The Tuesday morning map discussion video is on the server:
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Dennis brought air up into Alabama from the Caribbean, and it will stay in place all week as our old friend slowly fades away up north around Indianapolis. High dewpoints and spokes rotating around Dennis will means scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms on a daily basis through Friday. Each day will feature more clouds than sun, and temperatures will be a little below normal due to the clouds and showers. And, I should mention in this kind of pure tropical air a shower is possible at just about anytime, not just during the afternoon and evening hours.
Heights and temperatures aloft begin to rise late this weekend, meaning the showers should thin out a bit by Sunday and Monday of next week. But, a fairly strong upper trough for summer will swing a surface boundary down this way toward the middle of next week, which will probably enhance the formation of showers and storms again.
EMILY: I am really thankful we can pronounce these names so far this year. Latest track from NHC puts Emily in a position very close to the southern coast of eastern Cuba by just after midnight Saturday night. This is very close to where Dennis moved onto the Cuban coast. The GFDL ramps up Emily to a 131 knot hurricane (151 mph) before it interacts with the mountains.
I am sure there was some upwelling from Dennis with slightly lower SSTs, which might prevent Emily from becoming a major hurricane, but that is not certain. I do believe Emily will be a Gulf of Mexico storm. Will the system move into the Mexican or Texas coast? Or, be a threat to the central Gulf coast again? The latitude will be the key; if the thing gets far enough north it might be influenced by the big mid-latitude trough forecast to be north of us by the middle of next week. Is it simply too early to tell. We will be waiting and watching.
http://beta.abc3340.com/weather/video.hrb
Dennis brought air up into Alabama from the Caribbean, and it will stay in place all week as our old friend slowly fades away up north around Indianapolis. High dewpoints and spokes rotating around Dennis will means scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms on a daily basis through Friday. Each day will feature more clouds than sun, and temperatures will be a little below normal due to the clouds and showers. And, I should mention in this kind of pure tropical air a shower is possible at just about anytime, not just during the afternoon and evening hours.
Heights and temperatures aloft begin to rise late this weekend, meaning the showers should thin out a bit by Sunday and Monday of next week. But, a fairly strong upper trough for summer will swing a surface boundary down this way toward the middle of next week, which will probably enhance the formation of showers and storms again.
EMILY: I am really thankful we can pronounce these names so far this year. Latest track from NHC puts Emily in a position very close to the southern coast of eastern Cuba by just after midnight Saturday night. This is very close to where Dennis moved onto the Cuban coast. The GFDL ramps up Emily to a 131 knot hurricane (151 mph) before it interacts with the mountains.
I am sure there was some upwelling from Dennis with slightly lower SSTs, which might prevent Emily from becoming a major hurricane, but that is not certain. I do believe Emily will be a Gulf of Mexico storm. Will the system move into the Mexican or Texas coast? Or, be a threat to the central Gulf coast again? The latitude will be the key; if the thing gets far enough north it might be influenced by the big mid-latitude trough forecast to be north of us by the middle of next week. Is it simply too early to tell. We will be waiting and watching.
on July 12, 2005, 6:54 am
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