From big heat to a flood threat and then a pleasant first weekend of August, the Northeast is seeing a bit of weather potpourri in a span of just a few days.

Most of the country, including the Northeast and Northern Rockies, is expected to have a warmer-than-average August, while the West Coast cools down. And the Southeast is going to have yet another soggy month.

The massive quake shook eastern Russia and far western Alaska. Here's the latest.

Tsunami waves arrived in Hawaii and along the U.S. West Coast after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake near the Russian coast. “Remember a tsunami is not just one wave, but a series of inundating waves”, says David Snider, Tsunami Warning Coordinator at NOAA. He breaks down what to expect along the U.S. West Coast.

Watch as a colony of panicking sea lions reacts to Wednesday’s massive earthquake in eastern Russia. Antsiferov Island, located off Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula, is known as a natural habitat for the animals, which are a near-threatened species of sea lion.