The Daily Weather Update from FOX Weather: Tropics heating up as severe weather looms for millions
Top weather news for Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024: Forecasters continue to monitor a tropical disturbance in the Caribbean that has a medium chance of developing while millions of Americans in the central U.S. brace for severe weather that could impact Halloween plans.
Weather in America: October 29, 2024
FOX Weather has you covered with the breaking forecasts and weather news headlines for your Weather in America on Tuesday, October 29, 2024. Get the latest from FOX Weather Meteorologist Britta Merwin.
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Tropical threat looms in Caribbean
The Atlantic Basin's next tropical threat continues to be tracked by the National Hurricane Center and has a medium chance of developing into a tropical depression by the end of the week.
The FOX Forecast Center believes those odds could increase further as the final month of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season approaches.
A tropical disturbance in the Caribbean Sea has a medium chance of developing over the next seven days.
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Severe weather threatens Halloween plans for millions in central US
A multi-day severe weather threat kicks off this week heading into Halloween, bringing with it the potential for damaging winds, hail and severe thunderstorms for the Central U.S.
A cold front will push across the centra and southern Plains this week, with warmer temperatures expected along the front, creating the potential for severe weather. The biggest potential for extreme weather is set to unfold Wednesday before the front marches into the Northeast by Halloween night.
This graphic shows the severe weather threat on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024.
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Wildfire scorches more than 12,000 acres inside Oklahoma wildlife refuge
Forecasters with the National Weather Service office in Norman, Oklahoma, has warned about dangerous fire weather conditions, including the area around the Rush Fire, which has burned through more than 12,000 acres in the Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge.
The entire area, which is about an hour and a half south of Oklahoma City, was closed to the public on Saturday to allow fire teams and other first responders time to work on containing and extinguishing the blaze.
Rush Fire scorches Wichita Mountains in Oklahoma. (Comanche County/Lawton Emergency Management)
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Watch: US Coast Guard saves father, sons clinging to capsized boat in Hawaii
A man and his two children were saved from the Pacific Ocean in Hawaii over the weekend. The rescue took place Saturday after the man made a mayday call saying his boat had capsized.
The Honolulu sector of the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) heard the call and sent helicopter and airplane crews to search the area. Almost five hours later, the helicopter crew found the overturned boat, with the man and his two sons clinging to the hull. They weren't wearing life jackets, the Coast Guard said.
Watch: Coast Guard saves father and sons trapped on capsized boat in Hawaii
The United States Coast Guard rescued a man and his two sons on Saturday after their boat capsized in the ocean off the island of Lanai. Video from the rescue shows the man and children clinging to the boat's hull.
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