9/9/2013 Daily Update: Warming Up + Sunny Monday, Humberto Forms in the Atlantic (First Hurricane of Season Finally?)

Good morning everyone!

Hope you enjoyed the weekend. It's a cool start this morning but it gets warmer by the afternoon with dry conditions prevailing.

TODAY: Sunny, with highs in the upper 60s to lower 70s. Winds from the SW at 5 to 10 mph.

TONIGHT: Clouds on the increase, with lows in the lower to mid 50s. Winds from the S at 5 mph.

TOMORROW: Partly to mostly cloudy skies with a small chance of an isolated shower or storm. Warmer with highs reaching into the 80s. Winds from the S at 5 to 15 mph.

A warm-up is expected midweek and temperatures could rise to 90 degrees on Wednesday! It will definitely feel like summer in the middle of July. With the hotter weather comes the chance for scattered showers and thunderstorms, a few of which could be strong to severe. Watching the potential closely as it gets near. Small shot at storms Tuesday (mostly Northern New England), and Wednesday and Thursday for Southern New England.

ATLANTIC TROPICS

• The NHC has upgraded the tropical wave in the Eastern Atlantic to Tropical Storm Humberto, the 8th named storm of the season. Near-term effects for the Cape Verde islands, long-term - could turn out to be the first hurricane of the season as it heads W-NW. NHC is pretty optimistic on this one and so are the models. Going to come close to the September 11th latest hurricane record. In fact, NHC has Humberto becoming a hurricane at EXACTLY September 11th...
• Remnants of Gabrielle is not posing much of a threat for the near future. Low chances of development in the next 5 days. Besides Bermuda who is directed on her path, she should just be a surf-maker for the East Coast.

Newly-formed Tropical Storm Humberto in the Eastern Atlantic and the remnants
of Gabrielle in the north Caribbean

NATIONAL WEATHER

• Pleasant weather for the Northeast
• Isolated storms for the Southeast, otherwise hot and dry
• Heat continues for the Midwest and the South
• Storms in the Northern Plains and Great Lakes with the low moving over the area
• Flooding threat for the Southwest with tropical moisture feeding in
• Dry for the Northwest and West Coast

WORLD WEATHER

• Rain for Western and Central Europe
• Southeast Australia is being drenched

EARTHQUAKES

• There were no earthquakes rated at or above M6 yesterday or so far today.

SPACE WEATHER

• Another coronal hole expected to face Earth by the end of the week.
• All quiet with the sun with sunspots few and far between. M-class flare chances have dropped to a meager 1%.

Unimpressive sun with only 2 spots - solar
activity is very low