Friday, July 25, 2008

7/25 - 11am - Storm Chances Dwindling

The models are now backing off on this weekend's rain chances, meaning we'll see storms of an isolated nature, not scattered. Our best chance for these storms looks like Sunday into Monday, but even then it's not a big chance. I think the coverage area of these storms will be very limited at best. Temperatures will touch and possibly exceed 90 this weekend before dropping back to the upper 80's early next week. Today, however, will feature a high of only 87.

The Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico are fairly quiet now after the passing of Hurricane Dolly. This has been a very active July in the tropics, but things are only getting started. We're going to have to watch the West African Coast very carefully over the next couple of months. This is the area where storms coming off the African mainland go out to sea and develop into tropical storms and hurricanes, which eventually end up near North America.

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