A strong cool front begins to approach the area later today and then passes through later Wednesday. This frontal system will renew the threat of showers and thunderstorms around here for tonight and Wednesday and, once again, any rain that falls can be on the heavy side and any storm that forms can reach strong-to-severe levels. High pressure will follow the mid-week frontal passage and will generate beautiful weather here for the period of Thursday through Monday. Temperatures in this late week/weekend stretch will generally hold in the 70’s for afternoon highs and 50’s for overnight lows…quite comfortable for the middle of September.
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The climatological peak of the Atlantic Basin tropical season is right around this time of year and it is certainly living up to its billing. Lee is a category 3 “major’ hurricane today and continues to move slowly on a west-northwest track over very warm waters of the tropical Atlantic Ocean. It will take a turn to the north later in the week as it becomes increasingly influenced by an upper-level trough that will build over the central and eastern states. Lee will likely have a significant impact on eastern New England this weekend with heavy rains and strong winds as it pushes towards Maine or Nova Scotia as a tropical storm or “post-tropical” system.
Elsewhere in the Atlantic Basin, Tropical Storm Margot may indeed reach hurricane status in the near-term; however, its future looks rather harmless as it likely stays over the open waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Another tropical system has just pushed off the west coast of Africa and is now located over the far eastern Atlantic. It is likely that this system intensifies in coming days and may ultimately present a threat to the US east coast sometime later this month.
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The week begins with a nearby frontal system and the result will be a continuing chance of showers and thunderstorms in the Mid-Atlantic region and any rain that falls can be heavy at times. An even stronger cool front approaches the area later tomorrow and passes through on Wednesday and this system will renew the threat of showers and thunderstorms in the NYC metro region. High pressure will follow the mid-week frontal passage and will generate beautiful weather for Thursday, Friday and Saturday. On the tropical scene, Lee is a category 3 “major” hurricane this morning as it very slowly churns across the tropical Atlantic. It will begin to make a northward turn later in the week and could have an impact on eastern New England by the weekend…still being closely monitored.
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The week begins with a nearby frontal system and the result will be a continuing chance of showers and thunderstorms in the Mid-Atlantic region and any rain that falls can be heavy at times. An even stronger cool front approaches the area later tomorrow and passes through on Wednesday and this system will renew the threat of showers and thunderstorms in the DC metro region. High pressure will follow the mid-week frontal passage and will generate beautiful weather for Thursday, Friday and Saturday. On the tropical scene, Lee is a category 3 “major” hurricane this morning as it very slowly churns across the tropical Atlantic. It will begin to make a northward turn later in the week and could have an impact on eastern New England by the weekend…still being closely monitored.
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The week begins with a nearby frontal system and the result will be a continuing chance of showers and thunderstorms in the Mid-Atlantic region and any rain that falls can be heavy at times. An even stronger cool front approaches the area later tomorrow and passes through on Wednesday and this system will renew the threat of showers and thunderstorms in the Philly metro region. High pressure will follow the mid-week frontal passage and will generate beautiful weather for Thursday, Friday and Saturday. On the tropical scene, Lee is a category 3 “major” hurricane this morning as it very slowly churns across the tropical Atlantic. It will begin to make a northward turn later in the week and could have an impact on eastern New England by the weekend…still being closely monitored.
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The week starts off quite warm with today’s high temperatures well up in the 80’s, but a frontal passage by mid-week ushers in quite comfortable conditions for the second half of the week. That frontal passage will renew the chance of showers and thunderstorms on Tuesday and Tuesday night, but the second half of the week should be rain-free and quite pleasant for September.
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At the end of the 19th century, America was beaming with confidence and feeling bigger and stronger than ever before. The city of Galveston, Texas was booming with a population of 37,000 residents on the east end of Galveston Island which runs about thirty miles in length and anywhere from one and a half to three miles in width. Its position on the harbor of Galveston Bay along the Gulf of Mexico made it the center of trade and the biggest city in Texas in the year 1900. A quarter of a century earlier, a nearby town was destroyed by a powerful hurricane and this object lesson was heeded by many Galveston residents and talks of a seawall to protect the city were quite prevalent. However, no seawall was built and sand dunes along the shore were actually cut down to fill low areas in the city, removing what little barrier there was to the Gulf of Mexico. This proved to be a fatal mistake for the city of Galveston in what nobody could foresee happening to this magical place that seemed destined to become the New York of the Gulf of Mexico.
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A frontal system will stall out in the nearby vicinity today and the result will be a continuing threat of showers and thunderstorms that’ll last through the upcoming weekend and into early next week. Any rain that falls in this unsettled weather pattern can be heavy at times and any thunderstorm can be severe. In terms of temperatures, they’ll gradually drop off during the next few days with highs in the lower 80’s likely by Sunday and Monday. On the tropical scene, Hurricane Lee strengthened rapidly late yesterday all the way into a “category 5” classification…will continue to be closely monitored over the next several days.
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A frontal system will stall out in the nearby vicinity today and the result will be a continuing threat of showers and thunderstorms that’ll last through the upcoming weekend and into early next week. Any rain that falls in this unsettled weather pattern can be heavy at times and any thunderstorm can be severe. In terms of temperatures, they’ll gradually drop off during the next few days with highs in the lower 80’s likely by Sunday and Monday. On the tropical scene, Hurricane Lee strengthened rapidly late yesterday all the way into a “category 5” classification…will continue to be closely monitored over the next several days.
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A cool front pass through the region on Thursday and has paved the way for a stretch of decent weather across northern Alabama. In fact, high temperatures are likely to be confined to the middle 80’s in general during the next several days which is not bad at all for the early part of September.
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