Nice weather ahead... tropics very active...

Drier air has slipped into the western half of the Carolinas, and that means for places along the I-85 corridor on up through the foothills and mountains, some fantastic weather is ahead. Piedmont highs in the drier air region today will be in the upper 70s today and near 80 tomorrow.

We will likely remain dry through the weekend with highs in the 80s.

Tropics...

Lots to discuss here....the easy one first.

Katia is making the turn to the north and then northeast and will avoid any land areas...good news.

TD 14 will likely become Maria today, and this will need to be watched as a potential East coast threat later next week.

In the southern Gulf of Mexico, a disturbance is slowly organizing and could become a classified system. The models are split on this one...some take it west to Mexico...some bring it north to the central Gulf coast. Too soon to tell, but I would slightly lean toward the Gulf coast solution at this point. If that is correct, some rain from that system would move into the Southeast by early next week.