Daily Weather Update from FOX Weather: Tropical Storm Gabrielle could form in Atlantic as major cooldown looms
Top weather news for Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025: A tropical disturbance that moved off Africa over the weekend could become the next tropical depression or storm this week. Meanwhile, a blast of fall-like air is set to invade millions across the central and eastern U.S.
Weather in America: September 2, 2025
FOX Weather has you covered with the breaking forecasts and weather news headlines for your Weather in America on Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025. Get the latest from FOX Weather Meteorologist Craig Herrera.
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Tropical Storm Gabrielle could form in Atlantic this week
A tropical disturbance emerged off the western coast of Africa over the weekend and is currently located in the far eastern tropical Atlantic, south of the Cabo Verde islands. It's producing disorganized showers and thunderstorms, but it is moving into an area where environmental conditions appear to be conducive for development.
As a result, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said a tropical depression could form by the middle to end of this week as the disturbance moves west to west-northwestward across the eastern and central tropical Atlantic. If the system strengthens into a tropical storm, it will receive the name Gabrielle.
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Blast of fall-like air to bring taste of October to millions of Americans
A blast of fall-like air is set to invade much of the central and eastern U.S. later this week, bringing temperatures that will feel more like mid- to late October. The majority of Americans east of the Rockies will notice the sharp dip in temperatures, with only parts of Florida, the Atlantic coast and South Texas likely spared.
Widespread frost or freezes are possible by Thursday and Friday mornings, when a few million people could see lows plunge into the 30s and lower 40s, especially across the northern tier and in the higher elevations of the Appalachians.
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2 killed in Texas flooding when San Antonio creek floods
The bodies of two people were found Monday after a San Antonio creek flooded Sunday night.
San Antonio police said friends of the victims reported them missing. One of the bodies was later found by them and the other was found by authorities that had responded to the scene.
Watch: Houston flooding turns roads to rivers
A video recorded in Houston shows a road that was turned into a river during flash flooding on Sunday, Aug. 31, 2025.
Watch this: Geomagnetic storm triggers Northern Lights in Midwest, northern US on Labor Day
An eruption of charged material from the Sun created vivid displays of Northern Lights as far south as the Midwest, Northeast and mid-Atlantic on Labor Day.
According to NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center, "moderate" Level 2 geomagnetic storm levels were reached on Monday night.
Northern Lights dazzle millions with vibrant colors illuminating night sky
People in more than a dozen states reported seeing the Northern Lights overnight on Monday, Sept. 1, 2025.
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