Monsoon's Weather Forecast and Hassel-chat
My good people,
Before I get to the weather, allow me to indulge in a bit of brief Hoff-related chitchat. In point of fact, David Hasselhoff is poised to make a powerful statement about his versatility, his star quality, his ichweissnicht (je ne sais quoi, auf Deutsch) in the coming months.
Just under two weeks ago, The Hoff was “roasted” memorably, if crudely, on Comedy Central.
Beginning in September, he will compete on the upcoming season of “Dancing with the Stars.” (Big ups to Mo and Nicole for scooping even me on this story!) This is a show I’ve never watched, save when Ozomatli performed live on one of the episodes. But rumored participants in this season’s competition, aside from Mikhail Baryshnik-hoff, include Audrina from “The Hills,” The Situation from “Jersey Shore,” Bristol Palin, Octomom, Brandy, and Michael Bolton. (Is it “Dancing with the Stars” or “Dancing with the Has-Beens and Never-Wases”? I mean, aside from The David, of course.) Not to mix metaphors, but that’s what I call an irresistible train wreck of biblical proportions.
And finally, his A&E reality show, elegantly titled “The Hasselhoffs,” premieres in December.
My “live blogging” during the Hoff Roast was a success, so I was thinking of bringing it back for DWTS and/or the A&E show. Thoughts?
Alright, enough of that. It’s time for…
the weather:
Weather narrative: Here at the end of summer (at least for those of us in the education field), the weather has been rather nice: highs in the 70s to low 80s with low humidity. Friday and Saturday should also be quite pleasant, as temperatures will be only moderately above normal and humidity will remain low.
The final heat wave of the summer will begin Sunday, the first of five straight days with high temperatures 90 or above. A relatively low dewpoint and light north and northwest breezes should make things much more tolerable than during other heat waves this summer, when heat indices soared above 100 for days at a time. But still, damned hot.
Things start to moderate toward next weekend, and conditions will be about normal for this time of year.
In terms of tropical storms, Hurricane Danielle is strengthening, but will deal only a glancing blow to Bermuda before heading back out to sea. I’m more interested in Earl, which is currently a tropical storm but looks as though it will intensify into at least a category 3 hurricane. Some models are suggesting that Earl could make landfall along the eastern seaboard, perhaps in our area, around 9/5. Stay tuned for updates.
A return of the heat and humidity will be an unwelcome visitor around the middle of the following week (9/7 and 9/8), but I think that will be short-lived.
Future weather: As we head toward the end of that week (9/9 and 9/10), the humidity will break with some strong thunderstorms and conditions will be drastically cooler. Highs will be in the 70s and lows in the lower 50s.
Winter sneak-peek: There has been a good bit of talk already that we’re going to have a harsh winter. Just today I was talking with Amy about the quantity and girth of acorns on many lawns right about now. As it turns out, extreme heat and humidity during a summer can beget larger and more plentiful acorns, which in turn can be a harbinger of a severe winter. That’s Farmer’s Almanac stuff, there, but there could be some truth in it.
I will, of course, release a comprehensive winter forecast sometime in November. But my preliminary investigation has yielded some sense of what I think we’re in for: late November and December are colder than normal; January thaws; February is frigid; winter temperatures last into March and even early April, with wild fluctuations in between. In terms of wintry precipitation, I don’t see a repeat of the “snowmageddon” of 2009-2010, but a series of smaller snow events, ice storms, and the like, which can be just as dangerous, if not more.
Again, this is a thumbnail sketch; much more detail to come.
I hope everyone has a fantastic 2010-2011 school year!