Hello everyone- happy Thursday!
Today is going to be a highly pleasant day with highs in the 80s but with exceedingly low humidity, so it will likely feel very nice for much of the day today. Sadly, the temps will increase tomorrow as a southerly breeze develops, and it will therefore be exceedingly hot, humid, and horrible tomorrow. By Saturday, a strong cold front is going to cause some very nasty thunderstorms on Saturday, some of which could be very strong to severe with large hail. For next week, we finally get our typical fallish early September weather with lows in the 50s and highs in the mid-70s. An offseason nor'easter threatens on Wednesday, and it (for now) does not appear to have too many impacts, but it isn't nearly certain, so that is something worth watching as we move forward.
In the Atlantic- A strong tropical wave near the Cape Verde Islands is probably going to develop over the next several days as it moves towards the Lesser Antillies. For now there is only a 40% chance of development, but I expect that to increase. The next name on the list is Edouard.
In the Pacific- Hurricane Norbert, located 165 miles south of the Baja Peninsula, has 80 mph sustained winds and is moving northwest. After a few days, it will gradually weaken...and then do something extremely rare and hit south California as an extratropical cyclone. This probably only happens once every forty years or so, and it is something very fun to watch!
Today in weather history- September 4, 2007- Hurricane Felix makes landfall in Nicaragua as a category 5 hurricane, marking the first time that two category 5 hurricanes made landfall at that intensity in the same season (the other one that year was Hurricane Dean). Intriguingly, today therefore marks 7 years to the day since the last category 5 hurricane anywhere in the Atlantic. The closest we've come was 2010's Hurricane Igor, which had 155mph wind, but it needs to be >156 to be a cat 5.
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