High pressure to our north will continue to produce an ocean flow of air around here for the next couple of days helping to keep temperatures cooler-than-normal for this time of year. It’ll be somewhat unsettled as well with an isolated shower from time-to-time through tonight and then they’ll be a chance of showers and thunderstorms from tomorrow afternoon into tomorrow night associated with an upper-level trough of low pressure.
Hurricane Erin - now a category 3 storm - will curve away from the east coast during the next couple of days partly as a result of this incoming upper-level trough and by Thursday, it’ll begin to race to the northeast towards the open waters of the North Atlantic. Despite Erin’s track well to our east, rip currents and rough surf will be a problem along coastal sections during the next few days and there can be some beach erosion and flooding at times. A second high pressure system takes control of the weather for the latter part of the week and beginning of the weekend with nice weather and comfortable temperatures expected on Friday and Saturday.
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Erin has strengthened today and is now a category 4 “major” hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 140 mph and is moving to the west-northwest at around 10 mph. Hurricane Erin will begin a turn to the northwest later today followed by a general turn to the north from Tuesday into Wednesday and then it’ll begin an acceleration on Thursday and take a sharp turn to the northeast.
Even though the center of Hurricane Erin will remain offshore as it curves away from the east coast, its strength, expansion in size, and the prolonged nature of an onshore flow of air will likely result in significant impact to the Outer Banks of North Carolina where beach and coastal damage may be extreme. Elsewhere along the east coast, rip currents and high surf are likely along many coastal sections and there is likely to be beach erosion and coastal flooding with a prolonged period of onshore flow.
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1969 was a remarkable year and will be long remembered as the year when man first walked on the moon, the Miracle Mets shocked the sports world, and the Woodstock Festival took place in upstate New York. It will also be remembered as the year when a major hurricane –Hurricane Camille – struck the United States as a category 5 storm and the second most intense tropical cyclone on record (only the 1935 Labor Day hurricane had a lower central pressure at landfall). Hurricane Camille made landfall in Mississippi and wreaked havoc from the Gulf States to as far inland as the Mid-Atlantic with widespread flooding, record rainfall, and it cost the lives of several hundreds of people along its path of destruction.
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A cold front is working its way through the region this morning and it’ll stall out across southern Virginia by tonight. It’ll turn out sharply cooler today and on Tuesday as well on the back side of the frontal system and there will be a stiff east-to-northeast wind. Meanwhile, Hurricane Erin - now a category 4 “major” storm - will stay well offshore and pass by to the east of here at mid-week. However, rip currents, rough surf, high waves, and beach erosion will be a problem along much of the eastern seaboard during the next several days. High pressure takes control of the weather for the second half of the week and provide us with continued comfortable temperatures for this time of year in the Thursday, Friday, Saturday time period.
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A cold front is working its way through the region this morning and it’ll stall out across southern Virginia by tonight. It’ll turn out sharply cooler today and on Tuesday as well on the back side of the frontal system and there will be a stiff northeast wind. Meanwhile, Hurricane Erin - now a category 4 “major” storm - will stay well offshore and pass by to the east of here at mid-week. However, rip currents, rough surf, high waves, and beach erosion will be a problem along much of the eastern seaboard during the next several days. High pressure takes control of the weather for the second half of the week and provide us with continued comfortable temperatures for this time of year in the Thursday, Friday, Saturday time period.
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Hot weather is in store for the region during the next few days with high temperatures reaching the lower 90’s this afternoon and perhaps the middle-to-upper 90’s at mid-week. A frontal system should bring some relief by the end of the week and there will be an increased chance of showers and thunderstorms.
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A cold front is working its way through the region this morning and it’ll stall out across southern Virginia by tonight. It’ll turn out sharply cooler today and on Tuesday as well on the back side of the frontal system and there will be a stiff northeast wind. Meanwhile, Hurricane Erin - now a category 4 “major” storm - will stay well offshore and pass by to the east of here at mid-week. However, rip currents, rough surf, high waves, and beach erosion will be a problem along much of the eastern seaboard during the next several days. High pressure takes control of the weather for the second half of the week and provide us with continued comfortable temperatures for this time of year in the Thursday, Friday, Saturday time period.
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It remains hot and humid from today into mid-week with afternoon highs generally in the middle 90’s. There is some relief coming by the end of the week with an increasing chance of showers and thunderstorms and highs likely confined to the 80’s for Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
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A weak front that pushed into the area on Thursday will hang around for the next few days keeping it somewhat unsettled and it’ll stay quite warm, but no sustained intense heat is in sight. While most of the time will be rain-free from today through the weekend, a shower or thunderstorm can pop up from time-to-time. Temperatures will be comfortable during the early part of next week following the passage of a cold frontal system on Sunday night.
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A weak front that pushed into the area on Thursday will hang around for the next few days keeping it somewhat unsettled and it’ll stay quite warm, but no sustained intense heat is in sight. While most of the time will be rain-free from today through the weekend, a shower or thunderstorm can pop up from time-to-time. Temperatures will be comfortable during the early part of next week following the passage of a cold frontal system on Sunday night.
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