Tropics Update - Sunday Evening 8/1

It still looks like this disturbance will eventually become Colin in the next day or two. The track for the next three days should be WNW, though it could start to make a slight right turn by day four or five. It's still too early to start forecasting where it might make landfall. We'll have more updates in the coming days.

New Record For Largest Hailstone

Weighing almost two pounds and boasting an 18.625 circumference, the enormous hailstone that fell Vivian, South Dakota on July 23rd is now the largest ever recorded. You can find out more here:

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/abr/?n=stormdamagetemplate

Colin Could Form Soon

The tropical wave in the central Atlantic looks more disorganized this afternoon than it did at this time yesterday. However, latest data continues to show this system strengthening into a tropical storm within a day. It still too far away to speculate where this storm will eventually make landfall, but it will stay on its WNW course for at least another three to four days.

It's Official

This past July ended up being the hottest ever in recorded history. The average temperature (highs and lows combined) was 82.8, which was very close to the hottest month ever...trailing only August of 1900.

Rain Totals - Last 24 Hours

Here are last night's totals estimated from radar.