Heat and Hurricanes

Not much has changed with this weather pattern since last week. The big story around here continues to be the unbearable heat. Again, not much relief is seen in the near future; it seems like the only relief we can look for will come in the form of some afternoon pop-up thunderstorms, which only gives us very low rain chances. It looks like our high temperatures will remain in the lower 90's through much of next week, but hopefully we can get some of those thunderstorms to cool us down just a little.

Looking more at the big picture now.....as you all probably know, another category 5 hurricane named Felix made landfall on Tuesday near extreme northeastern Nicaragua. This was the second category 5 hurricane to strike Central America in just over a 2 week period. Hurricane Dean made its first landfall as a category 5 hurricane near Costa Maya on August 20th, then made a second landfall as a category 2 hurricane near Tecolutla, Veracruz on August 22nd. Currently, there is another low pressure system that is basically stalled out near Bermuda, but shear and the presence of dry air have really kept this thing from doing much developing. Forecasters are not looking for this trend to continue, and are still looking for further development before this system moves towards land.