Northern Gulf Rumbling, But No Organization...

The area of "disturbed weather" has expanded across the northern Gulf with lots of lightning & thunder.  Satellite and radar loops do not show any indication of organization.  In fact, storm motion is rather chaotic with slow moving storms dumping some folks with 1-3"+ in less than an hour while a few blocks away you get nothing.  As always, where it's raining it's less hot.

This deep pool of tropical moisture will hang around at least another day with the potential for some street flooding again tomorrow.

The super heat continues just to our west while the high dew points(70+) have soared all the way up to Green Bay.  It is nice to see cold fronts coming to the northern states.  We're about 4-5 weeks away from seeing a REAL cold front and wouldn't that be nice?!!!

The only good thing about our above normal clouds & showers is it keeps our temperatures below 90.  After a record hot June, July was near normal/average and August is off to a "cool-ish" start.   The Tropics are showing no signs of life as the Saharan dust and TUTT (upper Lows) dominates.

Look at the low way out in the Atlantic.  Notice there are no storms with it.   Closer in we have an upper low north of Puerto Rico and a smaller one just off the south Florida west coast.  No model develops these systems.   However, the GFS does form a weak low east the the N.C. coast in 10 days , but moves it out to sea.  Could it become Danielle?  Stay tuned!