Tropical Atlantic Activity Peaks
Good morning everyone. Peak season for tropical activity is generally late August into September, and it shows this week as we have multiple areas of disturbed weather going on. Tropical Storm Rene, Tropical Storm Paulette, a strong wave coming off of Africa, and an area of disturbed weather just to our south, are the main features in our discussion.
SATELLITE
For today, that area of disturbed weather to our south is throwing back clouds into the region. That’ll help keep temps down a few notches, but we’re still looking at a muggy mid 80’s instead of 85-90. A few showers could peak in late, but we’re not expecting anything crazy. If this area develops into something tropical, it’ll be of little consequence aside from news headlines.
REGIONAL RADAR
Tomorrow, our front nears as well as it being enhanced by some of this energy hung up along the coast. We’ll see another day of muggy low to mid 80’s, socked in with clouds, and the chance of some on and off scattered showers & thunderstorms.
Clouds stick around Friday AM with the slight chance of a shower or storm, then clouds will slowly decrease to finish up the day. It’ll be cooler with highs 75-80.
LOCAL RADAR NEW YORK CITY
Your weekend continues to look like a split, with a gorgeous day in the mid 70’s on Saturday under sunny skies. Clouds increase on Sunday with the chance of a few showers and storms, and highs in the 75-80 realm.
LOCAL RADAR PHILADELPHIA
In the tropics, Rene doesn’t look like a threat to anyone aside from shipping lanes, and we continue to watch Paulette for any impact to Bermuda. As I said in previous forecasts, this pattern is typically problematic for that area. We’re also watching a strong wave coming off of Africa, but it’s too soon to discuss it. These long range models 2+ weeks out, are not reliable for predicting any impact of tropical weather along the East Coast. There are too many variables and things that could change the course of any hypothetical system, including the lack of development in the first place.
Either way, the tropics are peaking now, and we’ll be watching closely.
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