DWG DIGEST

The weather/climate for the general area.

THE WEEK AHEAD

Well, it’s nice to be back. Sorry if you felt I was being delinquent in my duties but I was in Maine!  

I’m posting a picture of what I think a typical Maine scene looks like. The weather was fine but ever-changing. When you are on an island the weather changes every thirty minutes. The sun goes in behind the clouds, the sun bursts open as well as the skies turn bright blue.  Yet, we got no rain the whole trip. 

Okay, the week ahead here looks “Fine”. I mean it’s kind of vague to say that but there is nothing in the forecast that is significant. Some of the heat will come back by mid-week like the humidity aspect. However, it won’t be as muggy as the previous week. Dew points will be in the high 60’s and low 70’s. That’s fairly comfortable.  Potentially, there is a coastal system for Tuesday/Wednesday, but that looks like it might just fly way off the coast and not even come close to impacting us.  

Each day this week, as you can see, there is the potential for some spotty rain and that could be the case, but it will not hurt your plans at all. 

Next! 

Week Ahead Planner

SPEAKING OF RAIN THIS SUMMER……

We have had 27 inches of rain/snow this year.  Most of the precipitation has been in the form of rain. Probably, in the area of 15-18 inches of rain.  We have had 9 inches of rain just since June 1st. Yet, we are down about an inch overall. So, this isn’t too much of a worry as far as a drought, but you don’t want to keep running a rain deficit in the summer, or by the Fall we could be yearning for some kind of relief.   Use your water hose conservatively. Honestly, we don’t use our hose for our yards. The grass is grass. In the Northeast, yards turn brown in the Summer, but Mother Nature will take care of the lawns. Use your water for something more critical, like drinking from it on a hot day! COLD WATER!! :} 

TROPICAL UPDATE

Nothing. In the Atlantic at least.  The Gulf of Mexico is a little busy. 

This is the current depression low that is circulating out in the Gulf of Mexico impacting SE Texas border between Corpus Christi and Brownsville. For a low/depression, it’s an impressive system that if it were still in the Gulf a couple of hundred miles away

could have formed into a formidable tropical system. Right now, it’s just a lot of rain in these areas. 

In the Atlantic, there is plenty of possibilities, but it’s really DRY AIR! Dry air limits the convection of the storms and basically eats away at thunderstorm growth and clouds. That isn’t the only reason, but it’s a large one. 

Small Depression in the Gulf of Mexico

Dry air in the Atlantic off the coast of Africa is threatening storm development.