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Ok experts, whats the forecast looking like for OC MD next (26-28) weekend? Headed to Oceans Calling, hoping we don't get a 'cane coming up the coast.

Cleared out nicely and the temp is up to 81. Jetting out of work a little early to play 18 with my son. I'm annoyed, there were 2 ambient stations that I like to compare to mine right on my road, but one went offline a few days ago. I might be a weirdo and knock on the guys door and ask if he needs a battery to get it back up and running, haha

I think the warm blobs can begin to exert some influence on the pattern when they become anchored to the subsurface like we are seeing now across most of the WPAC to North of Hawaii. Last winter we had one of the deepest troughs for the last 20 years emerge to the east of Japan. The surface SSTs didn’t cool very much compared to past deep trough instances since the subsurface had accumulated to much heat. So the strong gradient remained between the area east of Japan and Siberia. This lead to frequent jet extensions. Plus when the record SSTs are located near the Kuroshio Current in the WPAC and Gulf Stream in the Atlantic, they can help to initiate Rossby wave breaking which have a big influence on hemispheric circulation patterns. https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/GODAS/ocean_briefing_gif/global_ocean_monitoring_current.pdf

Yes, right....the western warm pool incites convective action over the MC, which mimics cool ENSO. No argument there....all I was saying is that it's easier to get a cool ENSO like expression than it is warm ENSO....but we require a stronger ENSO signal for it to be the primary catalyst these days, yes.

Got up to 69 here - mostly sunny. 72 tomorrow and Saturday. Everyone here is acting like it’s peak summer - and there is no chance of rain so that is my fault.

Haven't had a day with 1"+ since early December; first year to get past June without at least one. Since the light showers on 9/7, not a drop.

Going to mow the lawn possibly for the last time this weekend, Only been mowed twice in the last 6 weeks, Chance of a frost this weekend would be the icing on the cake to end the grow season officially.

I'm aware of that but .. I don't believe they have that right. The ENSO and the La Nina apparent fingerprint is coincidental in that sense - not being forced by the ENSO state/thermal distribution as it terminates into the westerlies. It just so happens to be that in the absence of either, there is a feeble ONI that encourages upwelling over the eastern Pac but it doesn't really reflect a La Nina. Makes it exceedingly difficult to parse the two apart, sure.. because the expanding HC and the break down of that device/organized circulation machinery, lends to a residual SS stressing that orients E --> W In other words, the correlation is too linear.

If the follow up wave does not develop, there are some mild concerns down the road it might ride the low level flow further west and develop closer to home. Some ensemble support for development in SW Atlantic from the lemon highlighted by NHC. With everything else pretty dead, at least something to watch

lol...this POS storm pretty much sums up the whole season.

IMO, they named this storm before it met tropical cyclone criteria, namely it didn’t have a closed circulation. It has certainly acquired that now, but with 0 convection, this should be a depression at best. I will go on a limb and say, there is NO way this is producing TS force winds right now

reminds me of briefly living in san diego. Was great wx most of the time, but missed the four seasons. Left and came back after 1yr.

Fwiw - That's houses and the rebuilt elementary and middle school (Crenshaw) in Crystal Beach after Ike. All of that construction had nothing to do with Harvey and was done due to Ike.

Can't think of a more boring stretch in my life

12z mex mins for Sun AM

I think these warm blobs are nothing more than a result of the pattern and not an influencer of the pattern. I think it could help feedback but no way can it overpower other influencing factors IMO.

78 / 63 sunny and warming. Low - mid 80s Thu / Fri ahead of the front. Cooler but another dry weekend. Warmer overall Mon - beyond. Next threat of rain comes 25 - 27, otherwise dry.

Maybe the happy middle is naming non tropical storms and use a naming convention that is different than what is used for tropical storms. This would raise public awareness to a certain degree. Off the top of my head, maybe use the NATO Phonetic alphabet for non tropical storms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet

The Pacific is showing some large scale cooling in recent days, have to see if that is just the beginning of something or a blip in the road.

Thanks for sharing. I can attest to how this approach does mitigate flood damage to homes. My home on St. George Island is on 12' pilings. I had two feet of water under my home from Helene last year. It was not from storm surge but from excessive rainfall that had nowhere to go because the water table was full. That article is misleading in that it does not mention the 15' requirement. The article mentions a 2' requirement if building on a 100 or 500 year flood plain but that may be not be enough based on what Harvey did.

Finally getting some clearing here. Local observations put the event just under 2" for us. Seemed like a lot more than that.

If this dry pattern continues into October and it looks like it will, my fear is that this drought has a chance of becoming worse than last fall….that dry pattern didn’t start until after mid-August, this one started at the tail end of July

Understood, totally agree.

Wife and I were joking that our dog got a new house on our land way before us lol. So why not... auto water and maybe a pinball machine and mini fridge.

I meant for this to be in the banter thread, but the point is that one has to use established definitions consistently for clear communication. Otherwise, confusion can erode preparedness and public safety.