?If you thought *Summer* would never end, especially since we are well into

*Fall*, you will be as happy as I am to tell you by next Thursday we will

have dropped from the 90/65 range to 74/52? range of temperatures. Light

jacket/sweater weather?....Real Football temps!

 

We have an Arctic cold front building and heading in our direction bringing

us a Normal series of Fall temps. We will see some light rain with the

fronts entry into Deep East Texas.

 

 

For the third day in a row, the Atlantic had no named tropical cyclones on

Tuesday. Such a statement wouldn’t seem unusual had it not been for the

turbo-charged period from late August through September. This frenetic

interval produced six hurricanes, including five major hurricanes and four

that reached Category 4 or 5 strength. In Atlantic data going back to 1851,

September set a record for the most amount of accumulated cyclone energy in

any month—175, beating out 155 from September 1926—according to Phil

Klotzbach (Colorado State University).

 

Klotzbach also reports these records set in September:

 

Number of named-storm days:  53.25 (old record 52.25, Sept. 2004)

Number of hurricane days:  40.25 (old record 34.50, Sept. 2006)

Number of major hurricane days:  18 (old record 17.25, Sept. 1961)

 

Each of these tallies includes the total number of days at each strength

level for each storm of the month.

 

 

Light shear, toasty waters means we need to keep a close watch on a

tropical low developing in the caribbean off Honduras. It looks like it

will develop into a named storm as it moves into the warm Gulf and right

now looks to make landfall somewhere between Louisiana and Florida. Global

models have been hinting at this possibility for days, and it’s a

climatologically favored progression.

 

 

I am setting up another SkyWarn Training & Certification class and hope to

have a date from the Shreveport folks today or tomorrow.  The past 2-3

years has involved a number of changes in emergency and first response

personnel in the Deep East Texas area. And, several individuals who could

not attend other sessions we have held have requested the additional

training session to be held. This will be a combined Basic & Advanced

session.

 

A reminder: it is NOT to make you a Storm Chaser. Our emergency

first responders like fire departments, law enforcement, ambulance

services, ham operators, emergency coordinators, electric, gas, and water

personnel are the prime audience as they are the feet on the street during

severe weather related emergencies. The Storm Spotter training will be open

to all who wish to participate from San Augustine, Shelby, Sabine, Jasper,

Angelina, Nacogdoches and other counties in the Deep East Texas Region. San

Augustine is a good central point for those not local to partake of the

training.