Whew, the heat is on my friends – with some drier air pushing further south (this actually helped inhibit storm formation yesterday) – today should be another mostly dry day with plenty of sunshine. All that sunshine means that there won’t be many clouds to keep those temps down so I’m looking to get up into the upper area of the mid 90s – let’s call it 96/97 … so have that water handy in the theme parks today.
There is plenty of moisture still in the atmosphere – so there is still a chance that showers will develop – though generally a little later than normal. As you head south (if that’s your thing today), you will likely run into increased chances for showers the closer you get to Lake O.
Not much more to add today when it comes to the short term, temperatures will hover in the mid 90s for highs and the chance for thunderstorms increases as we go through the week.
Now for Emily – notice I didn’t even tease her up top. This has got to be the poorest excuse I’ve seen for a tropical system in quite some time – and anytime she tries to get her act together – something stands in her way. The shear has made it so that the storm cannot stack vertically into the atmosphere, which is keep strength down – factor in dry air screwing with the moisture the storm has and well that is a recipe for what we see here. Oh and throw in the fact that she’s about to hit some really tough terrain – it would be a wonder that she makes it past that. Though that’s exactly what the official forecast shows – after interaction with land she should turn away from the US coast (aren’t you glad you didn’t cancel that Disney trip) and then out to sea – but they still show her strengthening into a hurricane before that time … impressive but at this point I’ll believe it when I see it. I am not being a hype monger here but the storm has not taken that turn to the north yet so Florida may still feel the impacts and we’ll know more in the next day or so. That said, I’m not going to harp too much on this storm for much longer – last week at this time it really was something I might have been concerned about for vacationing families but more and more it’s becoming a non issue … so in typical weather fashion this is when the storm will likely spark up into a cat 5 … so I’ll keep watching :-).