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Hot Humid Tuesday Scattered Thunderstorms Isolated Severe Storms Possible

Hot Humid Tuesday Scattered Thunderstorms Isolated Severe Storms Possible

We have another very hot humid day across the area from Eastern Pennsylvania to Southern New England. Sunshine is taking highs up to the low to mid 90s this afternoon. Dew points are in the upper 60s to lower 70s which means a lot of tropical air around. Now let’s add an approaching cold front with a weak upper air trough…

Severe Weather Risks Heat Humidity Tropical Systems All In Play For The Week Ahead

Severe Weather Risks Heat Humidity Tropical Systems All In Play For The Week Ahead

A new week begins but we are in the same very warm to hot and humid air mass for today but we will add a weak short wave trough to the mix and that means some late day scattered thunderstorms. In fact the Storm Prediction Center has put the area from Northeast Virginia to Eastern Pennsylvania to Southern New…

Tropical Storm Forming South Carolina Coast Northeast Another Day Clouds To Sun

Tropical Storm Forming South Carolina Coast Northeast Another Day Clouds To Sun

it is rather remarkable that we could see the seasons second tropical storm later this morning and it isn’t even the official start of hurricane season yet. Overnight the system off the Georgia/South Carolina coast has become much better organized and we are seeing tropical storm force winds off the South Carolina…

Tropics Busy For Late May Early June

Tropics Busy For Late May Early June

The Atlantic hurricane season is off to a fast start with the first tropical storm Arthur already in the books. While there isn’t anything important going on at the moment there are a few things that are worth looking at. The first one is a weak low and trough that is over Florida and is producing quite a bit of cloud cover over Florida and the Southeast US…

Tropical Storm Warning Central Gulf Coast New Tropical Storm To Form Later Today

Tropical Storm Warning Central Gulf Coast New Tropical Storm To Form Later Today

Disturbed weather in the southwest Gulf of Mexico has become better organized today and that has prompted the National Hurricane Center to start “potential tropical cyclone” advisories for a developing low that could become a tropical depression or tropical storm later this afternoon or tonight. Tropical Storm…

Coastal Storm Remains Offshore Sunshine Inland Cloudy Windy East of NYC

Coastal Storm Remains Offshore Sunshine Inland Cloudy Windy East of NYC

Our coastal storm remains offshore this morning about 300 miles of New Jersey and about 250 or so miles south of Cape Cod. The low has been orchestrating a tight counterclockwise loop over very warm water and as a result it seems to be acquiring tropical characteristics this morning. The western edge of the clouds are lining…

Potential Tropical Cyclone Nine Just East of the Bahamas Tropical Storm Warnings Posted

Potential Tropical Cyclone Nine Just East of the Bahamas

Tropical Storm Warnings Posted

The government of the Bahamas has issued a Tropical Storm Warning for the following islands in the northwestern Bahamas the Abacos, Berry Islands, Bimini, Eleuthera, Grand Bahama Island, and NewProvidence.

The National Hurricane Center is initiating advisories on potential tropical cyclone nine just east of…

Tropical Activity May Pick Up This Weekend & Next Week

Tropical Activity May Pick Up This Weekend & Next Week

Today marks the statistical peak of the hurricane season. There is a secondary peak in early October and then a gradual decline that follows. Statistics are one of those things that work in the world of forecasting except when they don’t so you have to be careful when referencing them I throw it out there given we are seeing quiet conditions…