9/28/2013 Daily Update: Lovely Start to Weekend, Strong 6.8 Aftershock Rocks Pakistan

Good morning everyone!

A lovely start to the weekend with milder temps in the mid 70s under sunny skies.

TODAY: Sunny with highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s. Winds from the E at 5 mph.

TONIGHT: Mostly clear skies with lows dropping into the mid 40s. Generally calm winds.

TOMORROW: Sunny with highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s. Winds from the E at 5 mph.

The coastal storm being talked about progged for early next week should stay relatively weak with fringe effects for the Cape and coastal Maine.

ATLANTIC TROPICS

• The big, disorganized blob from yesterday has suddenly shown organization and has become much smaller and could be a named system by the time it moves into the Central Atlantic. It's been designated Invest 96L and there is a slight to moderate chance of forming into a tropical cyclone. Plenty of open waters ahead if it does form.

Invest 96L is better from yesterday and has a chance at
being named Jerry

NATIONAL WEATHER

• Beautiful, splendid weather in the Northeast today
• Dry for the Southwest with a few showers associated from a coastal low developing
• Storms in the South and Midwest along a cold front
• Warm and drier air in the Mountain West
• Possible heavy rain for the Northwest

WORLD WEATHER

• Tropical Storm Wutip in the Western Pacific is expected to strengthen into a typhoon and is bearing down on central Vietnam
• Thunderstorms and heavy rain in Western Europe
• Showers and storms in southern Australia from a big low pressure staying south

Tropical Storm Wutip has eyes on Vietnam

EARTHQUAKES

• A strong 6.8 aftershock struck Pakistan this morning UTC time. (Earthquake details: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usb000k1gb#summary) Current death toll from the major 7.7 earthquake on Tuesday is now above 500 and I'm sure more to come as bodies are being recovered from fallen mud homes. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/27/us-pakistan-earthquake-idUSBRE98Q0I820130927

SPACE WEATHER

• Same old quiet in the space weather department. Current sunspots are stable and turning away from Earth. A new arrival can be seen on the eastern limb. M-class flare chances are at 1%.