Attention returning to the tropics as TD 9 develops

We’re still mainly eying some ocean storms. Well, one former ocean storm since it’s sitting over land this morning. In addition to the Mid-Atlantic rain and coastal flooding, attention increasingly returns to the tropical Atlantic ahead.

Note: This is the last Weather Retort until September 29 — vacation time!

Weather Watch

Future Gabrielle. Tropical Depression 9 formed early Wednesday over the central Atlantic and it is forecast to become Gabrielle shortly. The storm will move northwest in the general direction of Bermuda while eventually becoming a powerful hurricane. It could be quite close to the island early next work week.

Mid-Atlantic low. Another day of dealing with our slow-moving storm system centered around the southeast Virginia coast early morning. It’s dropped up to 8.02 inches at Naval Air Station Virginia Beach, plus delivered coastal and tidal flooding that was as high as major in the Lynnhaven area just north of downtown Tuesday night. The storm will continue to toss showers into the region Wednesday, weaken in place and finally move off to the northeast over the next 24 hours.

Lightning links

How a dying tropical storm is impacting California lightning, rain risk. (Greg Porter, San Francisco Chronicle)

Severe storms slam the central US with pouring hail on Tuesday. (AccuWeather)

Strong winds at Mount St. Helens stirs up ash from 1980 eruption. (Daniel Peck, ABC)

PGA cancels season-opening Hawaii golf tournament due to ongoing drought. (Scott Sistek, Fox Weather)

Fat Bear Week Is Back: Who Prepared Best For Winter? (The Weather Channel)

(My own) vacation mini forecast

Headed north and east tomorrow, high pressure is forecast to build into Iceland where I’ll be until Sunday morning. My visit to the Blue Lagoon is looking chilly — highs in the mid-40s? — but perhaps fairly sunny.

I’m not ready to buy it just yet but models tend to mostly show high pressure dominating western and northern Europe during the week following. At that point I’ll be in Scotland, so I’d consider it some Celtic magic if so.

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