Overview

• The Met Office has issued yellow thunderstorm warnings for Scotland and Northern Ireland and extended heat-health alerts into next week as it forecasts a new multi-day heat surge in southern and eastern England beginning Friday.
• Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology has issued a severe warning for Perth and surrounding southwest regions, forecasting heavy rain and north-westerly winds up to 100 km/h under a fast-moving cold front and signalling a shift to a wetter season with a developing negative Indian Ocean Dipole.
• Tropical Storm Erin is strengthening well offshore in the Atlantic and is expected to send larger swells toward Mid-Atlantic beaches, raising hazardous rip-current risks along Maryland and Delaware shores this weekend.
• A tropical disturbance moving into the Gulf of Mexico may bring enhanced moisture and downpours to the Houston metro area by Friday and Saturday and could briefly develop into a tropical depression before moving into South Texas.
• NOAA’s National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center have placed parts of the U.S. Northeast and Mid-Atlantic under marginal and level-1 severe thunderstorm risks today, with forecasters warning of possible damaging wind gusts and small hail.