Edouard Briefly Cat. 3

It's hard to believe (after all the Alarmist's predictions for more numerous & intense hurricanes) that we finally saw a major (Cat. 3) hurricane in the Atlantic Basin.   You have to go back to Sandy in 2012 when she was a Cat. 3 south of Cuba.   The lack of storm activity (5 Names) in the Atlantic contrasts to the eastern Pacific where they have had 16 named storms with 7 of them reaching major status!   That is very typical.  When one basin is active, the other is not.  So let's hope this trend/pattern continues into October.  I was thinking we'd see several late September REAL cold fronts, but that appears unlikely for the next 7-10 days.  We need the east coast upper trough to return and computer models are not predicting that.  In fact, they are keeping most of the lower 48 states warm with the winter-like cold bottled up in Canada.  When the dip in the jet stream does arrive in early October, we'll be running for our sweaters & jackets.  Stay tuned!

locally, we should see far fewer showers around the next several days.  Drier but not cooler!