Drier; A Taste of Fall

The remnants of Sally have shifted off the NC coast and a strong Canadian high pressure cell centered over the Northeast will be ridging into the area over the weekend. The only fly in the ointment is a canopy of occasionally-opaque high cloudiness that will be streaming overhead through Saturday.



After that, bright sunshine returns for Sunday and beyond. We expect the coolest mornings to be Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.



The tropics continue to be very active. With Sally gone, the powerful category-four Hurricane Teddy is the big bully on the block. Teddy is expected to pass near or just east of Bermuda late in the weekend, before impacting Atlantic Canada next week. Tropical Depression #22 is in the southern Gulf of Mexico and will be meandering for days. Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Wilfred was just named and is expected to slowly trek northwest through the central Atlantic. A couple more tropical waves in the eastern Tropical Atlantic stand a chance at development over the next week. In fact, Subtropical Storm Alpha was just named this afternoon and we have exhausted the standard list of names for the 2020 Hurricane season. Now the naming has moved into the Greek alphabet. Alpha sits just off the coast of Portugal and will move northeast into Portugal and Spain Saturday.