Yeah—it’s like a 2 on my interest scale. If we had development and a little more time further south, it’d be a different story.
At any rate, looks like a nice potential rainmaker with some breezy conditions on the coast.
I haven’t really started looking until now but my quick thought is yes if it can get genesis going off the SC coast and over the Gulf Stream before lifting NE. In the whole scheme of things though it doesn’t look particularly impressive IMO.
It doesn’t look fully baroclinic to me on the GFS but maybe I’m wrong @CoastalWx @weatherwiz?
August is here, which means we’re just a few weeks away from the start of the climatological peak. A lot of talk around the MJO happens, and as we look at a potentially favorable window near mid-month, it might be helpful to have a primer on MJO.
I've been making a point to sleep (though work has been getting in the way) because I know it's impossible for me to get more than a few hours when a threat is on the table. Hopefully I can get in at least one more chase this season.
There's a good signal for late August to be active, which doesn't always happen. I'm expecting the peak to be well above average but just shy of hyperactive. IMO the SST profile in the MDR is the reason why. That said, the basin is heating up.
The photo is edited to remove some of the noise and contrast issues, but yeah, the Milky Way was clearly visible across the sky once the eyes adjusted to the darkness.
Last night’s wx was perfect too. I was able to head down to RI to do some stargazing. First time capturing images like this. The whole summer has sucked for doing anything like this so I’m glad I could make one night work.
The weather was perfect up here last night so I finally got a chance to go to a dark sky location and capture this.
Jupiter also makes an appearance as the brightest “star” in the image.
Considering I literally can’t sleep more than a few hours a night when the basin is hot, I’m trying to rest up as much as possible. Work does not help.