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CBS News
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- CBS News
Maryland weather stays muggy Friday, more scattered storms
Tropical warmth and humidity continues on this Friday. Isolated to widely scattered thunderstorms will push through the area Friday afternoon and evening. Storms exit Friday night leaving us with a dry, muggy, and hot weekend. Expect partly to mostly sunny weather Friday morning with temperatures quickly climbing through the 80s. Travel conditions will be best Friday morning with dry roadways. Storms will begin to develop around lunchtime Friday and continue through early evening. Not every neighborhood will get one of these heavy storms as they will be of the hit or miss variety. The most likely timeline for storms is between noon and 8 p.m. Any storm could contain drenching downpours, gusty winds, small hail, and intense lightning. Storms shouldn't last any longer than 45 minutes to an hour in any given place that receive them. Expect another sweltering day of humidity, which means the heat index will top out between 95° and 100°. Our weekend weather is looking good! While we're expecting hot and muggy weather, we will be storm-free. Saturday will be the easier day of heat with highs climbing into the upper 80s and feels like temperatures topping out in the lower 90s. Sunday the heat will be more aggressive with highs in the lower to middle 90s and heat index values around 100°. A major pattern change will take place next week as a large trough of low pressure carves itself out across the east coast. This trough will bring us much needed heat relief while also helping keep a powerful hurricane offshore. Monday through Wednesday will not be nearly as hot with highs in the lower to middle 80s. Weak disturbances embedded in the flow will bring a daily chance of afternoon showers and storms. The greatest chance for storms looks to take place after lunchtime through early evening. Late next week looks drier, but still comfortable with highs in the lower to middle 80s. The WJZ First Alert Weather Team will continue to track tropical storm "Erin", which is expected to strengthen into a major hurricane this weekend. While the storm is not forecast to make a direct landfall, it will become a large and powerful hurricane that will bring us indirect impacts beginning this weekend and lasting through most of next week. Dangerous rip currents may develop as early as Saturday at our Delaware and Maryland Atlantic Ocean beaches. Please only swim at beaches with lifeguards on duty and close to the lifeguards. Dangerous rip currents will likely last into much of next week as "Erin" curves north and parallels the east coast. In addition to rough surf, large waves, and dangerous rip currents, significant beach erosion is possible given the intensity of the storm and the long duration of rough surf. Thankfully the trough of low pressure that brings us major heat relief will also prevent "Erin" from making a directly landfall along the United States east coast.
CBS News
an hour ago
- CBS News
Dozens of beaches in Massachusetts closed for swimming due to bacteria, toxic algae in water
It will be ideal beach day weather in Massachusetts this weekend, with sunny skies and temperatures in the 80s and 90s. But dozens of beaches across the state are closed for swimming because there is either too much bacteria in the water or toxic algae is present. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health maintains a daily online dashboard of beach closures. As of 8 a.m. Friday, there were more than 50 closures listed. The main beach at Walden Pond in Concord is closed all summer due to construction of a new bathhouse. Damon Pond Beach, Ashby (Bacterial Exceedance)Ashland Reservoir - Main Beach, Ashland (Bacterial Exceedance)Woodbury, Beverly (Bacterial Exceedance)Nutting Lake - Micozzi Beach @ North, Billerica (Bacterial Exceedance)Nutting Lake - Micozzi Beach @ South, Billerica (Bacterial Exceedance) Carson Beach @ Bathhouse, Boston (Bacterial Exceedance)Carson Beach @ L Street, Boston (Bacterial Exceedance) Freeman Lake, Chelmsford (Bacterial Exceedance and Harmful Cyanobacteria Bloom)Chicopee Beach, Chicopee (Harmful Cyanobacteria Bloom)Walden Pond - Main, Concord (Other)Sandy Beach, Danvers (Bacterial Exceedance)Moses Smith Creek, Dartmouth (Bacterial Exceedance)Centennial Grove, Essex (Harmful Cyanobacteria Bloom)Learned Pond Beach, Framingham (Bacterial Exceedance) Saxonville Beach, Framingham (Bacterial Exceedance) Chilson Beach, Franklin (Bacterial Exceedance) American Legion Park, Georgetown (Bacterial Exceedance) Seymour Pond, Harwich (Harmful Cyanobacteria Bloom) Eagle Lake, Holden (Bacterial Exceedance)Pleasure Point, Holliston (Harmful Cyanobacteria Bloom) Stoddard Park, Holliston (Harmful Cyanobacteria Bloom) Sandy Point - Plum Island @ North, Ipswich (Bacterial Exceedance)Santuit Pond @ Bryants Neck, Mashpee (Harmful Cyanobacteria Bloom) Santuit Pond @ Town Landing, Mashpee (Harmful Cyanobacteria Bloom) Nahant Beach, Nahant (Bacterial Exceedance) Sesachacha Pond, Nantucket (Bacterial Exceedance) Cochituate State Park Beach, Natick (Harmful Cyanobacteria Bloom)Memorial Beach @ Wading (Bacterial Exceedance)Crystal Lake, Newton (Harmful Cyanobacteria Bloom)Frye Pond Beach, North Andover (Bacterial Exceedance) Stevens Pond - Center, North Andover (Bacterial Exceedance) Carbuncle Pond, Oxford (Harmful Cyanobacteria Bloom) Lulu Pond Beach, Pittsfield (Bacterial Exceedance) Children's Island, Salem (Bacterial Exceedance) Ocean Avenue, Salem (Bacterial Exceedance) Willow Avenue, Salem (Bacterial Exceedance) Pearce Lake @ Breakheart Reservation, Saugus (Bacterial Exceedance) Community Center Beach, Sharon (Bacterial Exceedance) South Pond Beach, Southwick (Bacterial Exceedance) Bass Pond @ Right, Springfield (Harmful Cyanobacteria Bloom)Camp Wilder @ Right), Springfield (Bacterial Exceedance) Paddle Club @ Right, Springfield (Harmful Cyanobacteria Bloom)Beamans Pond, Templeton (Bacterial Exceedance) Pearl Hill Pond Beach, Townsend (Bacterial Exceedance) Shangri-La, Wareham (Harmful Cyanobacteria Bloom) Lakeside, Webster (Harmful Cyanobacteria Bloom) Memorial Beach, Webster (Harmful Cyanobacteria Bloom) Hampton Ponds - Kingsley Beach, Westfield (Harmful Cyanobacteria Bloom) Hamptons Pond - Lamberts Beach, Westfield (Harmful Cyanobacteria Bloom) Crow Hill Pond Beach, Westminster (Bacterial Exceedance)Wilmington Town Beach, Wilmington (Bacterial Exceedance) Bacterial exceedance can result from runoff pollution or sewage overflows after heavy rain. Swimming in water with too much bacteria can cause gastrointestinal symptoms, respiratory illness and itching. The harmful cyanobacteria blooms can lead to similar problems. The algae bloom occurs when cyanobacteria multiplies quickly, causing water to become pea soup-colored and smell bad. In Plymouth last week, beachgoers and their pets were warned to avoid several ponds because the toxic algae could make them sick. None of the beach closures are related to a rare flesh-eating bacteria that infected a swimmer at Old Silver Beach in Falmouth. Health officials there say the beach is safe for swimming as long as people make sure they do not go in the water with an exposed wound.
Bloomberg
an hour ago
- Bloomberg
Chicago Launches Flood-Warning System as Rainstorms Intensify
Nedra Sims Fears still remembers the night years ago when her family home in Chicago flooded, sparking an electrical fire. Her father woke her up and rushed her outside into the pouring rain as smoke filled the rooms of their home in the city's Chatham neighborhood. 'We could see the smoke and smell the smoke, and we literally escaped with the clothes on our back,' Sims Fears said. It was one of four floods that Sims Fears would survive throughout her adolescence. 'It's a lot for a family,' said the lifelong Chicagoan and executive director of the Greater Chatham Initiative, a community organization. 'It is just devastating.'
