That trough south of Alaska is going to pump that ridge over ya. Hopefully the pattern changes, we know models can flip fast this time of year.

Today is Day 5 of the record breaking Heat Wave and today will be the HOTTEST day of this streak (115-116F). It is currently 85F at 6:02am as the daylight begins to emerge to me east. The orangish glow along the horizon with clear skies could trick me into thinking its a mid July morning. It certainly felt like it when I went out on my deck to look up into the night sky and see the Big Dipper earlier this morning. The models continue to extend and build this Heat Wave into next week and we literally are crushing record high temps every...single....Day! When will we break this Heat? I'll take a deeper look into this later this morning.

This sex trafficking issue is bigger than a wall which would take many more years and still not be effective. We all agree border security is an issue. No one wants children to be used in this way. But its an ugly reality of humanity. It way happens too often by Americans as well. Yes... the border should be secured. Even Kamala was at the border yesterday making that point. And I don't buy that she is to blame for Biden's weak policies and late response. But this administration did respond and crossings are way down. Ideally both parties would be working together to solve this issue but it seems like they would rather make it a political football and score points against the other side.

As if this story could get any more bizarre… https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/27/politics/mark-robinson-hospitalized/index.html

Here are the rainfall estimates from Helene, incredible totals in the mountains of NC.