Heating back up this week...Colin in the tropics???

What a cool down over the weekend! One of our cold air damming scenarios set itself up, and highs were drastically cooler over the weekend compared to what we saw for much of July. In fact, the high of 72 at the PTI Airport yesterday was cool enough to be the coolest high temp every recorded on August 1.

Today, the early August sun should work on our persistent desk of stratus clouds with time, and those clouds should gradually decrease through the day. How quickly the clouds erode is the big forecast challenge today, and that will determine our high temps. Generally speaking, I am going with mid 80s for much of the region, but again, it depends on the speed with which the clouds erode.

Tomorrow we will see the return of lower 90s around the area with a partly cloudy sky. The, look for mid 90s Wednesday and mid to upper 90s Thursday.

A few PM storms are possible Wednesday, and then Thursday and Friday will see pretty good chances of some showers and storms as our next cold front approaches.

That front will slowly try to push south of the region over the weekend, but whether or not will completely clear out of the area remains to be seen.

Tropics...

A tropical wave about midway between the Lesser Antilles and the Cape Verde Islands continues to organize, and there is a very good chance this becomes our next classified tropical system. When/ if it becomes a tropical storm, the name will be Colin.

A general west-northwest motion should continue for this system, and by Sunday or so this could be in the Bahamas. Stay tuned....

Remember, the Tropical Weather section of the site has lots of good info.....