Fay Hugging New Jersey Coast...

Tropical Storm Fay is steadily moving to the north around 10 mph with her center just offshore of the New Jersey coast.   She will make landfall near dark moving near New York City before heading into Upstate New York.

As the satellite and radar pictures show, Fay looks more sub-tropical with the strongest winds and heaviest rains far away from her center.  Dry air has wrapped in over the south & east sides with the heavy rain band/squalls now north and west of the center.  Her main threat over night into Saturday will be the heavy rain potential.  For us it's a different story.

A small cluster of showers drifted southward over lower Mississippi and has since dissipated.  Another cluster of storms is weakening as it drifts to the SE from Oklahoma.

The Gulf is quiet with a disturbance moving across central America into the Pacific.  Our main concern is the high temperatures coupled with high dew points that result in a  dangerous heat index. Jackson, MS. had a temperature of 91, but the dew point was 80!  Basically, until late September, our only heat relief will come from cloud cover and showers.  No rain equals extremely hot temperatures.  Our rain chances look to remain low until late next week.  So unless you are willing to take a trip way up north or out into the Rockies, stop your whining about our hot weather.  Old-timers like me call it SUMMER!  Deal with it.  Stay tuned!