8/30/2013 Daily Update: More Sun Today, 3 Killed in Taiwan From Kong-rey

Good morning everyone and Happy Friday!

Yesterday featured more clouds than sun but it was dry. Today is going to be the opposite - with more sun than clouds.

TODAY: Partly to mostly sunny with highs in the lower 80s. Winds from the SW at 5 mph.

TONIGHT: Mostly cloudy with lows in the lower 60s. Winds from S at 5 mph.

TOMORROW: Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. Winds from the SW at 5 to 10 mph.

Turning stormy heading into the weekend. Looking like chances of storms each day from Saturday to Tuesday.

ATLANTIC TROPICS

• Keeping tabs with the tropical wave in the Central Atlantic. NHC keeps chances at 10% for development.
• A large and pretty impressive wave coming out of Africa is designated Invest 96L and has a good chance of developing over the next couple of days. NHC - 40% chance at 48 hrs, 60% chance in 5 days

NATIONAL WEATHER

• Warmer across the Northeast from high pressure
• Stormy in the Southeast once again
• Very hot in the Midwest and South. A heat wave continues to grip the region.
• Strong to severe thunderstorms possible for the Dakotas
• Few PM thunderstorms possible in the Southwest
• Sunny and dry in the West Coast

WORLD WEATHER

• Kong-rey is a tropical depression dashing toward Japan after impacting Taiwan and brought heavy rains for the island country reeling from effects of Trami last week. 3 are confirmed dead in Taiwan. http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1300609/tropical-storm-kong-rey-kills-three-taiwan
• Juliette has become post-tropical out in the Eastern Pacific.
• Cloudy across northeastern and eastern parts of Europe, spotty t-storms in the South otherwise mostly dry
• Australian weather has been on repeat every single day with high to the north and showers to the south.

Track of Kong-rey expected to impact Japan tomorrow

EARTHQUAKES

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

SPACE WEATHER

• Coronal hole stream facing Earth will lead to faster solar wind speeds.
• A C8.3-class flare erupted from Sunspot 1836 last night and is the main focus for additional flares today. A CME was also seen which is expected to make a glancing blow this weekend. Aurora watch for high-latitudes.
• M-class flare chances today: 1%

Sunspot 1836 harbors energy for M-class
flares after a C8.3 flare last night. (Courtesy:
spaceweather.com)