Rich Thomas Weather Network

MONDAY Update:  Radar Becomes More Active – Atlantic Moisture Increases

Good morning!  There’s a few subtle changes in our forecast for the next days, but certainly northing shocking for August.  An influx Of Atlantic moisture will make the radar a little more active today, tomorrow and Wednesday.  Scattered to numerous, random PM showers and storms. Highs near 90 through mid-week.  Perhaps middle 90s toward the end of the week.  The tropics are getting more and more interesting.  Details below. Here’s my brief video forecast discussion.

TODAY:   Sun/Cloud mix. High near 90.    Random Scattered showers to numerous showers and thunderstorms, mainly PM today. Low tonight 72.  

FUTURE RADAR:  Storms will be more numerous today.

NEXT FEW DAYS:   More clouds than sun.  Scattered to mostly PM showers and storms each day through Wednesday.  Storms thin out a bit Wednesday through Saturday.  Highs Near 90 through Tuesday. Then, low to mid 90’s by mid-week to late week.

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Here’s the 10 Day Model Blend Temperature Trend.  There are some hotter days on the horizon.

TROPICAL OUTLOOK:    

NHC:  INVEST 97-L off the African coast in the Tropical Atlantic is the most interesting feature we have thus far tracked this Hurricane Season. It almost certainly will become a Tropical Storm (Erin) and perhaps down the road a Hurricane. (90% chance of development)  Likely to become a Depression today.  Will it eventually have an impact on the United States? The major global models certainly look interesting especially in about 10 days.

The major global models certainly look interesting especially in about 10 days. Check out the member low locations on the ensembles from The US GFS, the Euro ECMWF and the Canadian CMC. Stay tuned.

PERCEID METEOR SHOWER: While the Perseid meteor shower is active from July 17 to Aug. 23, the peak is between Aug. 12 and 13 during pre-dawn hours, NASA said. It may be possible to see meteors from the shower as early as 10 p.m. though, according to NASA. Best meteor shower of the year.

Thanks for reading the blog. Today everything is normal including LIVE on the Radio of NewsTalk 93.1 WACV.  There will be another video forecast discussion and Blog Update in the 4 o’clock hours tomorrow morning.  You can always find my forecast updates hourly on the 8 station Bluewater family of stations every day of the year.

–Rich