Great Weather Continues

There is a potent low pressure area just off the North Carolina coast, and it is buffetting the area from South Carolina to southern New England with high surf, strong, gusty onshore winds and areas of heavy rainfall.  It is the combined circulation around that low and a huge high pressure area over Nova Scotia that is serving to creat an especially strong wind field north of the surface low.  Whether or not that low develops tropical characteristics before moving inland tomorrow is kind of a moot point..either way it means some nasty weather. Meanwhile the feature that has been drenching Puerto Rico with flooding rains the past several days is finally moving northward into the Atlantic, and that system probably will develop into a tropical cyclone as it encounters the warm Gulf Stream waters later tonight and tomorrow.  Its main impact will remain just offshore.
That huge high I mentioned will basically remain in control here through the weekend with dry comfortable weather continuing.  But some of the clouds from the coastal low will spread into Alabama’s eastern counties tomorrow and then into central counties late tomorrow into Saturday.  By Sunday most of the clouds will be gone.