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Hot summer weather is the story today and tomorrow; highs in the mid 90s with lots of sunshine. Showers will be almost impossible to find over the northern half of the state with drier air and subsidence in place today. Of course, this is summer, so a few blips might show up on the radar this afternoon, but they should be tiny and very widely spaced.
LATER IN THE WEEK: We should see a gradual increase in scattered afternoon thunderstorms by Wednesday and Thursday with a weak boundary approaching from the north and stalling out over Tennessee. Then, ridging builds along the Gulf coast (5940 meters at 500 mb), which should set the stage for fairly routine summer weather for Friday and the weekend; hot and muggy with widely scattered afternoon showers and storms. Highs in the low to mid 90s.
VOODOO LAND: Still looks like very routine summer weather for mid-July, with humid air across the Deep South and ridging aloft. That means partly sunny, hot days with an almost daily disk of an afternoon shower or storm in a few spots. Highs stay in the 90 to 95 degree range; no sign of any nasty heat like we dealt with last summer (triple digits)… but don’t forget we have to make it trough August!
BERTHA: We now have our first hurricane of the season; watch the Weather Xtreme video for the graphics. Still looks like this will be a recurving tropical cyclone, remaining east of the U.S., but that is not carved in stone completely. The NHC track has Bertha approaching Bermuda by the end of the week, on a northward motion at the time. Most storms in that position do recurve into the open Atlantic; we will keep an eye on it.
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Gotta leave early this morning; speaking to a big group at teachers at the AMSTI workshop at Saks High School this morning. I will be back by midday and the afternoon Weather Xtreme video will be posted by 3:30 or so. Enjoy the day!
