Low Pressure Moves Out - Will It Interact With Irene?
It’s debatable whether the rainy weather of the last few days is better or worse than summer’s heat. Although the temperatures are lower than what you might expect on an early August day, the humidity is brutal, made even worse by alternating periods of rain, and then sun. It’s not that there has been a huge amount of rain — here, less than an inch, although other areas have gotten more — it’s the seemingly rain-forest like conditions.
All the unpleasant weather has been caused by a low pressure system that stalled over the Florida panhandle. The system moved plenty of tropical moisture into North Georgia. That system is now, finally, moving northeast, bringing abundant rainfall to the Carolina and Virginia coasts, and setting us up for more normal, albeit warmer weather, beginning on Wednesday. While it won’t be as warm as what we saw during the last week of July, expect temperatures in the upper 80s to around 90. The chance of rain becomes less frequent as well, with the possibility of afternoon thundershowers continuing each day.
The open question is how the trough will interact with the tropical weather in the Atlantic. While Harvey has largely moved out of the picture, it’s now do or die time for Irene, which has more or less stalled out in the Atlantic. One theory has Irene getting caught up in the low as it presses eastward, and moving northeast, more or less safely out of harm’s way.
Another theory is that Irene gains strength enough to be less affected by the low pressure system. In this scenario, she intensifies as she approaches the US coastline, and moves in a more westerly path, making andfall somewhere along the east coast.
We’re likely to know which way Irene will go in the next few days, and if the storm does intensify, there could be some interesting weather next week.
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