Goodbye Josie & Kyle...

Tropical Storm Kyle had a brief & uneventful life as NHC has issued their final advisory.   But he makes it another name taken off the list.  What might be interesting to watch is the cloud cluster moving off the east coast behind Kyle.  Could that become Laura?  Gotta get those 25 names!

 Josephine has been downgraded to a Depression this morning and is unlikely to survive the strong wind shear over her the next several days.   She's another storm that looks to bother no one.

Her center of circulation has been totally exposed with all the storms blown well east of her center.

NHC is watching 2 new area for possible development out in the Atlantic.   The one moving off of Africa is so far out that I'll focus on the area closer in.

I posted about this system yesterday as a small swirl with no storms around it.  A couple have blossomed up on the southern side of the rotation, but it doesn't look very promising as this system is headed towards the eastern Caribbean, an area where tropical systems usually struggle.  We'll need to pay more attention to this later in the week as it's the western Caribbean that typically is more favorable for development.  Right now, we need not worry.

My focus now is the approaching "cool" front to our north.  The 50s & 60s degree dew points (good feel air) lag behind the front and it will have a difficult time pushing all the way through us to the coast.   While we remain very humid at the surface, drier air has flowed in from the north delaying the start of our daily showers,

Hard to get rain when you don't have clouds!  Look at the big boomers than developed along the coast this morning.  You can clearly see the shadows cast by the rising sun, especially those storms south of Destin. (oh to be at the beach!)

Finally, the smoke plume heading out of Colorado towards us has been cut off due to a cluster of storms across Kansas & Oklahoma.  However, look at the smoke plume covering eastern Colorado!  My oldest son lives in Longmont (NE of Boulder) and tells me I-70 has been shut down for days!  They need some rain to put out those fires.  I'd show you the California fires except they have too much cloud cover with even some heavy rains in the Bay area.  Not sure that's good for wine country, but the rest of the state welcomes any rainfall during the dry season.  The next 4-6 weeks are the peak activity time for the Hurricane Season.  Hurry up October!  Stay tuned!