Happy Weekend...
It's Friday and our weather is rolling in the right direction as we head into the weekend. We continue to be dominated by high pressure sprawled across the region. This high will work offshore and anchor itself to our east, this will promote onshore breezes this weekend and slightly cooler temps along the coast as opposed to the interior. Look for highs in the mid 80s inland and 75-80 near the coast. We won't see any rain this weekend either just high thin cirrus clouds at times. Should be a nearly perfect final weekend of August...enjoy. Early next week, a coldfront will approach with an increased risk of showers and thunderstorms Monday night and Tuesday. Following that, more sunny and warm days should follow.
Tropical Strom Isaac got a little better organized today and maximum sustained winds have increased to 65mph. It is traveling to the NW at about 15mph and will slide over Haiti late tonight and tomorrow and then Cuba on Sunday. The interaction with land will weaken Isaac a bit before it emerges in the Florida Straits and makes a run through the Keys and then into the very warm, untapped Gulf of Mexico. While in the Gulf, Isaac should go through rapid intensification, provided it doesn't hug the West Coast of Florida and remains out over open water. The reason for this is surface water temps are in the mid 80s in the Gulf and tropical systems thrive off of that. The National Hurricane Center has Isaac ramping up to hurricane status before making landfall somewhere on the Florida Panhandle. While that is the most likely final solution there still will likely be some movement for Isaac's final destination.
BTW, there are no signs at all of Isaac making it up to New England at this time.
