Early morning thunder

I was briefly in Ontario yesterday, catching the last 10 minutes of the Upper Canada Village car show near Morrisburg. The weather was humid and breezy but the turnout was good. I was dismayed by the number of trees beginning to change color across upstate NY and eastern Ontario. I am not quite ready to give up on summer.

A very narrow line of heavy thunderstorms moved through the Montreal and upstate New York region between 6 and 7am this morning. The storms skirted Montreal with intense lightning and thunder, but little else. We remain under a severe thunderstorm watch until 10am, but at the moment radar is clear to the west of the city. The storms are a result of a cold front that is slipping across southern Quebec and eastern Ontario. Drier air will begin to slowly move in over the course of the day with increasing northwest winds and lowering humidity. The balance of the week looks warm and dry for our entire region.

Tropical depression 5 has been meandering across the south central Gulf coast for most of this past week. The system is now back out in the open waters of the Gulf just south of Panama City. Circulation and convection is beginning to increase and the system could become a tropical storm during the next day or two. The system bears close watching.