The damage across Joplin and other portions of the plains and Midwest is complete. The death toll this season is the worst since 1974. The Red Cross needs our help, use the link on the upper right corner. (CNN)Low pressure is approaching southern Quebec from the Midwest tonight. It is the same system that has been devastating big portions of the US Midwest and southern plains. Since the weekend tornadoes have killed over 135 and injured thousands from Oklahoma and Arkansas into Missouri and north towards Minnesota.
This system will push a warm front over the region tomorrow with heavy rain expected across southern Quebec. As much as 50mm (2 inches) is forecast. Naturally the runoff will only add to the severe, record breaking flooding that is occurring on Lake Champlain and the Richelieu River. There is a light at the end of the forecast, much warmer and dry weather is expected by next week. This may be the last in a series of systems that has dropped hundreds of millimetres of rain on New England and Quebec over the last 6 to 8 weeks.
Smoke and haze across the Roanoke Sound in Nags Head, North Carolina. (ValleyWeather)
North Carolina: The weather here on the Outer Banks has been hot. Near record breaking temperatures in the mid 80's have been accompanied by high humidity and some smoke and haze from grass fires burning in the northeast portion of the state. Thunderstorms late yesterday crossed southeast Virginia and the tidewater area with high winds and heavy rain knocking out power and nearly sending a truck into the Chesapeake Bay of the bridge I just crossed Sunday. A storm passed near the Cape Hatteras lighthouse just south of us early this morning, but all we had thankfully was thunder and lightning.
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