The Monday afternoon map discussion video is on the server:
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Welcome to the dog days of summer. Our forecast will not change much over the next two weeks; and you pretty much know what we are going to say. Hot and humid, lots of morning sunshine, a few neighborhoods getting a passing afternoon storm with brief heavy rain and lots of lightning. Afternoon highs in the low 90s, maybe even mid 90s at times.
Thank goodness for the good soil moisture; the sun will be working on evaporating that moisture, meaning not as much energy to heat the ground, which in turn heats the air.
The heights at the 500 mb level will hold in the 5920-5950 meter range during the next seven days, with temperatures at that level (about 18,000 to 20,000 feet off the ground) in the -5 to -6 range (C). That means a relatively stable airmass, and afternoon storms being pretty scattered. Precipitatible water has dropped a little here, to 1.81". Still the risk of heavy rain the stronger storms, but not as much rain as last week, and once again, those storms will be widely spaced.
EMILY: The hurricane should move into the northeast Mexican coast tomorrow night most likely as a category three hurricane. I hope my friends across the Rio Grande Valley get some beneficial rain from Emily; the drought has been severe in recent years.
Elsewhere, the Atlantic basin is very quiet. A nice wave has moved off the coast of Africa this morning, but looks like we will have rather quiet weather in the tropics at least for the rest of this week.
ON THE RADIO: Wow... thanks to everyone for listening to WZZK this morning. Lots of nice e-mails; I am filling in for Johnson and Johnson from 6 until 9 am through Friday on 104.7. Nice thing about radio is that I always look good.
http://beta.abc3340.com/weather/video.hrb
Welcome to the dog days of summer. Our forecast will not change much over the next two weeks; and you pretty much know what we are going to say. Hot and humid, lots of morning sunshine, a few neighborhoods getting a passing afternoon storm with brief heavy rain and lots of lightning. Afternoon highs in the low 90s, maybe even mid 90s at times.
Thank goodness for the good soil moisture; the sun will be working on evaporating that moisture, meaning not as much energy to heat the ground, which in turn heats the air.
The heights at the 500 mb level will hold in the 5920-5950 meter range during the next seven days, with temperatures at that level (about 18,000 to 20,000 feet off the ground) in the -5 to -6 range (C). That means a relatively stable airmass, and afternoon storms being pretty scattered. Precipitatible water has dropped a little here, to 1.81". Still the risk of heavy rain the stronger storms, but not as much rain as last week, and once again, those storms will be widely spaced.
EMILY: The hurricane should move into the northeast Mexican coast tomorrow night most likely as a category three hurricane. I hope my friends across the Rio Grande Valley get some beneficial rain from Emily; the drought has been severe in recent years.
Elsewhere, the Atlantic basin is very quiet. A nice wave has moved off the coast of Africa this morning, but looks like we will have rather quiet weather in the tropics at least for the rest of this week.
ON THE RADIO: Wow... thanks to everyone for listening to WZZK this morning. Lots of nice e-mails; I am filling in for Johnson and Johnson from 6 until 9 am through Friday on 104.7. Nice thing about radio is that I always look good.