Some pop-up showers and thunderstorms are doable on Saturday, primarily to the north of areas hit hardest by flash flooding lately, however there isn’t any organized menace of flash flooding right this moment as tropical moisture begins to skinny out. No flood alerts are at present in impact.
Nevertheless, one other burst of monsoonal moisture will carry a low menace (Stage 1 of 4) of flash flooding to components of the Desert Southwest Sunday into Monday.
Remoted downpours and thunderstorms may carry localized areas of flash flooding to components of far southern California and Arizona for Sunday.
For Monday, the low flood menace shifts east into components of New Mexico.
Any burn scar areas can be particularly vulnerable to harmful flash flooding which may set off particles flows and mudslides. Burned soil lowers the brink for flash flooding, which means even decrease rainfall totals can result in important flash flooding and different impacts, which unfold shortly.
Into the remainder of subsequent week, dry and quiet climate is forecasted for a lot of the Southwest.
Over the past couple of days, heavy rain and flash flooding drenched the Southwest and even turned lethal in a single occasion.
US 395 was closed resulting from flooding, on this display screen seize from a video launched by the California Freeway Patrol – Mojave, on Sept. 19, 2025.
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In Barstow, California, a 2-year-old was swept away after their household’s automotive was swept off a street and overtaken by floodwaters. The Metropolis of Barstow introduced on Friday that “After greater than 20 hours of in depth search and rescue operations, emergency responders positioned the kid’s physique.”
Flash flooding occurred in different components of the Southwest because the heaviest downpours dropped 1 to 2 inches of rain in round an hour for some spots, inflicting some roads to be washed out and something in the best way of dashing floodwaters to be swept away.
Tropical Storm Gabrielle
Tropical Storm Gabrielle continues to churn within the central Atlantic, combating off unfavorable atmospheric situations.
Gabrielle is slowly enhancing in construction late Saturday morning however continues to cope with wind shear and dry air, all situations that tropical cyclones wrestle to outlive in.
The storm is anticipated to maneuver into an space with much less wind shear and dry air, in addition to heat water, permitting it to possible grow to be a hurricane by late Sunday.
Nevertheless, it won’t carry any direct impacts to land because it stays east of Bermuda early subsequent week and ultimately turns northeast throughout the north-central Atlantic by the center of subsequent week.
If it does grow to be a hurricane, Gabrielle would grow to be the 2nd hurricane of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season. On common, the 2nd hurricane types round August 26, making this hurricane nearly a month later than usually anticipated.
Hurricane hunter flights are scheduled to fly into Gabrielle to get a greater concept of the storm’s present construction and power.
The Nationwide Hurricane Middle can also be watching a weak tropical wave positioned off the west coast of Africa because it produces some disorganized thunderstorms.
It has a 20% likelihood of improvement within the subsequent seven days because it slowly treks throughout the central Atlantic. If it does grow to be extra developed, it could possible take the identical monitor as Gabrielle, avoiding any direct impacts for land.
Tropical exercise within the Atlantic is forecasted to slowly ramp again up over the subsequent few weeks as situations progressively grow to be extra favorable for improvement.
The Atlantic hurricane season runs by way of Nov. 30.
