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08/31/2022, 4:07 pm EDT
Category-4 Typhoon Hinnamnor just-misses China to the east this weekend as intense drought continues. The immense California heatwave ahead peaks in strength next Tuesday. NOAA 30-day forecasts widen Midwest and Northeast drought while implicating Louisiana for September hurricanes.
08/31/2022, 12:46 pm EDT
The low relative humidity dominating the central North Atlantic tropics in August but easing recently suggests the environment is improving for tropical cyclone development except for the upper shear pattern in the Caribbean Sea and central North Atlantic tropics.
08/30/2022, 8:21 am EDT
Using NOAA population weight CDD observations, the U.S. weekly population weight CDD was variable – normal and warm – early during summer 2022. The hottest part of summer climatologically is when the hottest weekly CDD count occurred in July. Recently, briefly cooler national CDD was observed. The warm season 2022 finishes somewhat warmer than normal.
08/30/2022, 8:12 am EDT
ECMWF indicates the most likely location for tropical cyclones to develop that can become hurricanes and make landfall on the U.S. Coast is in the Gulf of Mexico for the last third of September and into early October. This season's core activity arrives late and lasts longer than usual!