Friday’s Forecast:
While Edouard is no more, the tropical moisture from the broad circulation is still over southeast Texas. That means more heavy rain will fall Friday. Storms will be hit and miss but if you get hit expect heavy rain and a lot of lightning. Below is the futurecast at 3pm.
Labor Day Weekend:
Stay weather aware this weekend because more rain is coming. On Saturday a tropical wave that is in the northern Gulf moves in. This brings our best chance of widespread thunderstorms. I’m going with a 60% chance of thunderstorms. It also brings a low street flooding threat.
Sunday and Labor Day Monday:
Tropical moisture is expected to stick around through the weekend bringing scattered showers and storms each day. Don’t cancel those outdoor plans but have a backup to move them indoors.
Tracking the tropics:
Now that Edouard is no more, the Atlantic is completely quiet and no tropical development is expected in the next seven days.
Edouard hit as a 60mph tropical storm. So far this hurricane season we have not had a hurricane form in the Atlantic basin. The latest first hurricane to form was Gustav and Humberto, which formed on September 11th. In the modern era there has always been at least one hurricane to form.
Meanwhile in the Pacific:
The exceptionally strong El Niño has created near-ideal conditions for tropical development across the Pacific. Currently there is Category 4 Lowell, Cat 3 Karina and category one hurricane Maria. Lowell will impact the Hawaiian Islands. The question is how much. It will track toward the island of Kauai, which is in the cone. While this track looks strange it is similar to hurricane Iniki in 1983, which also had a devastating impact on Kauai.
Extended forecast:
With no high pressure around temperatures will be near average for this time of year and sea breeze storms are possible nearly every day through the middle part of next week.
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