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This satellite shows an enormous vortex. It has dumped huge amounts of water in the eastern third of the country causing flooding. People were left without electricity in some places. There was also disruption in transportation.
September 30, 2020
By Isabel Keane
After a night (click here) of heavy rainfall, residents of the Lower Hudson Valley should expect some delays and road closures today due to flooding and downed wires.
Across Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties nearly 10,000 customers were left without power from strong overnight storms.
While many local parkways tend to flood, minor closures on the Bronx River Parkway were cleared by 8 a.m., Westchester County police said.
A tractor-trailer rollover on Interstate 95 in New Rochelle that occurred around midnight had two southbound lanes of the Thruway blocked overnight, but that crash was cleared by 8 a., state police said.
Those taking Metro-North Railroad today may also experience delays due to the weather. The Harlem Line is delayed up to 30 minutes due to a downed tree, the MTA said.
With increasing heat, carbon, and particulate release in the western USA, the Gulf is becoming active again. It is also easy to see the vortex is a heat transfer system off the Equator. The bottom shows the hemispheric vortex reaching past the North American and South American borders into the Pacific Ocean.
7:19 am EST
NOAA Satellite
1. A tropical wave located over the west-central Caribbean Sea is expected to move westward over the next couple of days and interact with a frontal system, producing a broad area of low pressure over the western Caribbean Sea by Thursday night or Friday. Environmental conditions are forecast to be conducive for some development thereafter, and a tropical depression could form over the weekend while the system moves slowly west-northwestward over the northwestern Caribbean Sea.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...10 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...medium...60 percent.
The newest fires are in South Dakota and Nebraska. This movement east is worrisome especially because with higher winds in the Midwest and West is basically still.
September 30, 2020
By Toni Dreibus
Weather maps (click here) in North Dakota and South Dakota are lit up as a red-flag warning, extreme fire danger warnings, and wind advisories have been issued, according to the National Weather Service....
The 2020 harvest is underway. It is going fairly well this year.The USA's weather nearly divides the country in half when it comes to drought. The eastern half is receiving huge amounts of water with the persistent storms, while the western half is in profound drought.
The harvest is currently facilitated with the dry weather.
