Here comes the sun – and after a long enough wait – the heat. A slow moderating trend will be seen as we head into next week. Expect high temperatures today to top out in the low 80s but by the time Sunday rolls around we will be in the mid 80s and into next week we will once again flirt with 90. Morning clouds will give way to plenty of sunshine during the afternoons and quite frankly after a rather cool week the weekend is shaping up beautifully. Some moisture from the remnants of Dan may attempt to make their way into the area mid week next week – but I’m not thinking they will make it to Disneyland.
So what’s going on with Tropical Storm Don – well this ones easy – he’ll stay a tropical storm it looks like by the time landfall occurs sometime tonight (Friday). Looking at the latest satellite image Don still has a sheared appearance and I can’t say he’s seen better days – because he hasn’t. Due to the very warm waters some strengthening should still be able to occur but I’m not thinking it will reach hurricane status. Plenty of rain will be seen from the system.
Elsewhere in the tropics we may have something to talk about next week when you read this on Monday as the National Hurricane Center just upgraded a wave we’re watching. Not much to talk about yet but environmental conditions appear favorable for further development so stay tuned as one model has this disturbance becoming a hurricane by next week and some of the tracks take it close enough to Florida where it bears watching.