The weather is getting set on cruise control over the next weekas upper level dry westerlies combine with high pressure at the surface banking in from the northeast. This pattern should stay with us through the rest of the week into the weekend while low pressure troughing along the east coast sets the tone for unsettled weather over the mid-Atlantic states. Temperatures will be seasonably warm tomorrow with slight cooling, especially at night occurring later in the week and more than likely carrying into the weekend as well. A strong cool front with significant cooling will be possible by Tuesday/Wednesday of next week (we may see 50s at night mid-late next week!). As for the tropics, the Caribbean and Western Atlantic Basin will remain active with the next trouble-maker brewing near Puerto Rico and Hispaniola. This system will move northward and stay and Atlantic system. Additional activity in this area will be probable over the next couple of weeks but the northern Gulf will be shut down due to the aforementioned westerlies. This will greatly reduce the possibility of any big storms in our part of the world (the Northern Gulf) and quite possibly for the rest of this hurricane season. This doesn’t mean we are done with hurricane/tropical season completely but the northern Gulf has cooled considerably and with the upper level westerlies blowing at a good clip through the first week or two of October, it is looking quite favorable for us at this time…and after two tropical storms and two hurricanes in a six week span we can all wait until next year for the tropical threats to return!
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