Daily Weather Update from FOX Weather: Watching tropical Atlantic and Gulf as peak hurricane season approaches

Weather successful America: September 4, 2025

FOX Weather has you covered with the breaking forecasts and upwind quality headlines for your Weather successful America connected Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025. Get the latest from FOX Weather Meteorologist Britta Merwin.

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Conditions stay conducive for adjacent tropical slump successful Atlantic arsenic highest hurricane play approaches

The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is continuing to show a tropical disturbance that emerged disconnected the seashore of Africa past weekend, and forecasters are saying it volition apt go Tropical Depression Seven oregon Tropical Storm Gabrielle aboriginal this week oregon implicit the weekend.

The disturbance is presently located successful the eastbound tropical Atlantic respective 100 miles west-southwest of the Cabo Verde islands and is producing showers and thunderstorms that became somewhat amended organized Thursday morning, according to the NHC. The disturbance is moving into an country wherever biology conditions stay conducive for gradual development.

Uncontrolled wildfire threatens historical California Gold Rush community, portion of lightning-caused occurrence complex

Evacuations stay successful spot arsenic firefighters effort to get a amended grip connected a monolithic wildfire raging wrong a historical California Gold Rush assemblage that forced residents to fly their homes and question safety. 

According to the latest accusation from CAL FIRE, the 6-5 Wildfire successful Tuolumne County grew rapidly and remains highly progressive with nary containment. This occurrence is portion of a larger wildfire analyzable that has scorched much than 13,000 acres, which firefighters said was caused by lightning strikes igniting adust forest.

Gulf could creep backmost to beingness arsenic highest of hurricane play accelerated approaches

While the Gulf has been comparatively quiescent truthful acold this hurricane season, forecasts amusement that whitethorn beryllium changing arsenic the highest of the play approaches connected Sept. 10.

In the latest long-range tropical outlook from NOAA's Climate Prediction Center, parts of the Gulf and the bluish Caribbean Sea are highlighted for imaginable tropical improvement into mid-September. The FOX Forecast Center said sea-surface temperatures successful the Gulf are supra mean successful the mid- to precocious 80s, which is highly supportive of tropical development.

Watch this: 'Volnado' forms wrong Hawaii's Kilauea volcano during caller eruptive episode

Something antithetic was spotted swirling wrong the crater of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano during the astir caller eruptive occurrence connected Tuesday.

"We cognize you’ve heard of a volcano, but however astir a volnado?" the U.S. Geological Survey joked successful a station connected X. It’s a bully mode to picture what was seen, however.

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