Thursday Post

Getting back in the saddle now after a few days off and traveling out of town. I have been working on lots of stuff around here behind the scenes over the past couple of weeks getting everything ready to go for our new Triad weather office. Somewhat amazing the problems you can hit getting all of this expensive equiptment up and running properly for a new area.

At any rate, rather hot and dry around here through the weekend. Look for low to mid 90s for highs Friday through Sunday. Our next cold front will slowly slide through here Tuesday and Wednesday and will bring us scattered showers and storms Monday through Wednesday.

Tropics...
The tropics are certainly heating up. First of all, Tropical Storm Debby simply appears to be a "fish storm"....meaning, in all likelihood, the system will recurve over the open waters of the Atlantic, threatening only the north Atlantic shipping lanes. However, Deppy could become a hurricane by the weekend.

Of more interest is the tropical wave now moving into the Windwards. The system looks healthy, and a recon plance will head in there this afternoon to see if we have a new tropical depression or storm.

It appears all systems are 'go' for strengthening of this, and it looks bound for the Gulf of Mexico. In fact, check out this from the 0z run today of the Canadian model...

http://bricker.met.psu.edu/~arnottj/cgi-bin/cmctc2.cgi?time=2006082400&field=Sea+Level+Pressure&hour=144hr

This system will likely rather quickly become 'Ernesto,' and I think it will be making a lot of headlines by later this weekend and early next week. Stay tuned....