In case you are looking for the morning web video map discussion, I've had technical problems with my laptop and it's dropping frames like mad so I can't post a video. Now I'll have to spend some time trouble shooting the problem. Also the podcast did not come out well either, so please forgive the lousy audio.
A moisture rich environment stretches from Texas to New England this morning. On the surface map, a low was moving across south-central Canada with a cold front trailing into the central plains states. A number of thunderstorm clusters were evident on radar in Kansas, Missouri, and Illinois. Shower were most numerous along the boundary between the dryer air to the northwest and the moist air to the southeast that stretched from northeast Texas into western Kentucky. Shower were moving northeast.
As JB noted, Emily has emerged into the southwest Gulf of Mexico as a Category 2 hurricane. Emily came ashore overnight on the eastern coast of the Yucatan Peninsula as a Category 4 hurricane with the eye traveling right over Cozumel, Mexico. Emily is expected to regain major hurricane status as she moves across the warm water of the southwest Gulf. Emily should make landfall in the northeast corner of Mexico in the early morning hours of Wednesday as a Category 3 hurricane.
Forecast wise it looks like we will remain stuck in a summertime pattern with daily chances of showers and thunderstorms. Temperatures are expected to climb consistently into the 90s during the upcoming week. As an upper level high gets an even firmer hold on the southeast, we should see mid and upper 90s toward the end of the week with widely scattered showers still possible.
James will be posting the vido map discussion later this afternoon, and I'll pick up the morning discussions for the rest of the week. Now to go deal with my fussy laptop! And I even got it some more memory!!
-Brian-
A moisture rich environment stretches from Texas to New England this morning. On the surface map, a low was moving across south-central Canada with a cold front trailing into the central plains states. A number of thunderstorm clusters were evident on radar in Kansas, Missouri, and Illinois. Shower were most numerous along the boundary between the dryer air to the northwest and the moist air to the southeast that stretched from northeast Texas into western Kentucky. Shower were moving northeast.
As JB noted, Emily has emerged into the southwest Gulf of Mexico as a Category 2 hurricane. Emily came ashore overnight on the eastern coast of the Yucatan Peninsula as a Category 4 hurricane with the eye traveling right over Cozumel, Mexico. Emily is expected to regain major hurricane status as she moves across the warm water of the southwest Gulf. Emily should make landfall in the northeast corner of Mexico in the early morning hours of Wednesday as a Category 3 hurricane.
Forecast wise it looks like we will remain stuck in a summertime pattern with daily chances of showers and thunderstorms. Temperatures are expected to climb consistently into the 90s during the upcoming week. As an upper level high gets an even firmer hold on the southeast, we should see mid and upper 90s toward the end of the week with widely scattered showers still possible.
James will be posting the vido map discussion later this afternoon, and I'll pick up the morning discussions for the rest of the week. Now to go deal with my fussy laptop! And I even got it some more memory!!
-Brian-