Hurricane Harbor: Severe Weather Summer Days. Hurricane Season Maybe Waking Up in a Week or So. Stay Tuned. Named Storm in August? Keep Watching...

This is the EURO

Shows a huge dust buster wave.

This is for Monday 8/14

If this verifies.....

...could help juice up the atmosphere.

Strong wave grows in size.

Waxes and wanes.

Next wave comes off....

...then there's two waves.

You can see the lead wave below...

Shadow signature there.

Small wave behind it tries to cross

Bottom line here is that the atmosphere is still not hospitable, yet each new wave tries again to wrap up, ride along under the huge high and tries to spin up and develop. The above long range graphic is for August 18th. Did the lead wave do a good enough job taking a bite out of the dust? We just don't know, it's a model and a model is a suggestion of what could happen, no guarantees. The quality of the wave itself is important, some really look good on satellite imagery but don't have what it takes to go the distance. Tropical waves are like people, some are interesting, compelling and dealmakers and others are just another person who you smile at as you pass them by.

I sound like a broken record. Meteorologists online are taking stabs at trying to explain why with so much hot water available and shear lower than normal things are not forming. I'm not joining in the chorus today, you can read my blog from yesterday that tries to explain why we mostly are chasing blobby waves across the Atlantic. And, while that stuck pattern is going on, severe weather in more Northern latitudes are firing off one line after another of summer storms.

I'm in Charlotte a city that sits on the North Carolina/South Carolina line. A bit higher up than Raleigh, actually twice as high and sometimes gets better storms. Yesterday's storm was multifaceted, with a wild gust front as it rode in across the city and delivered strong winds for a while and impressive lightning, for a while and then it punched on moving East rapidly on it's way to impressing some other town, knocking down some trees, taking out someone's power. Life went on in the Southpark neighborhood of Charlotte as if nothing much happened other than a summer storm with a tornado warning. The picture below is from up above somewhere, you get the whole view and feel of what the line really looked like.

Just after I took this picture it began thundering.

Close by and loud.

Complex, angry clouds.

Rushing through fast.

Honestly looked more like a Miami afternoon thunderstorm on the move turning that odd shade of dark gray with a bit of purple in it as it moved in, then a colorful collection of every shade of gray above you as you looked at the horizon trying to find a better view.

The storm had power.

I will say that much.

Fun while it lasted.

I like weather.

Hate to see scenes like these tho...

Utility poles laid down across the highway.

And the worse of it seemed further to the North and East up near Maryland and flooding rains in New Jersey and well later on today we will do it again somewhere in the same area.

Stuck pattern. Deep South still baking, though it's moderated some up this way but it's still summer.

What changes?

A strong set of cold fronts dipping down deep (that would cause more wicked weather though) or a hurricane moving up from the tropics rearranging the weather patten in the Deep South.

Yada Yada Life Goes On...

Make your day a good day. Feel good, feel positive and feel productive. Do the best you can!

Watching the tropics but that's all we are doing, watching the general pattern, set up and waiting to see at what point something changes. It's called a "long hot summer" for a reason...

People blame death and destruction on a landfalling hurricane, and while that is true it's nothing like the long daily assault of extreme hot weather and summer storms pounding the same area, every day in a long, hot, summer. Heat can be a real killer especially for the weak and frail and people that just can't take the heat medically or otherwise.

Stay weather aware and have a good day,

Sweet Tropical Dreams,

BobbiStorm

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If you read my bio I studied dance at a young age, years of Drama and I love a good musical more than most. Trying to find a fun song here. I'm not sure if people complained as much back then but I do remember my Grandma holding her fan in her hand that never stopped for a minute (she was taught as a baby how to fan herself apparently) telling me "Lord, how much longer is it gonna be so hot" so I'm pretty sure one thing we have done since forever is complain how hot it is as we crawl our way through August to the promised land of September. But, in Hurricane Country the question is what will September deliver and to who???