Currently in the Twin Cities — July 24, 2023: Hot and dry all week.

The weather, currently.

Brace for the much advertised heat wave. Minnesota will be hot this week and largely dry, all bad news for our drought which continues to worsen.

Highs will be in the low 90s Monday and we’ll likely remain at 90°F+ through at least Friday, possibly into part of the next weekend. The peak of the heat will be Wednesday and Thursday when some models push temperatures to 100°F, a rare feat around here. There will be some isolated thunder chances but the models disagree on when and where. In this pattern storms can erupt along the edge of the heat dome at any point. The question is whether that will be northern or southern Minnesota and can anything develop.

— Sven Sundgaard

What you can do, currently.

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What you need to know, currently.

Typhoon Doksuri has rapidly strengthened over the weekend and is now approaching the Philippines with a chance at becoming a super typhoon.

Doksuri’s track has been shifting slightly south over the past day or so, increasing the threat to the northern part of Luzon in the Philippines, and diminishing the threat somewhat for Taiwan. However, if Doksuri makes landfall in Taiwan, it will be the island’s first typhoon in six years — a long streak for one of the most typhoon-prone places in the world.

Super typhoons have sustained wind speeds of at least 150 mph (241 kph) and are by far the most damaging type of typhoons. (A typhoon, hurricane, and tropical cyclone are all different regional words for the same thing.) Back in May, Super Typhoon Mawar, the 2023 season’s first super typhoon, became one of the strongest typhoons ever to strike the island of Guam.

—Eric Holthaus