I'm late to start this year, but it has some interesting events. H. Douglas stayed offshore Hawaiian islands which was pretty darn lucky. Atlantic TS Isaias rained on Puerto Rico but I missed catching the doppler rain totals. Isaias is now a hurricane and may stay offshore Florida's east side. Predictions for Atlantic hurricane season were all above average I think.
As I have bashed MA for having positive testing above 10%, allow me to amend that. Since June 7, positive tests have been below 5%, More recently most days have been below 3%. That state is doing testing very well and that is also something to be thankful for. Overall too-high value of that metric came from inadequate early testing and they fixed it. Maybe I should move this to the appropriate thread. I'll take @bisco 's advice on that
Have a look at the rain prediction for DC area: TROPICAL STORM ISAIAS Looks like they're gon na need better drainage
we dodged a bullet, didn't even see any trees down on our walk this morning. there are some localized outages in the region, but nothing serious fortunately. only had 1/4" of rain. no tornadoes reported that i saw. our daughter is in the catskills, power is going to be out for a few days, it went right through albany.
I did not post pre-season 2020 Atl storm predictions but here are August updates (named storms, hurricanes, major hurricanes) NOAA – 19 to 25, 7 to 11, 3 to 6 CSU – 24, 12, 5 Both are higher than average years.
