Heat is back in the Northeast and Atlantic preps long-track cyclone

Heat is back in the Northeast this week after a sustained break. Elsewhere, the tropics continue to do what they do heading into peak season. Flooding is also peppering the land.

Weather watch

Northeast heat. The most unusually high pressure aloft in our neck of the woods is currently over the Northeast, with a Bermudalike high also covering the Southeast out into the Atlantic. Records should be most numerous in New England and adjacent Canada as temperatures rise well into the 90s. Widespread heat alerts remain in effect in the Western States, as well.

Tropics. Might need to dedicate a daily bullet to this going forward as a long-track tropical cyclone gets its act together near the Cabo Verde Islands of the eastern Atlantic Ocean. It is expected to gain a name relatively soon and will probably become the basin’s first hurricane of the year as it continues to churn westward while still many days away from even thinking about any threat to land. Other systems may also form in the basin, and the Pacific has a hurricane north of Hawaii in Henriette, while Ivo wanders into cooler waters west of Mexico.

Lightning links

When to catch the Perseids, the year’s best meteor shower. (Me, The Washington Post)

Fire officials deploy more tankers to battle western wildfires. (Mark Moran, UPI)

Record warm seas help to bring extraordinary new species to UK waters. (Mark Poynting and Justin Rowlatt, BBC)

Monday morning weather maps (more flooding edition)

Major rains swamped Wisconsin Saturday, including in and around Milwaukee where the Milwaukee River reached record flood stage early Sunday. The flooding prompted a state of emergency in the city.

It was an 0.01-0.05% odds kind of rainfall in the hardest hit spots, the latest in a series of them this summer across the Lower 48.

Another round of heavy rainfall targeted Kansas, Nebraska and other portions of the Plains Sunday.

The Weather Prediction Center is highlighting the southern Plains for Monday, as the responsible cold front slowly shifts somewhat east. Other zones of flooding are possible along the Southeast coast.

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