Monday Morning Musings...

Lots of heat this week. I still think this will be the hottest week of the year. Look for mid to upper 90s all work week long, with heat index values exceeding 100 degrees any afternoon. Stay cool!!

The tropics have been simmering, and I think the lid is about to burst off. We still have the tropical wave in the Caribbean Sea, the one approaching the Lesser Antilles, and one off of the African coast.

The GFDL has been indicating that the wave east of the islands will develop and move west-northwest this week. It is still indicating this on its 6z run today. That system could wind up off of the east coast by next weekend.

The wave in the Caribbean is probably destined for the Gulf this week.

And, for several runs in a row now, the GFS (and now the Canadian as well) develops out first true Cape Verde tropical system in the eastern Atlantic this week.

So, all in all, I think the quiet period of weather in the tropics is about to come to an end.

A couple of notes here...I had planned on putting up some of the tropical model data here this morning, but the blogspot.com domain is very sluggish....couldn't upload any images.

Also, we are aware of the issue on the News 14 Carolina web site where graphics and radar images are not being updated. We are working to resolve that. Thanks for your patience.