Daily Weather Update from FOX Weather: Severe weather threat shifts east after storms blast Texas
Top weather news for Monday, June 9, 2025: Millions of people from the Gulf Coast to the Northeast will be on alert for severe weather on Monday after powerful storms slammed portions of Texas in the Plains on Sunday.
Weather in America: June 9, 2025
FOX Weather has you covered with the breaking forecasts and weather news headlines for your Weather in America on Monday, June 9, 2025. Get the latest from FOX Weather Meteorologist Britta Merwin.
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Texas slammed by storms producing 100-mph wind gusts, grapefruit-sized hail
Powerful thunderstorms packing hurricane-force wind gusts and large hail swept across portions of Texas and Oklahoma on Sunday, knocking out power to tens of thousands of utility customers.
NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center had warned that a potential derecho could develop and track across North Texas overnight. However, the FOX Forecast Center determined that it did not come into fruition.
Watch: Lightning flashes, thunder rumbles during severe thunderstorms in Texas
A video shared near Clarendon, Texas, shows flashes of lightning illuminating the sky and thunder rumbling during a severe thunderstorm on Sunday, June 8, 2025.
Storms topple trees, spawn possible tornadoes in mid-Atlantic
Millions of people living along the Interstate 95 corridor on the East Coast were walloped by strong to severe thunderstorms on Sunday, with cities like Washington and Baltimore facing the risk of some tornadoes.
There were numerous reports of trees being brought down from Virginia to South Carolina, and at least two possible tornadoes were reported in Virginia.
This image shows dark clouds as thunderstorms approached Corolla, North Carolina, on Sunday, June 8, 2025.
(Evan Adams via Storyful / FOX Weather)
Tropical Storm Barbara, Tropical Storm Cosme meander in Eastern Pacific
Tropical Storm Barbara is off Mexico's southern coast and is expected to become the Eastern Pacific's first hurricane on Monday.
A few hundred miles to the west of Tropical Storm Barbara, Tropical Depression Three-E became Tropical Storm Cosme on Sunday and is also forecast to intensify to near-hurricane strength this week.
Another area to watch behind those two systems now has a medium chance of developing into a tropical depression later this week or over the weekend.
This graphic shows an overview of the tropical Eastern Pacific Basin on Monday, June 9, 2025.
(FOX Weather)
Severe weather possible from Gulf Coast to Northeast on Monday
Severe weather is expected again across a large portion of the Southeast and Northeast on Monday, but the intensity will be dialed back some. NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has placed a large portion of the region in a Level 2 threat on its 5-point severe thunderstorm risk scale.
The main threats from storms that develop will be damaging wind gusts and some hail, but there is also a tornado risk in parts of the Deep South, Ohio Valley and Northeast.
This graphic shows the severe weather threat on Monday, June 9, 2025.
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Watch: Raccoon babies rescued from wood-burning stove in Colorado
On May 19, animal control officers with the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office responded to a call in Golden, Colorado, when a homeowner discovered a family of raccoons had moved into their wood-burning stove.
The stove "had become the temporary Airbnb" for the family, according to the sheriff’s office. Officers said as they opened the stove door, the mamma raccoon "ran up the chimney and onto the roof like it was her personal action movie."
Officers gently scooped up the tiny fluffballs and placed them in a quiet bush outside the home to wait for their mamma.
Animal control officers rescue 4 raccoon babies living in stove
Animal control officers helped re-home a family of five raccoon found using a wood-burning stove as an "Airbnb." The video from the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office shows the adorable rescue.
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