Both Coasts Cool Down!

Both Coasts Cool Down (courtesy Unisys Weather)

A cold and windy storm is headed into the Great Lakes Region. Frost Advisories are posted for five states, including Michigan, Minnesota, North and South Dakota, and Nebraska. Click on the state name for your local TV forecast. Record heat across the Southwest will be replaced by temperatures 20-30 degrees cooler by Tuesday. Las Vegas will go from a high near 100 degrees today to a high of 75 by Wednesday! The upper air image from Unisys Weather above depicts the forecast for Tuesday night.

Still hot across portions of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah. The tropics are quiet. I’m reading up on the latest issue of BAMS, the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. It has an artical regarding the Saharan Air Layer, SAL for short, and the development of tropical cyclones or hurricanes. For the last several years, scientists have been studying whether the SAL, and the dust that comes with it, keeps tropical disturbances from growing or intensifying into hurricanes. It’s an interesting read, I’ll let you know what I find out tomorrow, (I’m still deep into it.)

Have a great Monday.

-Dawn Brown