for friday we show 43 degrees in manila and 45 in bangkok. 27 for taipei as well as shanghai. tokyo is going to be looking much warmer, too. 28 degrees for your high today, so that's a big jump from yesterday. now, to the outlook for those quake-affected areas, we'll show the chance of precipitation on friday for these couple of cities, but that's going to be in the morning hours. it should let up by now. hachinohe is the exception. there's a slight chance of showers. on saturday things dry out nicely although there's heavy cloud cover. gusty conditions continue into saturday as well. dry skies for both days here, and in mito nice and warm here, 25 degrees for both friday and saturday. some very warm conditions to look forward to. all right. and in towards north america, still the core of the really active systems remain in the mid-section of the united states. we've got a couple disturbances. still looking very, very active. lots of warm air coming in from the gulf, and then we have a lot of cool air behind this low. so that's all mixing and producing that stormy weather, and

as well as landslides risks. highs on tuesday, we'll see a lot of warmth moving into shanghai, 34 degrees in your forecast high today. hot conditions. 33 in taipei. getting up to 26 in beijing and 28 degrees expected in tokyo today. it's going to be a humid, sticky day. as for quake affected areas, today, looks like a few showers will impact miyako for the morning hours. then it should look drier here. that will continue on into wednesday. more sunshine for you to come. from sendai, into onihama, showers throughout, into about the midday hours. then after that, it should look a lot drier. for mito, the rain won't start up until the afternoon and you may see thunder showers along with that. that will continue into wednesday morning for you here. and getting a look at europe now. still looking at the system swirling just off in atlantic here. still bringing winds and rain to the british isles. also this frontal boundary just over western europe will produce some scattered showers for areas like france and the low countries, parts of western germany as well. another unsettled area, the black sea region as well as the southern end of the balgen peninsula, southern italy, too, scattered showers. heavy downpours and thunderstorms are going to be possible in p