Daily Weather Update from FOX Weather: Southeast tropical trouble looms as Florida braces for flooding rain

Weather successful America: July 2, 2025

FOX Weather has you covered with the breaking forecasts and upwind quality headlines for your Weather successful America connected Wednesday, July 2, 2025. Get the latest from FOX Weather Meteorologist Craig Herrera.

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Tropical occupation looms disconnected Southeast seashore implicit Fourth of July vacation arsenic Florida braces for flooding rain

Millions of radical successful Florida and the Southeast are keeping a adjacent oculus connected the upwind forecast that could halt outdoor and beach plans crossed the portion implicit the Fourth of July holiday weekend.

In summation to the precipitation, the National Hurricane Center expects to beryllium monitoring an country of disturbed upwind for tropical development, which volition go the main absorption for forecasters done the play and into adjacent week. Regardless of tropical development, Florida is expected to spot further flooding rainfall and thunderstorms done the foreseeable future.

Intense windstorm sweeps done Las Vegas, creating particulate tempest and knocking retired power

The archetypal large surge of monsoonal moisture crossed confederate Nevada connected Tuesday brought wide disruptions to the Las Vegas Valley, unleashing near-hurricane-force wind gusts that toppled trees, downed powerlines and contributed to a ample occurrence that killed respective animals.

The National Weather Service bureau successful Las Vegas issued the archetypal Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Clark County astatine astir 3:30 p.m. section time, alerting residents that processing tempest cells had the imaginable to origin harm to roofs, trees and different structures owed to beardown winds.

Although radar information showed constricted rainfall, the harm reported crossed the portion was linked to what meteorologists aboriginal confirmed were "virga bombs" oregon "dry microbursts." 

Video: Las Vegas particulate storm

The archetypal important surge of monsoonal moisture crossed confederate Nevada connected Tuesday led to what amounted to beryllium chaos crossed the vale arsenic near-hurricane unit upwind gusts toppled trees, damaged powerlines and was linked to astatine slightest 1 occurrence that killed respective animals.

Major Hurricane Flossie expected to rapidly weaken arsenic strategy pulls distant from Mexico

Flossie strengthened into a large hurricane (Category 3 oregon higher) connected Tuesday, but forecasters accidental the almighty tempest volition statesman to rapidly weaken connected Wednesday arsenic it continues to determination distant from southwestern Mexico.

The National Hurricane Center said maximum sustained winds wrong Flossie person accrued to 115 mph with higher gusts, and immoderate further strengthening is imaginable done Wednesday greeting earlier dependable to accelerated weakening is acceptable to statesman aboriginal connected successful the day.

See it: Storm-chasing mates becomes engaged successful beforehand of South Dakota tornado

One mates had the acquisition of a beingness implicit the weekend, erstwhile they became engaged successful beforehand of a tornado successful South Dakota.

Stormchasers Bryce Shelton and Paige Berdomas were tracking tornadoes during a terrible upwind outbreak successful the Mount Rushmore State, erstwhile they saw a beauteous twister successful the distance.

This was the infinitesimal erstwhile Shelton decided to yet popular the question.

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