sapporo minus 2 for the morning low. tokyo 4, flirting with the zero-degree mark, some inland areas pushing the freezing point here on thursday admonishing. might be even seeing frost in some of the foothills around tokyo as well. let's talk about the election out here across the americas. because we have going on is really widespread precipitation expected in the central areas of the u.s. and whenever we're talking about undecided voters, maybe people that they look outside, not really determined on exactly going out and standing in line for several hours to vote in the rain, this is definitely a major impact that you could be seeing. it does look like some areas, especially from oklahoma toward chicago, maybe into the northeastern u.s., could be seeing some scattered showers here on election day, november 8th. maybe some thunderstorms down towards the south. also you do have to remember whenever we do see any severe weather, people do have to travel quite often to get to some of those polling stations. it does look lik

even some of these areas, you're looking at snowfall there in parts of hokkaido, also around the sapporo region. as that front does continue to move through, it's ushering in some cooler temperatures from the northwest. so if we take a look at the three-day forecast, sapporo, 10 on tuesday, but dropping down to 2 by wednesday. the snowfall there expected for you. tokyo, cloudy to sunny skies throughout the rest of the week, but temperatures will be going from about 20 down to 16. overnight lows by the way on wednesday and thursday will be pushing into the single digits. back towards the west, though, things are staying on the clear side. if you are in northeastern china, even over towards the korean peninsula as well, we have northerly winds coming in. beijing with a high of 10. seoul getting to 10 as well. still some scattered showers down towards the south. bangkok with a high of 34. do also want to take our attention into the southern hemisphere here at new zealand. we still have the recovery of last weekend's massive earthquake and also multiple aftershocks continuing to take place b

now, our colleague jonathan is visiting sapporo right now. and we are looking at beautiful fall foliage. yeah. very beautiful picture. thank you, jonathan. likely peak across tokyo late november in the area as well as kyoto. so let's look forward to the colorful season. now, further down towards the south, deadly floods occurred in the central portions of vietnam earlier this week. itit's the time of year wn the northeastt flow starts to cause heavy rainllll and thahat led t riouss flooding as wee go into the next several dadays, more heaeavy rain is expect f for thehe souththern h of the country. and there is a tropical depression right here. thee system willl likely head t the south of vietnam. we have e two more tropical disturbances i want to mention. this one will likely move up towards the north. this one is more of a problem. this is mary. it is a minimal tropical storm at the moment. it's packing wind of 65 kilometers per hour.. ththe system will likely stay he inside sunday. and after that it could makake s wayy towards the west. and

even sapporo, but by thursday, or actually we'll be seeing rain in higher elevations and could be seeing snowfall. i want to mention mongolia and eastern china and how about far eastern russia where this cold air is coming from. it is exceptionally chilly. this location, about 2,000 people live there in far eastern russia. a high of minus 43 there on thursday. that's the high temperature. not the low, which is around minus 50. talk about some dangerously cold weather. i'm sure people there are used to it. they have put up with this winter every year, but still, a very interesting look. taking a look at the americas, we have this complex storm system circulating in the central u.s. widespread flooding watches have been issued in mississippi and louisiana. and nine reports of tornados, some causing damage. and northwest of the low, cold air rapping in behind it. we've already been seeing upwards of 30 centimeters or a foot of snowfall around the dakotas. still an additional 20 to 30 is possible combined with winds, really reduce the visibility out there, and all that is tracking to the eas

rain into sapporo, not snow. mainly rain. look at this. tokyo, 20 degrees by monday with a average high of 16. dry conditions in kyoto. dry for the weekend, wet on monday. wrapping things up with north america. talk about dry, that's pretty much most of the united states. even a good portion of canada. rain in the pacific northwest and over into the northeastern areas dealing with more in terms of rain n and windy conditions. that's just about it. everywhere else looking at relatively dry conditions as we go through our friday. hope you have a good day wherever you are. here's your extended outlook. >>> one more story before we go. farmers are gearing up for the christmas holiday season with poinsettia flowers. shipments of the decorative plant are now peaking. in the town north tokyo, about 30 farmers are producing potted poinsettia and princettia. shipments are now on the way to buyers. the red and pink colors are especially vivid this year thanks to cool temperatures last susummer. >> translator: i hope people will give these potted flo

for example, 10 for the high in sapporo and on wednesday and tokyo 22 on tuesday. more like october. but down to 15 on wednesday. so, what a change in store for us. across the southern hemisphere it's fall and start of the big fire season. big fires are occurring in sydney. we have video from the area. hot, dry and gusty winds fielded the fire in sydney. humidity dropped to 10% and the daytime high exceeded 30 degrees. more than 100 firefighters tried to get the fire under control and water bombing planes and helicopters attempted to control the blaze. looks like dry conditions and warm weather will likely continue for the next few days, so, this is definitely that good news. sydney you'll see sunny weather persisting into thursday, at least.t. multiple systems are m moving io much o of the country, so it's going to be quite wet and windy as we go into tuesday. we will see some respite from the stormy conditions, however, it is going to be wet throughout this week. and across the northwest of the united states and western canada, a series of low pressure systems mo

specifically over to sapporo and also asa hi, we've seen over 30 centimeters of snowfall in the pasts. the main reason for this is these northwesterly winds. and you're expecting that into thursday. central and western japan over to the korean peninsula, we're seeing high pressure working its way in. that means clear skies, tokyo with a high of 16. beijing getting up to 11 as well. and you're also looking at hazy conditions and poor air quality because of that stagnant air that's sitting in over a lot of the cities. easterly flow off producing showers on shore around shanghai, something to watch out for. you might want to have an umbrella with you. some storms out across europe, any travel plans for northern europe, might see some delays. we have one low that is pushing through germany into poland. and some red-level warnings in a few locations winds about 70 kilometers per hour, heading into poland. also heavy snowfall, because this front, as it pushes east, not quite blizzard conditions, but definitely enough to cause reduced visibility out there on some of the roadways. and back t

sapporo going into the rain mix by saturday. temperatures jump up to 10 for the weekend, 8 on sunday. tokyo looking for rain on friday as that system moves through the area. then we go to nearly 20 degrees by saturday and sunday. a big warmup is in store as we go into the weekend, possibly even into the first part of the next work week. as we look at the forecast for north america, most of the united states staying relatively dry. and high pressure is driving in southerly winds into southern california. that's actually elevating temperatures into much warmer than normal conditions. we're talking about lower 30s. so definititely seeingng some v warm weather there. another low up t toward the nor is going to be moving across the eastern portions of canada. and that's going to help drive some more wintry weather in places, be on the lookout for that. ahead of that, warm temperatures into toronto, a high of 14. 13 new york. 16 chicago. then a big cooling trend is expected as a cold front moves through associated with that low pressu

as for sapporo temperatures will be 11 degrees during the weekend. down to 3 on monday. a significant cooldodown is pepected over the continent snow w can b found across parts of mongolia and northeastern china and temperatures expected to go down significantly into next week. these are the morning lows minus 25 in ulan bator. as we go into tuesday negative 32 degrees. that's about 20 degrees cooler compared to average. temperatures expected to go down significantly intoto next week. now let's go to the caribbean. we saw tremendous amounts of heavy rainfall in just 10 0 day the domiminican republic had ov 630 m millimeteters of rainfafa which is three times more than the monthly rainfall. that caused series flooding. let's go to video coming out of the city. heavy rain caused wide spread flooding in the dominican republic this week destroying dozens of homes. at least 20,000 people have evacuated along the northern coast. more than 130 small towns in the region have been cut off. the president of the country flew to some of the worst areas on tuesday inspecting the damag