8/20/2013 Daily Update: Near 90 Today, Philippines Flooding

Good afternoon everyone!

Temperatures are on the increase for the next few days with more humid air arriving from the south and the jet stream displaced north into Canada.

TODAY: Sunny with highs in the mid to upper 80s and near 90. Winds from the W at 5 to 10 mph.

TONIGHT: Clear with highs in the mid to upper 50s. Winds turning light overnight.

TOMORROW: Sunny skies with highs in the mid 80s and reaching 90 degrees especially in the valleys. Winds from the SW at 5 to 10 mph.

By Thursday afternoon/Friday, a cold front will swing through the region bringing storm chances and cooler air back in the forecast.

NATIONAL WEATHER

• Sunny and dry in the Northeast with high pressure
• Scattered thunderstorms in the Southeast. Humid.
• Hot weather across the South and the Plains with few storms around
• Nice weather for the West Coast and Pacific Northwest

WORLD WEATHER

• Tropical Storm Trami in the Western Pacific is one to monitor as it is expected to impact Northern Taiwan tomorrow. Meanwhile, Pewa's strengthening died down abruptly but it is expected to strengthen back into a typhoon. Unala is gone and another tropical depression has taken shape in the Central Pacific.
• Severe flooding in the Philippines from heavy monsoonal rains has killed at least 7 and tens of thousands are forced to evacuate. 70% of Manila, the nation's capital, is underwater. Schools, government offices, and financial markets, are closed. http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/20/world/asia/philippines-floods/
• An isolated tornado touched down in Central Germany from yesterday's storms. Thankfully, that system is out of the way and shifted northeast but a next low and round of storms is heading toward the United Kingdom for tomorrow. Showers forecasted for Northeast Europe today.
• Same story with showers affecting southern portions of Australia and New Zealand while high pressure remains firm for the rest of the continent.

Tornado report in Central Germany
(Source: http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php)

EARTHQUAKES

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

SPACE WEATHER

• An off-target CME that blasted from the sun two days ago could still trigger a geomagnetic storm today or tomorrow.
• A large halo CME blasted from the sun yesterday but the good news is it was on the far side of the sun and not Earth-facing. A cool spectacle can be seen on SOHO where a sundiving comet plunged into the sun and perishing the icy-cold body from the solar system. A neat image of the CME and sundiving comet is on spaceweather.com.
• The sun is dotted with sunspots but none look too significant except for Sunspot 1825 which harbors energy for M-class flares. Percentage kept at 25% chance of a M-class flare in the next 24 hours.

Sunspot 1825 possesses energy for M-class
solar flares (Source: spaceweather.com)