Good Evening,
Taking a look across the US, we see a few items of concern, first the severe weather over the Plains, look for this to continue on Friday with the main threat being straight line wind damage along with some heavy rainfall. The main area of concern will be from Iowa southward into Missouri and over towards Western TN. A few severe storms will also be possible over Kansas and Oklahoma.
Second big issue continues to be the Air Quality from the fires in the west, we will continue to see Air Quality alerts for Friday over a good portion of the Northwest US from Seattle to Boise and into Montana.
Third, stop takes us into the Atlantic Tropics, we have seen a rather quite (El-Nino) style season, however we now are keeping a close eye on Tropical Storm Erika as it continues to track west-northwestward through the Lee-ward islands tonight, right now tracks continue to favor a west-northwest to a slightly more northwest turn in the forecast period. This puts Florida in line to possibly be dealing with a tropical early next week, right now intensities are for it to be a strong tropical storm to possibly a CAT 1 hurricane. Right now some key factors still needing to be watched are of course the Bermuda Azores High, the dry air that continues to keep it weaker, and the strong upper level wind shear that is being pushed across courtesy of El-Nino, with all these factors, we will continue to watch later developments, right now if you live from Miami Florida northward into Jacksonville FL or Southeast GA and South Carolina, you need to be preparing yourself for possible tropical impacts early next week.
Enjoy your evening,
Chief Meteorologist
Joshua Kelly
Dakota Weather Consultants
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