Neil Young once stated It’s better to burn out than to fade away. Don’t tell that to Hermine—the messy swirl of tropical leftovers south of New England today. Here is what she looked like mid afternoon:
About what you would expect a post-tropical storm to look like after a few days around these parts. Essentially, there are two ways to create a storm on planet Earth…..warm ocean water evaporates into the air as water vapor & the heat stored is latent heat…leading to tropical storm/hurricane development. The other way a storm forms (and maintains itself) is thriving off temperature differences (winters storms are great examples of this…ocean temps in the 40s while air temps inland are often in the teens, 20s–what a difference!) As of this evening, Hermine has neither of these processes to work with. Translation….she’ cooked.
She will continue to swirl about south of New England tomorrow before fading away early Thursday morning. Plan on a little more sunshine tomorrow but also a continued risk of a shower or two. By Thursday, skies are partly to mostly sunny and we begin to warm things up. This map here shows building heat west of New England:
It also shows Hermine’s swirl south of New England. Once she leaves the east coast/fades away, that region of High Pressure up near the jet stream level –noted by the pinkish/red circle over Arkansas, Louisiana–will head this way and when that happens, these temps will follow:
Those were the temps at 5pm…quite warm. Plan on sun & clouds with summertime heat & humidity for the end of the week and into the start of the weekend. Temps should approach 90 both Friday and again on Saturday for the region. Slightly cooler temps arrive for Sunday & Monday. Sure hope summer fades away before my window AC unit burns out.
~JR