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Currently in Philadelphia — October 23, 2023: Chilly but sunny
Plus, details on two hurricane landfalls over the weekend.
Abe Musselman & Eric Holthaus
October 22, 2023
The weather, currently.
Chilly but quite sunny
I was promised rain this weekend, but heading into the work week, my Bean boots remain bone dry. My disappointment is immeasurable. But life goes on, and it’s the aesthetic that really counts. Today will be sunnier than yesterday, but with a high of 61˚F, it will also be the coldest day of the week. A steady breeze will bring along wind chills in the low 40s, at least in the morning. But temperatures will start to climb again this week into the mid-70s, believe it or not. I hope your Halloween costume doesn’t have too many layers.
— Abe Musselman
What you need to know, currently.
Over the weekend two hurricanes make landfall — one in the Pacific, and one in the Atlantic.
Hurricane Tammy has been a rare late-October hurricane-strength storm in the tropical Atlantic, and meandered its way parallel to the Eastern Caribbean chain of islands before making landfall in Barbuda on Sunday. The storm caused intense flash flooding in Guadeloupe as well. Forecasts show that Tammy will continue meandering northwestward this week, but it’s still too early to say whether it will pose a threat to Bermuda or the US mainland.
Meanwhile, Hurricane Norma lashed the southern tip of Baja California before making a second landfall on the Mexico mainland over the weekend. It’s the fifth tropical cyclone to make landfall on Mexico’s Pacific Coast this year.
#Topolobampo Fuertes vientos e intensa lluvia se registra en el puerto de Topolobampo ante la presencia de #Norma. Extremar precauciones.
— Alfredo Padilla MX (@Alfredopadiilla)
9:50 PM • Oct 22, 2023
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