Update for the rest of the week and weekend
There's quite a bit going on in the weather world. Nothing really big, just a lot of little things all at once.
For starters, we are going to ride the temperature rollercoaster for the foreseeable future.
In addition, as I warned about a few months ago when people were complaining about all the rain, there really is not any significant rainfall in the long-range forecast going out into the second week of August. This is going to cause problems with drought conditions for those areas that never really recovered.
What do these temperature fluctuations mean for the Fall and Winter given that we are seeing 40s and now even 30s for lows in August? I'm not really sure yet.
What we have right now is a disruption in the upper atmosphere allowing cold air from northern Canada to be pulled down into our region.
Friday will be hot. No way around it. With some ambient temperatures reaching near 100, the heat index will likely hit the double digits for a portion of interior southern New England.
A cold front pushing in later in the day will stir up storms.
Again... pop up storms are just that, storms that pop up out of nowhere. They form, intensify, drop all their moisture, and then if nothing is available to re-energize them, they dissipate to nothing. There is no way to specifically tell where or when a storm will form, only a rough timeframe and estimated region.
In the tropics we have been watching a few potential areas over the past few days, but nothing that really seems like anything to get overly worried about. As one area dissipates, another area forms. Pretty dull hurricane season so far. Not even anything decent forming and spinning off into the Atlantic.
