Cool refreshing air arrives and just gets reinforced and reinforced!

After a balmy last week, we are now sitting in the first in what appears to be a series of refreshing Canadian High Pressure Systems. This will mean the cool refreshing air gets reinforced every few days and highs Sunday may not reach far above 70 in many areas. There re signs that even cooler air is on the horizon later next week and the first real chill of 40's will be felt more than in just the mountains. The rain the last few days was welcome, but the deficits remain and may not be helped much during this time as the flow is less wet than what is needed. Next Chance of rain is Friday Evening.

 

In the tropics the far western Gulf of Mexico could have a tropical depression already and another near the lesser Antilles. It is possible I will have a new tropics site up near the end of the season!

 

All for now!

 

Tropical Storm Gabrielle affecting NC. Some good chances of rain and cooler weather!

The 90 degree readings will be here one more day as we continue a warmer than normal period! Temperatures will fall off this week and a few days may see temps only in the 70s and some mid 80s in the southern areas! Several rain chances this week as the cooler air arrives along a slow moving front. This will be a hit or miss rain week so it is hard to pinpoint the best chances, but they definitely increase starting Monday Night and Tuesday and another more concentrated chance on Thursday.

Gabrielle will come on shore in the Outer Banks later this morning into early afternoon. She has strengthened some this morning and may be a pretty strong 55 mph storm for some. She is going to redirect north and East pretty quickly and head out to sea. The tropics remain kind of busy, but the area should remain free of tropical threats based on the upper air wind patterns.

OF NOTE.. The strongest cold air intrusion of th season will hot the upper Midwest and the northeast with daytime temps in the 50s for the first times this year! Canada will be pretty cool and many frosts and freezes will occur up there! Winter is on the way!

Jimmy

Tropical Threat could bring needed rain and east coast Hurricane Threat!

The disturbance off the east coast does appear that it may turn into a tropical system and pose a threat to the east coast later this weekend! This could help the drought but we hope not cause severe damage! This will need to be watched!

Felix regained strgnth to Cate 5 before landfall in Honduras. Forecast for warm and dry continues all week!

Not long to post here! Just note that it will be warm and continued dry through the rest of theweek. The fire danger could really start getting real again. Be careful!

 

Felix weakened yesterday after its amazing 24 hour strengthening, but again strengthened this morning and is going to devastate parts of Honduras as it looks like it made it back to category 5 status!

 

WTNT61 KNHC 041040
TCUAT1
HURRICANE FELIX TROPICAL CYCLONE UPDATE
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL062007
640 AM AST TUE SEP 04 2007

SATELLITE IMAGERY INDICATES THAT HURRICANE FELIX HAS CONTINUED TO
STRENGTHEN...AND HAS BECOME A POTENTIALLY CATASTROPHIC CATEGORY
FIVE HURRICANE WITH MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS OF 160 MPH...260
KM/HR...JUST OFF THE COAST OF NORTHEASTERN NICARAGUA.

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FORECASTER KNABB

Dry and warm weather to continue. Felix exploded to categoiry 5 yesterday aiming for Honduras!

What a beautiful weekend! temperature were reasonable and humidity was very low. The dry weather will continue which is not the best for our drought. Temperature will range in the mid and upper 80s to some lower 90s.

 

Felix was amazing! It strengthened by 85 mph winds yesterday becoming a serious Category 5 storm with 165 mph winds!! Check the latest information on the Tropical page!