Noel...Where are you going?
In the short term for us at home Today...a weak cold front will roll through with a slight chance for a few showers. This front will cool the high temps back into the 50s on Friday. The big weather story is still Noel. As of this writing (8:30 AM) Noel was getting stronger and moving slowly and erratically...maybe drifting to the North. The Hurricane Center is banking on the storm getting picked up by the upper level trof that's moving across the East Coast right now....I'm not so sure. As a storm gets stronger, it tends to create its own environment. In other words, if Noel can get a little stronger, then it might help to re enforce the upper level ridge around it and not get swept away by this trof. If it gets left behind Today, then this storm will have to wait for the next trof on Saturday. In the short term, it could even drift back to the West a little. Bottom line...we should not write off Noel as a "fish" storm for the East Coast just yet. You'll notice that the Hurricane Center's forecast has even moved back to the West a little this morning...stay tuned.