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Pattern Ablazing August

GaWx said:
If ablazing August means ablazed in rainfall, we're getting it nicely today with a heavy thunderstorm as a band goes through. We already have some of the typical street flooding. Before this, we were already near 1.5" in August to date. We're easily over 2" MTD now. About 9" last month. No drought worries at all here.
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Even here in DFW, we're -3.3*F below normal for August to-date.
 
I have driven from Joshua Tree NP to Valley of Fire State Park, which is located to the northeast of Las Vegas. Drove across the Mojave Desert. That was an experience. Car thermometer hit 114 going through there. Blown away by Valley of Fire State Park. It was “ablazing” there as the pic below shows. (And no … I am not how certain how accurate the car thermometer is, but it is hot!) With breeze feels like opening the oven door. Again, no humidity to speak of. Very “cool” experience … forgive the pun!

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Picked up 1.33 inches over night! Much needed!
 
SD said:
Looks like if nothing else the moisture envelope from the tropical system makes its way into the region over the weekend should be decent storm coverage Friday through Monday
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No I want a Cat 5. Ideally , we get this tropical storm , it dumps a ton of rain , then in 2 weeks we get a major hurricane that dumps a ton of rain with nasty wind , that’s followed by another tropical storm that stalls out over us with a cold front and dumps record rainfall again. Just imagine . Half the state would not exist anymore .
 
Lickwx said:
No I want a Cat 5. Ideally , we get this tropical storm , it dumps a ton of rain , then in 2 weeks we get a major hurricane that dumps a ton of rain with nasty wind , that’s followed by another tropical storm that stalls out over us with a cold front and dumps record rainfall again. Just imagine . Half the state would not exist anymore .
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Thanks ?
 
SD said:
Looks like if nothing else the moisture envelope from the tropical system makes its way into the region over the weekend should be decent storm coverage Friday through Monday
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Looks like with the approaching cold front and tropical system (obviously dependent on where that tropical system goes) there could be some pretty good wash out days which I might add would keep us in the 70s as well and dump very decent rains over everyone .. next week looking interesting
 
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Lickwx said:
Hot summer at 500mb. Must be nice I’ve been wudged all summer !
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Here is July 1-Aug 1 much more of a normal temp look. Either way with the ridge centers to our north west and north east not much of a way to get that hot. The clear signal has been the ridge centers to our north which becomes problematic over the next 6 weeks in relation to hurricanes especially since we are going into a another June through early July setupcompday.VCyobNKOVI (1).gif
 
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SD said:
Here is July 1-Aug 1 much more of a normal temp look. Either way with the ridge centers to our north west and north east not much of a way to get that hot. The clear signal has been the ridge centers to our north which becomes problematic over the next 6 weeks in relation to hurricanes especially since we are going into a another June through early July setupView attachment 87806
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Do you know where to go to get current SST’s. Obviously we’ve been looking at the overall pattern this summer and have seen that has progressed in a way that would favor SE hits as we get into peak season. The other piece obviously is water temps and just how much energy is available… how are they compared to the last few years?
 
Chazwin said:
Do you know where to go to get current SST’s. Obviously we’ve been looking at the overall pattern this summer and have seen that has progressed in a way that would favor SE hits as we get into peak season. The other piece obviously is water temps and just how much energy is available… how are they compared to the last few years?
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I don't have a good link especially for historic data I just use the stuff from tropical tidbits
 
SD said:
I don't have a good link especially for historic data I just use the stuff from tropical tidbits
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I’ve always wanted to find the heat content link . That’s much more revealing than SST. How deep does the warm water go so if a hurricane moves through will it have a rich source of warm water or just shallow stuff they gets easily upwelled .
 
Lickwx said:
I’ve always wanted to find the heat content link . That’s much more revealing than SST. How deep does the warm water go so if a hurricane moves through well it have a rich source of warm water or just shallow stuff they gets easily upwelled .
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That’s actually what I was looking for. Weatherbell used to have a link for it, but I can’t find it anymore.
 
Lickwx said:
I’ve always wanted to find the heat content link . That’s much more revealing than SST. How deep does the warm water go so if a hurricane moves through will it have a rich source of warm water or just shallow stuff they gets easily upwelled .
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This is out there

Since it's in kJ/cm-2 and that doesn't mean a lot to me I just assume high good for strong storms low is bad
 
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