The warm air can be moved to the south for awhile by Canadian air but it's still August and the southern air will be back; today's the day it has returned with a wet vengeance. Almost 2" of rain have fallen so far as we close in on the mid-day August 18 and while not torrential it is steady, still. Temperatures, low since Wednesday's cold front blew in, remain in the low 60's. It just doesn't feel like August in Virginia. That will change as we get into the next week with the rain leaving and the heat and humidity building back in. Mid to upper 80's by the middle of this week but the long range forecast has more cool air back by next weekend. The mild, lovely, wet summer (and year) of 2013 continues over much of the east coast.
Tropical Storm/depression Erin looks to be breaking apart in the middle of the Atlantic and poses no threat to anything but ships not paying attention. A disorganized group of storms off the Yucatan, drifting into the Gulf of Mexico is not looking like it will become a named storm. The slow hurricane season has been shut down by strong high pressure over the Sahara, sending dust all the way across the Atlantic and if winds will carry dust that far (and they always have) it doesn't help in storm formation.
School is back in at Louisa Co. HS and the cool weather has been helpful in adjusting to our mid-summer return. The ground breaking ceremony for the new high school on Wednesday will fall two days short of the 2 year anniversary of the 5.8 magnitude quake that broke our old building. It will be nice to see a new structure going up as opposed to watching the old one come down as we did last fall.
The moon is waxing gibbous, Venus still rules the west at dusk but Saturn is closing in on our planetary twin. The other planets are up much later or only visible near sunrise. The Perseid shower was clouded out mostly here in Va.
The rains will stop by Tuesday, and it's pretty nice out there for August. Get out and enjoy today on Earth.
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