suspended. meanwhile, in paris, some of the worst flooding in about three decades out here. the louvre now reopened, the mona lisa brought back in as well. no damage to any of the artwork there. you can see the huge line of people lining up to get back in. that was closed for about a week because of flooding that was taken place, even submerging some areas just inside and around the museum. so definitely some welcome news for people, tourists across the area. the weather is drifting off to the east. and down through the alps, and there into northern italy, just a lading edge of a coffee which by the way, will bring some cooler temperatures as we look ahead to your weekend even extending into turkey, off to the ukraine, several reports of tornadoes out here, some heavy rainfall as well. actually some thunderstorms, a high of 22 there, in your forecast on thursday. vienna as well, but paris, a welcome sight, 23, sun

let's bring in our meteorologist robert speta. >> it looks like japan as a whole, today's weather will be a lot better than on a tuesday night. we are looking at clearer conditions. back towards the north, we did have our storm system. it's bringing in some very foul weather, actually severe wind gusts reported in northern hokkaido. that will finally get a move on. before that does happen, still of a threat of more storms, actually coming out of hokkaido on tuesday afternoon. look at the hail coming down. that's one of the things we were talking about, the potential happening here on tuesday, also they damaging winds, and there is the threat of tornadoes, especially in some of these coastal areas with the storms coming on shore. maybe behind it we might see some snow in some of the higher elevations, after it tracks off toward the east. if you look at the rainfall outlook, as we go ahead through wednesday, it does look like things will be dramatically clearing up. now, the southern japanese islands on the other hand still seeing some showers out here due to the rainy season, also bring

our meteorologist robert speta joins us now. >> well, really the big problem with this overall seasonal front out here is we're getting one burst of energy after another. right now we are seeing -- right on the heels of this by friday into saturday, we expect another round of precipitation. you can see where the showers are not actually moving across osaka, nagoya, even into the tokyo hear, but the heaviest has been to the west. it's slamming into these mitts hoar. in the past 24 hours, some of these areas have seen well over 300 millimeters, record-breaking rain totals out here. in the past several days, report of over 630 millimeters, definitely causing flooding. i do want to show you some video just in the overnight hours. much of western japan, see the heavy rainfall here and then if we look over hiroshima, actually a train derailed, the line suspended overnight. on board at that time and good news is, as i mentioned there is a short break to allow some of this water to reasset, seeing some flooding there as well. the worst has been to kyushu, specifically komomoto, and then on top

robert speta joins us with more. >> yes. actually, sunny skies definitely going do work the way in throughout the entire weekend most of japan, in fact. we have high pressure moving the way in from the west not only japan and even over towards the korean peninsula. you can see a big hole in the satellite coverage and raining down the sunny skies out there. heading in to monday. until the next storm some starts to develop down here towards the southwest and really pushes off there towards the northeast. once it gets upper level support, definitely a big rainmaker by monday and cooler temperatures so enjoy the weekend while it does last. now, the warm air over korea and japan also is producing some thunderstorms for northeastern china, something to keep in mind is that warm, moisture coming in from the south and that's feeling up the storms even around the bay individual area, thunderstorms and parts of har bin and going ahead into the saturday and something to watch out for. showers towards the south and bangkok and the rainy

our meteorologist robert speta has details. >> yes, actually the start of the hurricane season coming rather aggressively this year. this is the third named storm system of 2016. it's tropical storm colin and you can see on theimagery beings the northeast believe it or not. this is the infrared image. low clouds and the center of circulation is towards the west of this bulk of that convection. that precipitation out here and that's where all the problems are right now. you have all this myseoisture a on shore winds combined with our high tide, our spring tide taking place at this time causing all sorts of coastal problems. i'll show you video actually first coming out of gulf port, florida. look at this. this is what we're talking about here, the coastal flooding. the tide getting rose up and numerous homes being submerged. you can see this man coming through with a kayak. tropical storm warnings in place into tampa bay, florida, as well. actually the high school graduations for that city all being cancelled or at least postponed until the storm system passes but because of that flood

our meteorologist robert speta has the latest. >> the rainy season is still dominating here.ay in and day out, we've been seeing showers especially across parts of kyushu. 269 millimeters reported. if you remember back on tuesday, we had a similar report. so this is just adding up. that's why the flood threat is there. also these landslide threats. people are being warned and advised even towards the kumamoto area. as we go through the rest of wednesday and even over towards thursday. as those showers pull off toward the east towards the tokyo area, we'll be seeing a passing sprinkle or two out there. i think the worst of it is going to be towards the west, 200 millimeters still expected in okusha over the next 24 hours. friday, saturday, and sunday, it does look like we'll get a break out here, vastly improving conditions for the most part expected. still going to be on the hot and humid side. let's follow our front back towards the west, because it's not just japan. much of central and eastern china have been getting a torrential amount of prescription. this has resulted in

robert speta explains. >> yes, actually for the past week now, we have been seeing just repeated cases of heavy rainfall out here. you can see on the satellite picture right now, we still have this rotation with this area of low pressure pulling in that moisture from the gulf of mexico. and from may 27 towards june 2, you can see some of these rain totals well over 500 millimeters over total precipitation. very significant. i'll show you some images coming out of fort bend county, texas. this is a culmination of the rainfall and upstream where all this water is flowing from, it flows downstream and causes some of these rivers to flood. there has been a report of six casualties, and a military truck was flipped over in a river crossing. three people died and still people missing there, as well. so this is definitely still an ongoing situation. more rain is in the forecast by the way. we just need an additional 100 millimeters here. towards houston, under a flood advisory because of all this rain and water having to flow downstream at some point. so this is a very serious situation for c

robert speta tells us where that storm is and what to expect from it. >> we do have to remember, this is all a part of the rainy season out here. across japan we have not seen back-to-back storm systems so far this week actually two areas, one on monday and tuesday and another one back on wednesday, and now as this pulls out of eastern china, it is still rather potent, that same storm, not the tornado itself, but the same storm that produced the tornado north of shanghai is now rolling out there towards southern portions of korea. seeing showers moving into kyushu and western areas of honshu, could see 120 to 200 millimeters of precipitation as we head friday into saturday. this is definitely rather storm system. center low pulling towards the north. we're going to be seeing that strong southerly moisture coming in with it. definitely gusty winds along pacific coastline of japan here. it is going to be stretching all the way off here towards the east through the next 24 hours, even into the tokyo area, widespread showers expected out here on saturday as this pulls overhead. the good n

robert speta has more in world weather. >> yes, definitely a 180 from what we were looking at on monday. you can see the frontal area that brought the wide spread rain showers across much of western and central japan pulling towards the east and high pressure and warming temperatures pushing into the low 30s. it will be a hot and muggy one. you have a rainy season to the south providing humidity but also this is providing warmer air from the south out ahead of this storm system, which is a northeastern china still bringing some rough weather out there and actually same upper level feature supporting this. different low level and that has been really bringing some strong thunderstorms out across this area on sunday. we had large hail reported there and on monday significant airport delays in beijing. numerous flights being delayed due to these thunderstorms blowing through. that storm still going to move across the korean peninsula bringing showers as we head through tuesday but further down towards the south. the rainy season front dominating in southeastern china towards taiwan. in fac

robert speta joins us with the latest. >> yes, actually, this has been some significant flooding outcross much of this area, and what we have been seeing is basically our frontal area stretching back toward the west a cross much of southern china. you see our stationary front here on the map, and definitely along that line, some of these areas have seen upwards of about 400 to 500 millimeters over the past seven days now and that's really here concentrated around parts of guangdong, extending back toward the west there, and hunan province and also into myanmar we've been seeing heavy precipitation associated with the southwest monsoon and kind of feeding into this. i want to show you video first we have coming out of hunan province here where we have been seeing the heavy rainfall taking place actually it's left at least one person dead and at least three others missing out here, over 230,000 people have been impacted by this and water flooding streets and surging in the villages here. at least 32 people actually in guizhou provinces had to be rescued because of the swift water risin

our meteorologist robert speta joins us now. >> yes, actually. much of the area, at the very least, we are looking at cloudy, muggy conditions. there's another low coming in from the west, though. that will usher in another round of precipitation, as we look ahead to our thursday and friday, but we are talking about the rainy season. this is a seasonal thing. it does tart typically may actually officially started on may 16th back towards the southern japanese islands. over the past weekend, officially there in western and central japan, including the tokyo area, back on a sunday. that's exactly what we are seeing right now. the cloudy conditions, our stationary front, a little further down there, but we have a low developing back here towards the west just north of it. that will usher in widespread precipitation, as we look through our thursday out here across most of the country. where this is coming from, by the way, i do want to mention across southern and southeastern china, we have been seeing a heavy rainfall out here. actually one location

our meteorologist robert speta explains. >> yes. actually, much of central and western yeah pan really is a great day do get out there. we are going to be having the sunny skies thursday and friday. things cooler this morning but it should be warming up. i do want to make note that's for central and western japan. back towards the north, not so much. in fact, meteorological summer started here on wednesday, june 1st. back towards hokkaido, we saw reports of snow this morning in the higher elevations but that's mainly because of our storm system that blew through. it brought strong thunderstorms back on tuesday, even some hail was reported but it's been lingering here for so long, it's just been pulling in that cool air from the north and just ushering in some of those bitter temperatures and making for some of the white stuff there but back towards the west, the high pressure is dominating the korean peninsula, northeastern china. looking at rising temperatures out here, even into beijing and pushing into the 30-degree mark. seoul a

robert speta joins us with the latest. >> yes, let's talk about this, because every day this week we have been seeing heavier rainfall out here across parts of kyushu, extended toward shikoku somewhat but really it's just been absolutely devastating, and actually since earlier this week, back on monday, some areas in kagoshima 453 millimeters of rainfall has been reported. we've seen rainfall reports about 70 to 80 millimeters and just an hour's span and the result of that has been flooding. also there still is the landslide threat there into parts of kumamoto and also toward kagoshima in the morning hours we've been seeing showers here on thursday. i want to show you video from here on thursday morning. look at that. things are just calming down and this has been causing the plemd as already mentioned. we've seen the reports well over 50 millimeters already in just an hour span. the water is pooling up on the roadways there. the big thing is that the ground's already saturated so you're getting more rain like this. and we have more in the forecast. there's that threat of the ground

robert speta joins us with the latest. >> all we have going on, actually, is another area of low pressure that's pulling overhead. it has already brought widespread precipitation across kyushu. 176 millimeters. and in just an hour's span, a few of these location up to 50 to 60 millimeters. the result of that is still that increased chance of flooding but also landslides out here. of course, we are still recovering. i don't think the landslide threat is as heavy as we've seen last week, but still that chance of some possibility out here with the risk up to a high and maybe some extreme risk areas in parts of kumamato. we still have more rainfall in the forecast. that threat will continue from tuesday into wednesday. in addition to about 120 millimeters expected out there and also stretching back towards the east. not as heavy but still widespread showers in and kick right back in overnight into wednesday morning. yet again we're looking at more rain across tokyo will clear up by thursday into friday and warming up with the temperatures as well. now, where all of this is coming from is back