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Currently @1:48 AM tmp 55F, dp 53F, prs 1019mb, calm, 100% stratus. Another beautiful cloudy day in Scranton. The low pressure system that was in the eastern parts of Texas is moving more towards the north of east than I thought would happen. This has rapidly pushed a warm front up the east coast. Overnight, temperatures will slowly rise towards the 60F mark by sunrise. Rain will move in during the morning. However, this rain won't be steady. As is common with being south of a warm front the atmosphere is more unstable leading towards more scattered showers and maybe even t-storms. It will feel uncomfortably warm to people like myself who love the cold. If you wanted to shorts and a t-shirt would work fine tommorrow. After this low moves northeastward through the Ohio Valley and Southeastern Canada the cold front will swing through later Friday night with only slightly cooler readings. Even though there was a great deal of cold air throughout the plains, this isn't going to make it over the Appalachians plus it's modified some. Who knows when the cold air will finally start pouring into the East. The ski-resorts are probably doing snow dances by now, it's ridiculous. Next week down't hint at any signifcantly colder air. Soon, it's going to come down here and everyone is not going to know what hit them. Lots of cold air is building up in Canada as we speak.

As for most-likely the last tropical system in the Atlantic, Olga, it has been downgraded too a Tropical Storm. There's been some significant shear and it looks unimpressive on satellite images. Current winds are only around 50mph at best. The weird thing is that if this system was located where it is during September, most likely it'd be a blackbuster. Florida will eventually feel some residual effects from Olga, howeever, nothing significant. This hurricane season went down as the 4th most active in recorded history. That's really not saying much as recorded history only goes back a little over 100 years. I'm certain that there were years prior to the late 19th century when many more hurricanes formed in the Atlantic. One reason would be that the Sahara Desert was by far much smaller than it is today. Also, much of Africa's trees were undisturbed at that time. That would have meant much more rain for the continent leading towards more active systems moving westerward across the Interconvergence Zone..if that's the correct way to say it. Anyways...check back again for more updates everyone....This weekend is going to kick ass. On Saturday Chuck and I are going to visit Shawn, QDog, and Dave to celebrate Shawn and Q's 21st!!! Sweet, lots of peoples will be there...Ev...8^)