Hurricanes Serving Their Purpose With Minimal Impacts...

tropical oceans and I learned long ago in Meteorology 101, that a Hurricane was a "Heat Engine" who's purpose was to take the heat of the tropical oceans and redistribute it to the northern latitudes.  It is Mother Nature's way to keep the Earth's heat balance in check.  There have been many named storms this 2023 season, but most have stayed well east of the U.S. This can be seen in the change in the ocean heat content that shows the upwelling of colder waters off the East Coast.

Our newest named Tropical Storm Nigel is following the same general track as previous systems.  He is predicted to become a Cat. 3 Hurricane, but will stay well out to sea.  For us, the Caribbean & Gulf have no issues to worry about.

Models do develop any storm way out in the Atlantic for later this week, but it's getting late in the season for those systems to reach the U.S.   Any development during the next 7-10 days will be closer in off the Florida, Georgia & Carolina coasts.

 There is an upper low near Chicago and, if this happens in December or January, we might have to worry about freezing temps.  But there is no real cold air around yet as northern Montana is near 90.

A front has pushed through us into the Gulf bring lower dew points (drier air) and that should result in cooler morning lows.

But with lots of sunshine and no rain around, we again topped 90+ as we begin the last week of Astronomical Summer.  The 7 day offers little relief.

I do remember the hot summer of 1980 had a 90 degree day well into October.  I hope we don't see a repeat.  Stay tuned!