Here's the top weather story for Aug. 25

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AccuWeather's Bernie Rayno and Ariella Scalese take a look at the top story for Aug. 25.

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00:00 the storm that caused the major

00:02 problems in the Great Lakes on

00:04 Thursday already impacting the

00:06 Northeast today over half a

00:08 million addresses are without

00:09 power this morning and in

00:11 Michigan and Ohio from severe

00:13 weather. There's also reports

00:15 of a nocturnal tornado causing

00:18 damage in Weberville, Michigan

00:20 that is south and east of

00:22 Lansing. Also our accurate

00:24 meteorologists say relief is on

00:26 the way for some after the

00:28 hottest weather of the year in

00:30 the central U.S. That heat dome

00:32 that caused the sweltering

00:33 temperatures will retreat from

00:34 the Midwest, but unfortunately

00:36 it will intensify over the

00:37 southern U.S. Again, let's take

00:39 you out live to New York City.

00:41 Some wet weather coming to New

00:43 York City here this morning and

00:45 make sure you allow yourself

00:46 some extra time to get where

00:47 you're going for your morning

00:49 commute because we have rain on

00:51 the way. I'll show you the

00:52 radar here in a second. I do

00:53 want to get into the storm

00:54 reports that we did see

00:55 yesterday afternoon evening.

00:57 Look at this band of mostly

00:59 wind reports, but again a

01:01 reported tornado south and east

01:03 of Lansing in Weberville in

01:05 Michigan last night and because

01:07 of this wind with these

01:09 thunderstorms, lots of power

01:10 outages this morning. Over 400,000

01:14 homes and businesses without

01:15 power in Michigan, 230 in Ohio,

01:18 50,000 in Pennsylvania and it's

01:20 in Pennsylvania that we find

01:21 the rain this morning. Now,

01:23 thankfully we don't have any

01:24 severe weather. This area

01:26 cluster of showers and

01:27 thunderstorms beginning the

01:28 weekend. There is a new severe

01:29 thunderstorm warning. I'll get

01:31 to that in a second. We are

01:32 looking at New York City. Here

01:34 comes the rain rain crossing the

01:36 Delaware River right now, so

01:37 we'll get that rain in the New

01:39 York City. Some downpours here

01:40 as we go through this morning.

01:42 Also, some wet weather in

01:43 Boston. Let's take you a little

01:45 farther south. The dying band

01:46 of what's mostly a little bit of

01:48 rain around Baltimore,

01:49 Washington, D.C. But right on

01:51 the edges of that heat boy, you

01:53 see this all the time. We do

01:54 have a new severe thunderstorm

01:56 warning that has just been

01:57 posted here. Let me put this on

01:59 its latest. There is the

02:00 thunderstorm cell and that

02:02 Boeing action right in here,

02:04 north and west of Charleston,

02:05 telling us that there's going to

02:07 be some damaging winds. So

02:08 that's going to be coming into

02:09 the northern part of Clay

02:10 County and also northern

02:12 Kennewick County in West

02:14 Virginia. These warnings till

02:15 630 will continue to watch this

02:18 line of thunderstorms as it

02:19 presses south and east. This is

02:22 the area to watch for severe

02:24 weather this morning, probably

02:26 staying north and east of the

02:28 Charleston area. All right, let

02:30 me show you how this is going to

02:31 work as we go through the rest

02:32 of today. That line of

02:33 thunderstorms continuing to

02:34 press south. It should weaken

02:36 mid to late morning. Mostly

02:38 rain. New York City, Boston,

02:39 Portland. Then we get a little

02:41 heating. Thunderstorms start

02:43 firing up mid to late

02:44 afternoon. There they go.

02:45 Washington, D.C. I'm

02:46 conflicted for you because

02:47 you're getting the rain this

02:49 morning. That tells me the best

02:51 chance of a severe weather will

02:52 be off to your south. We'll see

02:54 if you can get into that severe

02:55 weather, but certainly south

02:56 toward Richmond toward Virginia

02:58 Beach. Some nasty

02:59 thunderstorms later on this

03:01 afternoon and this evening.

03:03 There's that threat area. The

03:04 some means we're looking at

03:06 spotty severe weather, damaging

03:07 winds and flooding rains.

03:10 That's going to be the big

03:11 story. Once again, I don't

03:13 think we're going to see a lot

03:14 of flooding here this morning.

03:15 I think the showers and

03:16 thunderstorms are weakening,

03:17 but watch that area mid to late

03:19 afternoon. We'll see if we can

03:21 get a chance to get some

03:22 rain. We'll see if we can get

03:24 some rain mid to late

03:25 afternoon. Ariel and we'll

03:26 continue to track it. We will,

03:28 and we're talking about the

03:29 heat still because it was an

03:31 intense day in Houston

03:32 yesterday. The daily record

03:34 high temperature was broken at

03:36 109 degrees. The old record for

03:38 yesterday was 105 and 109 also

03:41 ties the hottest temperature

03:43 ever in Houston. We've hit it

03:45 back in August of 2011 and

03:47 we're tracking the same heat

03:49 wave that we were experiencing

03:50 from the end of July

03:51 throughout August 21st. We had

03:52 a few kind of break days,

03:53 meaning we weren't at 100

03:55 degrees, but now we're tracking

03:57 another extreme heat wave in

03:58 Houston. So just an absolutely

04:00 exhausting summer stretch here.

04:02 Of course, it's not just

04:03 Houston. It's not just Texas.

04:04 We're talking about over 100

04:06 million people affected by the

04:08 hot weather with excessive heat

04:09 warnings, excessive heat

04:10 watches and heat advisories,

04:12 which means more daily record

04:14 temperatures being challenged

04:15 in cities like Dallas 107,

04:17 Austin 107, Houston. You'll get

04:19 pretty close to the daily

04:20 record again for today at 102

04:22 Shreveport 104 and New Orleans

04:24 up to 98 degrees. And that's

04:26 just the air temperature. You

04:27 factor in other things like the

04:29 humidity, the sun angle for

04:30 this time of year, the wind,

04:32 whether or not we've got gusty

04:33 conditions or calmer wind to

04:34 make it even feel hotter. That

04:36 all brings you to the air

04:37 accurate, the real field

04:38 temperatures, and we are still

04:39 focusing in on an area after

04:40 the real field temperatures in

04:42 northern parts of Louisiana

04:43 throughout Arkansas 115 to 120.

04:47 Now, when we look ahead to the

04:49 weekend from north to south

04:51 here, we're going to start to

04:52 see a little bit of cooling and

04:53 lower humidity, but still a lot

04:55 of heat throughout the south

04:56 central as we head into the

04:57 weekend. So we take a city like

04:59 Wichita. You go from the 90s to

05:00 the 80s Oklahoma City from the

05:02 triple digits to the 80s, but

05:04 into San Antonio into Dallas to

05:06 Houston, it still stays

05:07 incredibly hot.

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