Alan's Weather- 08/29/11

Irene is gone and now it's time to clean-up, although it's going to take the river systems a while to get back to their banks.

Weather-wise, though, it's a beautiful day. Sunshine that may mix with some patchy clouds this afternoon with very pleasant low humidity. Some highs around 80, but cooler at the beach.

Still comfortable tonight with temperatures back in the 50s for many, but low or middle 60s in urban or coastal areas.

Lots of sunshine will continue for both Tuesday and Wednesday with low humidity continuing. Highs tomorrow in the lower 80s and in the mid 80s Wednesday. It'll be cooler both days at the beach and boardwalk.

There may be some arriving clouds Thursday and Friday to mix with some sunshine, but other than that, I think we'll be ok.

And the weekend starts off fine, although there may be showers by the time we get to some point Sunday.

The tropics are still very busy. There is a new tropical depress that's formed south-southwest of the Cape Verde Islands and will become a hurricane in the many days ahead. In fact, in the next 4 or 5 days, it's likely to become a major hurricane.

However, most of the track models, medium-range track models, take it well to the east of the U.S. east coast in a recurving fashion. But it's still a little bit too early to give up on that just yet.