The Daily Weather Update from FOX Weather: Tropical activity fires up in Atlantic; South faces flood threat
Start your day with the latest weather news: Forecasters are now monitoring four tropical disturbances churning in the Atlantic while the flood threat continues in major cities across the South, including New Orleans.
Weather in America: September 5, 2024
FOX Weather has you covered with the breaking forecasts and weather news headlines for your Weather in America on Thursday, September 5, 2024. Get the latest from FOX Weather Meteorologist Britta Merwin.
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4 tropical disturbances being monitored in Atlantic
Tropical activity in the Atlantic has fired up with forecasters now keeping their eyes on four areas of disturbed weather that could continue to develop.
The National Hurricane Center said it is monitoring three areas of disturbed weather in the Atlantic Ocean while another area spins across the Caribbean on a path that could eventually bring it over Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and then the southwestern Gulf of Mexico.
Four areas being monitored in the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico.
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The Big Easy in for some big rain
Cities along the Interstate 10 corridor in the South, like New Orleans, continue to be in the bull's-eye for heavy precipitation and flash flooding as a stalled frontal boundary triggers rounds of torrential rainfall.
Flooding was reported from Florida to Texas on Wednesday, with more than 5 million people included in Flood Watches.
That threat continues on Thursday as New Orleans faces a Level 3 out of 4 risk of flooding.
FOX Weather Correspondent Robert Ray has more on the situation in the video below.
Heavy rains soak New Orleans again amid stubbornly soggy weather pattern
New Orleans has had 5 feet of rain in 2024 so far and the city will add to the tally this week as a stubborn weather pattern will bring multiple days of heavy rains, prompting flood watches. FOX Weather Correspondent Robert Ray reports from the famed Bourbon Street.
Watch: ISS astronaut captures video of meteor slicing through atmosphere
A U.S. astronaut aboard the International Space Station recently captured an incredible video of a meteor exploding through the Earth’s atmosphere high above North Africa.
Astronaut Matthew Dominick said he shared the video to some friends who said it appeared to be a bolide.
A bolide, according to NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS), is an astronomical term that’s used for "exceptionally bright meteors that are spectacular enough to be seen over a very wide area."
This animated image shows the bright green flash of a meteor entering the Earth's atmosphere above North Africa.
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