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Not much to add for me. Edouard is running out of time but is trying to make a run this morning.

August rain at my house=2.25". Was hoping for a bit more to end the month and it rained the last 4 days in a row but with a whopping total of 0.09". It's pretty uncommon to get monsoon moisture here after Labor Day but we'll see....

Not playing devil's advocate, but it was a small core to begin with. I don't think it needed tightening so much as it just needed an intense inner band to erupt in close proximity to the nascent LLC. Once that happens, it's better able to absorb/feed off of the high immediately high SSTs. It's essentially a feedbak loop. You need a strong cell to wrap and increase that inflow into the updraft, hence what we are seeing now. Sure, it doesn't hurt to be near the shoreline and moving over high heat content.

I like my months to be 4 letters or less

I'm wall to wall blowtorch. Deep South severe all winter. Early season start to severe Mid-South. Of course the eastern Valley will find a way to be cool. Great for storm anxious, but just one more thing about which I will vent!

Unfortunately I believe that Carvers is right. I know we've had some warm Septembers, but this is effin' ludicrous! I can handle a couple ridiculous weeks, but the whole month looks ludicrous. And this week is effin' plaid! (Spaceballs)

Took me a second and I never thought about it: September, October, November, December. It's a great time, if the weather cooperates.

Took the words right out of my mouth. The quick wrapping of the core has me thinking HU intensity is not off the table yet.

Good because I am in Soup mode!

Might be starting to see some of that frictional convergence at play now with the tightening core

What is BER?

Why do you say that? Theoretically AGW could have actually *delayed* this collapse. (devil's advocate - bear with me) If we go with the freeze/thaw loosening theory (seems quite plausible, at least as a contributing factor): From what I read - there can be some freeze/thaw cycles that happen underneath glaciers, due to some cyclical nature of their movement; they accelerate and decelerate some with the seasons; the changes in friction then resulting in some temperature swings. In some cases I would imagine there are glaciers for which the ground (bedrock etc.) underneath is typically thawed more frequently than it is frozen. In some areas in such cases an overall increase in atmospheric temperature can result in *less* freeze/thaw cycling, rather than more. This can be true on the surface, but could also even be more true at depths due to dampening of the atmospheric effect. An increase in freeze-thaw cycles would actually only actually happen at places that are specifically on the thresholds where for any given season the ground under the glacier sometimes - but not always - thaws in any given season, and where the thawed period is less than the melted period. In general - it seems like folks are doing their damndest to try and pin any and all natural disasters on AGW, when mostly they're likely just, well, natural, and would have happened whether AGW was a thing or not.

Improvement on IR imagery is remarkable over just the last 2 hours

ground not even wet. blows

90+ through Saturday here.

0.96" overnight, more than i expected. Heavy showers moving in, just heard a rumble of thunder

There is still a weaker component to the northern semicircle of the overall vortex, but compared to even three hours ago, this is a very significant improvement in core presentation.

Probably will be rain

I think part of what saved February in 1983 was Nino 1+2 didn’t peak until the summer and wasn’t as extreme as 1997-1998 was during the winter.

He looked upon what he did and it was indeed very good

I think that being open-minded about this is the best approach at this time. I initially assumed that CC was the main cause of this. Now, after reading about the bedrock collapse theory put out by a reputable publication (per my checking into it this morning), that’s giving me some doubt about my first thoughts. I just posted this elsewhere: “I’ve also been reading about the theory about the main cause of this being bedrock failure with the glacier collapsing mainly because of that. Whereas CC could easily still have played some role, there are currently more doubts in my mind than earlier as regards whether it played a large role based on what I’ve been reading today. In summary, much more time is likely needed to attempt to figure out the actually cause(s) of this complex disaster. That’s the safest approach to take now. Even if CC didn’t play much of a role in this, that in itself doesn’t minimize the effect of it on melting ice in general due to GW.”

PHL mean temperature August 2026: 79.2 (tied 8th warmest) Summer 2026 (JJA): 78.8 (tied 3rd warmest with 2016, only behind 2010 and 2022)

I agree let’s get a few LBSW bands that never make it out of CT. Blizzard of 2016 repeat with another strong El Niño?

Starting to see some barbs approaching hurricane force. Obviously these are at height but this is probably a 50-55 kt system based on radar data alone

It sounds like it will be a process - but lack of budget/funding and retiring faculty. It's very unfortunate!