The latest 7-day QPF map shows that rainfall across the Southeast should be lighter this week and next, although there will be periods of scattered rain. The driest part of next week will be today through Tuesday, with showers returning to northern GA and AL and the Southern Appalachians overnight Tuesday into Wednesday morning. Those showers will spread south later in the week and we can expect some rain through the weekend. Another dry period looks like it will start the following week for a couple of days before rain returns again. The wettest areas will be southern Florida as well as South Carolina and eastern North Carolina, which surely does not need more rain after Debby this past week.
As of Saturday morning there is one area of disturbed weather in the tropics, currently called Investigation 98L. This will likely develop into a named storm in the next week but nearly all the models indicate that it will turn north and stay away from land, so I don’t consider it something to worry about. We can expect to see more frequent tropical storms later this month and into September but it will take a while before we are likely to see much more direct influence.
