THIS WEEKEND:We’re starting out partly cloudy with temps mostly in the 60s across the region. Today, we’ll see partly cloudy skies with a pop-up shower possible and afternoon highs in the mid to upper 80s. Sunday, we contineu to stay mainly dry with lots of sunshine and highs near 90.
NEXT WEEK:We’ll start out the week dry and a little warm with afternoon highs in the mid to upper 80s on Monday, but all eyes will be on Potential Tropical Cyclone Nine. PTS9 is expected to become a hurricane early-week, but there is quite a bit of uncertainty with it’s long-term track. Does it move inland, does it move further away from the coast, does it become stationary off the coast? There are a number of possible scenarios. Although we could see some isolated showers, the impacts locally should be very minimal with a few breezy days, but the majority of any rain should stay east of Columbus. Highs by the end of the week should transition to upper 70s to low 80s as a northeast wind brings in some cooler air.
TROPICS:Currently there are 2 storms in the Atlantic. First, Hurricane Humberto is currently a Category 4 storm, but is expected to strengthen to Category 5 over the weekend. Good news is, it will stay over the open Atlantic with no impacts to the continental U.S. Then there’s Potential Tropical Cyclone Nine, expected to become a tropical storm this weekend, and a hurricane by early next week. As we mentioned earlier, there is some uncertainty long-term with this system. Local impacts will be minimal at best, but isolated showers could be the result based on the track and location of PTS9…