9/8/2013 Daily Update: Not Bad for Your Sunday, Freak Hailstorm Hits the U.K.

Good afternoon (noon) everyone!

After a few showers last night, we should be mainly dry and sunny today. Can't rule out a spot shower but that is it. Enjoy your Sunday!

TODAY: Sunny, with a small chance of an isolated shower. Highs at or around 70 degrees. A bit breezy with N winds at 5 to 15 mph, gusting over 20 mph at times.

TONIGHT: Clear skies and another cool one, with lows plummeting into the upper 30s to lower 40s. A Frost Advisory is out for Northern Berkshire County. Winds will be calm.

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

ATLANTIC TROPICS

• Highest chance of development is along the Eastern Atlantic near the Cape Verde islands. NHC is quite confident with a 70% chance of development in the next 48 hours, 90% in the next 5 days. If it develops, the system would be named Humberto.
• The remnants of Gabrielle is located in the northern Caribbean Sea. Doesn't look organized on satellite as it moves north and so has a low chance of reforming.
• NOTE: The date of the latest forming hurricane on record is September 11th, 2002 with Hurricane Gustav. Going to be interesting to see whether the wave in the Eastern Atlantic can develop into a hurricane before September 11th as models are latching onto it forming into a strong tropical storm/hurricane recurving.

NATIONAL WEATHER

• Cold front moving across the Northeast with showers chances
• High pressure over the Southeast is ushering in warm air and keeping things dry for the most part but storms still possible along the coastlines.
• The heat wave continues for the Midwest and the heart of the country.
• Showers and storms for the Southwest and the Mountain West states from Lorena's moisture.
• Dry and warm across the Northwest and West Coast

WORLD WEATHER

• A freak hailstorm hit the U.K. putting an end to a heat wave there. http://metro.co.uk/2013/09/07/freak-hailstorm-turns-cornwall-town-into-winter-scene-24-hours-after-heatwave-3953553/
• Showers and storms for parts of Western Europe from the low spinning counter-clockwise over the U.K.
• Showers for Tasmania today, otherwise mostly dry conditions.

EARTHQUAKES

• An uptick in activity over Europe with a 5.0 in Greece and a 4.6 in Romania.
• There were no earthquakes rated at or above M6 yesterday or so far today.

SPACE WEATHER

• A coronal hole is expected to turn toward Earth and bump solar wind speeds and disturb the geomagnetic field tomorrow.
• Quiet sun, flaring is low, and there are only 3 sunspots on the visible solar disk. M-class flare chances are low at 5% in the next 24 hours.