Through Tuesday, a persistent upper-level low over the Tennessee River Valley is slowly shifting northeast, with part of it breaking off and forming a trough over the Lower Mississippi River Valley tonight. Meanwhile, surface high…
Month: September 2024
9/29/24 Weekly/Tropical Outlook – Dry, Dry Week Followed by Some Tropical Rain
We’re ending off the weekend with some seasonably warm but dry weather. We’ll top out in the upper 80s with a matching heat index and partly cloudy skies. Over the next few days, we’ll have…
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A Dry, Breezy, and Pleasant Weekend – Weekend Forecast for South MS 9/28/24
As the remnants of Helene are absorbed into the stout trough that pushed it further east, this will bring in some drier air to much of the southeastern US. The mid-Appalachians are still dealing with…
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9/28/24 12p Tropical Update — Another area to monitor in the NW Caribbean
There is no reason to worry about anything specific at this time. I wanted to write that sentence without punctuation. There are no pauses, no clauses, no asterisks, to parenthesis. There is nothing to worry…
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Helene stays east, new area to monitor in Caribbean: Southern MS/AL/LA Weather Forecast – 9/26/24
A quiet weather pattern continues across the region tonight as drier air wraps into the area. Clouds will gradually increase overnight, with lows dipping into the low 60s. By Friday afternoon, tropical moisture from the…
Helene’s forecast track eases west, but still not anticipated to impact our area: Southern MS/AL/LA Weather Forecast – 9/25/24
This evening, a weakening cold front will clear out most of the showers in our area, giving way to drier and cooler conditions. Overnight temperatures are expected to drop to the low to mid-60s. Hurricane…
Helene stays east of our area, calm weather remains: southern MS/AL/LA Weather Forecast – 9/24/24
I’m not ready to guarantee that Tropical Storm Helene misses our area. But now that it has formed, the models have a good handle on the system, and the forecast is mostly unchanged, I feel…
Better shot for rain this week, with eyes on PTC 9 in the Caribbean: Southern MS/AL/LA Weather Forecast – 9/23/24
While we continue to monitor Potential Tropical Cyclone Nine (eventually to be named Helene), thigns around here are going to be pretty nice – at least for a few days. The latest on PTC Nine…
9/22/24 Weekly and Tropical Outlook for MS/LA/AL
With the wake of the updated models on the Central American Gyre, it has now been updated to a Tropical Invest. I have my tropical discussion below, however whether or not it moves strictly north…
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9/21/24 11a Tropical Update — ‘Something’ in the Gulf later this week
Since everyone and their brother seem to be yelling about, posting, and sharing the model guidance for the next potential tropical system, I figure I should wrap some context around it. So, I wanted to…
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