Good Wednesday, everyone. We are closing the book on the month of August with a VERY nice weather day taking shape and that nice weather rolls into the first day or two of September. Once into the Labor Day Weekend, changes are set to take place with the increasing potential for a few showers and storms.
Let’s kick this party off with what’s happening out there today. Temps are fine with 50s to start and upper 70s to low 80s to end. Humidity levels are low with a nice breeze from the northwest and lots of sunshine.
Thursday is equally as nice with a little more cloud cover into the afternoon. Those clouds thicken a little more on Friday as moisture streams in from the southwest. I can’t totally rule out an isolated shower or storm going up, but most will be dry.
The threat for scattered showers and storms will kick in on Saturday and increase from there through Labor Day and early next week…
GFS
EURO
This happens as the models go back toward a trough in the east. Here’s the EURO…
That’s backed up by the EURO Ensembles and the Control Run…
Much of what happens over the next week or so may depend on what happens in the tropics. The National Hurricane Center continues to watch a few systems out in the Atlantic…
It’s been an incredibly quiet hurricane season in the Atlantic basin. If we don’t get a named storm today, it will mark the first time since 1961 that an August failed to produce a named storm.
Have a great day and take care.
Louisville Mets are predicting ragweed pollen will be entrenched over the next several days.
What a disappointment, I will have to limit my time outside during this stretch of almost perfect weather.
In my younger years I went fishing a lot not knowing I was allergic to ragweed pollen and when I had my first attack I had to return home with my eyes swollen shut. Went to an Allergist who gave me monthly injections of cortisone which help my miserable condition. Now that I have made it to old age I became immune to the pollen but now I have other allergies. Go figure ? You can enjoy the prefect late Summer weather outside at mid-day when the pollen count is the lowest. Feel better.
Thanks Chris, The stronger and steeper the ridge is out West the deeper the trough is in the East which is indicated on yesterday’s European weather model. Looks like late Fall or early Winter ensemble ?
In the Tropics the ” 12z of the GFS continues to take Tropical System 91L Northwestward to between 65 West and 70 West with development to a Tropical Cyclone followed by turning out into the Atlantic away from any land.
Thanks Chris, The stronger and steeper the ridge is out West the deeper the trough is in the East which is indicated on yesterday’s European weather model. Looks like late Fall or early Winter ensemble ?
In the Tropics the ” 12z of the GFS continues to take Tropical System 91L Northwestward to between 65 West and 70 West with development to a Tropical Cyclone followed by turning out into the Atlantic away from any land.
Sorry for the double click on the above post.
Actually believe 1997 was the last time August had No named Hurricanes.