Today looks like a great day for late August!  We started the day with morning lows in the 50s across the area… sort of felt a little like fall:

This afternoon, we’ll see a lot of sunshine and some fair weather clouds.  The sun will help to warm us into the upper 70s.  Pleasantly warm!

High pressure will move off to our east on Tuesday, allowing winds to shift in from the south-southwest.  This will usher in warmer air, and we’re expecting highs in the low-to-mid 80s on Tuesday and Wednesday.

There’s no great rain chance this week, although a cold front will be dropping down late Wednesday:

There is not a lot of moisture with the front, so precip will be scattered at best.  Keep watering!

In tropical news, Bill is now a Tropical Storm, and it continues to move away from the US… back out to sea.  It’s losing the characteristics of a tropical cyclone, but winds are still up around 70 mph.  Over the weekend, Bill’s strong winds churned up waves that were blamed in the deaths of at least two people on the East Coast.

A 7-year-old girl died in Maine after she, her father and a 12-year-old girl were swept into the water Sunday off Acadia National Park’s Thunder Hole, where tourists often gather to watch waves crash into a crevasse and make a thundering sound while splashing high in the air.

In New Smyrna Beach along the central Florida coast, a 54-year-old swimmer died after he was washed ashore unconscious near rough waves fueled by Bill. The man, was pronounced dead at a hospital.

Jamie