A NICE WEEKEND SEEMS LIKELY FOR HAMPTON ROADS… THE TROPICS ARE QUIET FOR NOW
Well, I’m back after a trip to NJ and the first thing that I always do when I get home is to check my rain gauge. It appears that little, if any, rain fell in my backyard since I left on Saturday, August 2nd. Although some areas may still be running a deficit, my neighborhood received 11.80 inches of rain during the month of July! Note that June was a very dry month, though. Many areas of the Southeast are still in a drought so we really are not out of the woods just yet. Our rain chances don’t appear to be very high over the next several days. A slightly cooler and drier air mass will be moving into the region on Friday which should make for a really nice weekend for Hampton Roads. According to the NWS, there is a great deal of uncertainty in the extended forecast due to computer model inconsistencies. As it looks now, the next chance of any rain doesn’t come until Wednesday. The tropics are quiet for now, but we are entering the period when things usually pick up. The Cape Verde season will soon be upon us so we will have to watch the tropical waves moving off Africa much more closely. These are the long-tracked storms that develop in the Eastern or Central Atlantic. I’ll have an update on Saturday
