My Name is Earl?

With a lack of weather expected in our region for the next week (after that frontal passage later today) I'll probably be spending a lot more time talking about tropical storms for the next little while...and Mother Nature is really providing a lot of content. Summer may be winding down but the Atlantic hurricane season is just starting to heat up and you'll likely be hearing the name Danielle a whole bunch over the weekend. After becoming a little disorganized and being downgraded to tropical storm status, Danielle is once again a category 1 hurricane and is continuing to push west. The latest models show this storm getting picked up by the "Bermuda High" (a semi-permanent area of high pressure that sits out in the Atlantic east of Florida) which will eventually steer this storm along a more northerly track up the east coast...although safely offshore. Danielle will likely pass just east of Bermuda and later regain strength in the relatively warm water of the "Gulf Stream." This could be bad for Newfoundland as some of the models show this storm pushing dangerously close to "The Rock." The image above is where Danielle is expected to be by Monday morning so I'll be keeping tabs on the latest data as she continues her trek. I'll also be keeping an eye on another storm (TD7) continuing to strenghten out in the Atlantic that will likely develop into a tropical storm named Earl later today.