Is It Still October? Whew!

Here is another nice picture from Daniel Siller showing The Passage fountains. Ross's Landing and Coolidge Park were busy places this past weekend, with GoFest, The Memory Walk, and the TACA show going on. And wow was it warm.
I know it's early October, but 87 yesterday is a whopping 10 degrees above average. And we'll be very close to that for the next three days.
There is some relief by the end of the week. A front should push through ushering in some cooler air again.
The question is rainfall.
A tropical wave will be approaching Florida from the east the next couple of days. It's moving into an area that will be favorable for developing this wave into a named storm. The next name on the list is "Tammy". If that happens it will be the first time since 1995 we have had a "T" named storm. ("Stan" was named over the weekend and is located near the Yucatan peninsula. "Stan" should head into the central Mexican coast.) We'll watch this system to see how it impacts our rainfall amounts. As our front approaches, we should see at least some scattered storms Thursday and early Friday. But if this system develops and heads far enough north we may see higher rainfall amounts. This may be grasping at straws, but we really could use some soaking rain and all summer long our best rainfall amounts have been fringe effects from tropical systems. So we wait and see.
No matter what happens rain-wise, this time around the cooler temps should stick around into the upcoming weekend, and maybe well into next week.