Currently en República Dominicana — 8 de agosto: Más aguaceros en República Dominicana

El tiempo, currently.

Es una onda tropical que está incidiendo en República Dominicana con precipitaciones entre moderadas y fuertes, generando también descargas eléctricas y algunas ráfagas de viento.

El fenómeno atmosférico se ha combinado en las últimas 24 horas con una vaguada y con los vientos húmedos procedentes del Mar Caribe. También las temperaturas calurosas de la región caribeña han aumentado el potencial de precipitaciones significativas.

Para este martes se espera la producción de lluvias hacia el sureste sur, noreste, Cordillera Central, zona fronteriza y algunas comunidades del norte. Aunque la onda número 27 se aleje del territorio dominicano en las próximas 24 horas sus remanentes permanecerán incidiendo en gran parte del país.

— Jean Suriel

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. It’s the latest weather disaster in North Korea after a drought-filled spring prompted a food crisis, and heat waves and heavy rains plagued the authoritarian state in July.

There have been only 5 typhoon-strength storms to make landfall in North Korea since complete records begin in 1945. Khanun 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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