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Significant Heat in the Northwest U.S.; Tropical Rainfall Potential in the Southwest U.S.

A significant late season heat wave continues in the interior Pacific Northwest for at least one more day before easing somewhat Friday into Saturday. A combination of monsoonal moisture and tropical moisture ahead of tropical cyclone Lorena will bring a marginal to slight risk of excessive rainfall across the southwest U.S. through Saturday which may bring areas of flooding. Read More >

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KXMR Early AM Synoptic RAOB

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Routine early AM synoptic KXMR rawinsonde

Routine early AM synoptic Skew-T Log P diagram for KXMR (Cape Canaveral, Florida) weather balloon.  Mission support rawinsondes released from KXMR may be found with the link or drop down menu.

Y-axis is pressure in millibars.  Wind barbs are located to the right hand side of the diagram with speed in knots. Solid red line is temperature in Celcius. Dashed green line is dew point in Celcius.