2:36PM It’s very quiet locally. Nothing in the sky, and temperatures are very comfortable. On days like this, I enjoy watching airplanes.

10:25PM In Minnesota, I’ve certainly also noticed the leaves starting to turn. October always sneaks up on me.

4:30PM: We’ve made it to the end of September, and one last summerish severe weather outlook. There is a slight risk along the Texas dry line and into Kansas. There is even a tornado watch in Kansas tonight! I bet your favorite storm chasers are already on the scene.

4:45PM: The remnants of a tropical system are enhancing rain chances throughout the 4 Corners and even fueling a bit rainier than otherwise anticipated conditions in the Plains. With all that said, this color schema out of Southern California is confusing!

9:11PM Speaking of the remnants of Polo, I bet Houston wasn’t expecting that the only advisories related to a hurricane out of their office by this point in a season would come from a Pacific storm.

11:27PM: While we are obviously talking about the storm in New England, I want to note that again, we aren’t talking about much else, and the storm in New England is here too early in the season for snow.

12:31PM:

The Tropical map remains quiet. This is historic, we’ve never gone this deep into a tropical season without a hurricane, and Faye, a tropical storm bobbing in the central Atlantic, is on her way to oblivion. Will we get anything this year? Hopefully not!

11:43AM: IF you are a football fan, you probably enjoy a good snowy battle. How do you feel about rainy and drizzle? The Vikings play the Bears at noon.

3:32PM: There is a big ol’ thunderstorm cell along the Colorado/Kansas border. It will be dropping some big hail, some outflow winds and a complicated array of severe thunderstorm warnings.

11:55PM: Here’s something you never get to say…. Let’s go to the radar in Pocatello!

There is a severe warning for the city, hail is a remote possibility, but downdraft and outflow seem more destructive, potentially.

2:21PM: Here is an interesting dynamic. In eastern Washington, there are flood watches and advisories for the region, thanks to some steady shower activity. Meanwhile, in Oregon, there are forecasts and advisories counting for low water levels in the western part of the state. One hopes the water in eastern Washington will see water flow downstream towards the Oregon coast.

11:14PM: There was rain in the forecast from several outlets for Morristown, and it if happened, it’s gone now. Very dry tonight in Tennessee.

11:19pm: The last whimpers of rain are winding down in the Appalachians. There will be some real storms, albeit briefly, in northern Minnesota tomorrow afternoon, in the event you are in the mood for radar watching.

10:14AM: There are two very similar, ongoing tragedies in the world right now that you may have been hearing about. The flash floods in both the Himalayas and the Grand Canyon have a couple of similarities. Notably, the flash flooding was enhanced greatly by the terrain, with water funneling into one course (the Trishuli and Colorado Rivers, respectively) and the suffering has been continued because in both areas, it is the monsoon season. The origins are different beyond that, including a seismic event and glacial collapse along the Nepalese border with China, and in Arizona, it has been a matter of persistent, torrential rains. The take away for me, for right now, is to respect flash flood warnings when they are issued for your area. They are very geographically specific, and as we have been reminded, flash floods can have devastating consequences.

1:50PM: Following up on an item from yesterday: It is presently 101 degrees in Wichita.