Autumn 2015 Weather Outlook

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And since autumn is the season for hurricanes in addition to fall foliage, the NOAA has made an update to its Atlantic hurricane season forecast:

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It looks as if Virginia is about to become ground zero for Hurricane Joaquin when it eventually makes landfall on Sunday, if the current track holds:

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A state of emergency has been declared in Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, as well as in the Carolinas.

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Looking like Hurricane Joaquin will increasingly become a fish storm once it departs the Bahamas -assuming it avoids hitting Bermuda, that is:

The amount of rainfall along the east coast the past few days has been pretty incredible.  As I speak it is a steady rain without interruption from DC to Boston.  

After that long dry spell we had from mid-July onward, it was rain we certainly needed.  

Check out the rainfall totals received so far in South Carolina:

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Here is what it looked like before the rains came:

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South Carolina Flooding: Obama Signs Disaster Declaration; Mandatory Evacuations Ordered; 11 Killed

By Sean Breslin
Published Oct 5 2015 10:07 PM EDT

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And here's how it all happened:

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Here is what it looked like before the rains came:

And after: