Currently in Boston — August 8, 2023: Heavy showers Tuesday morning

The weather, currently.

An area of showers and thunderstorms is going to cross the region during the morning on Tuesday. Temperatures will be already in the lower 70s along with high humidity. This will promote some torrential rain in areas and could affect your driving. The heaviest showers should be over by 10:00 a.m. although there could be a few more thunderstorms in the afternoon in some isolated locations. The afternoon rains will not be as widespread with temperatures near 80. On Wednesday we should clear with more sunshine highs will be in the low to mid-80s for a nice beach day.

— Dave Epstein

What you need to know, currently.

After curving eastward at the last minute, Typhoon Khanun is now bearing down on the Korean Peninsula.

Parts of eastern North Korea could receive up to 500 mm (20 in) of rain in just 48 hours later this week as Khanun passes through.

There have been only 5 typhoon-strength storms to make landfall in North Korea since complete records begin in 1945. Khaun is expected to restrengthen over the next two days and traverse directly over Seoul, South Korea, while directing most of its strongest wind, storm surge, and rainfall on the eastern half of the Koreas.

Khanun will only be able to restrengthen because it will be traversing some of the most unusually warm water in the world between Japan and the Koreas, approximately 4-5°C (7-9°F) hotter than normal. That will also act to enhance the rainfall it produces.

Last week, Typhoon Doksuri brought Beijing its largest rainstorm in recorded history, and had Khanun taken a similar track, it would have greatly compounded flooding in China.

—Eric Holthaus

What you can do, currently.

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