Monday, August 30, 2010

Earl to Head Up The Coast

The weather pattern is getting busy as we wind up August and head into September. The jet stream is diving across the western U.S. bringing in much cooler air and helping to generate showers and thunderstorms. The jet will migrate to the east and head back into Canada for a brief time as the Labor Day weekend approaches.
Showers and thunderstorms will generate locally heavy rainfall along the Gulf coast from Houston to Mobile and Biloxi. Isolated rainfall reports of 1 to 3 inches will be likely.

Hurricane Earl is ENE of Puerto Rico this morning. The current forecast track takes it to near North Carolina Thursday, then to NYC, Boston and Providence on Saturday. Earl will impact the Outer Banks with high surf, high wind and a lot of beach erosion. As far as air travel goes, anyone with plans to fly in or out of Washington D.C., Baltimore, Newark, LaGuardia, JFK, Boston, Providence, Philadelphia or Portland ME ought to think of a different plan - especially Friday night and Saturday- as significant flight delays or cancellations are likely.

Much colder air will swirl into the backside of Earl across New England Sunday and Monday with highs only in the 50s and 60s, and lows in the 30s - if not the upper 20s.

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