More on the Way and Some Change in the Air

As people return to south Louisiana and Mississippi, they're finding a mess and a long wait for power restoration, and have been largely forgotten by the media. Meanwhile the tropics continue to cook up more storms. Tropical Storm Hannah may have struggled and appear relatively wimpy, but it's unwelcome excursion southward brought another onslaught of misery to northern Haiti. While it was stuck in an area of with no significant upper-level steering currents, it made an unusual cyclonic loop.


Further out, we have Ike and Josephine. In all probability, Josephine will be a "fish" storm that just spins around in the open ocean, and is not expected to intensify significantly anyway. Ike is another matter. After a dramatic period of intensification yesterday, it is expected to enter the less favorable environment that Hannah has struggled in. It will probably approach the Florida as a significant hurricane, but hopefully no longer as a Category 4 storm.

Meanwhile, central Mississippi had a bit of a change today. Not only did the sun finally come out for a while, but the first weak cold front of the fall pushed through. It's always nice to have dewpoints drop from the mid-70s to the mid-60s. Of course, the reality is that it won't last very long.