NHC still has an orange blob of doom off the US coast …

It now has an INVEST ID, AL932026, and the models are tracking it:

For now it looks to stay offshore. As a reminder, the green line is climatology for reference – how storms there have historically moved at this time of year. NHC has given AL93 a 40% chance of gainint enough tropical characteristics for them to track it, but eithe way it will produce gusty winds and waves along the immediate coast. Here’s the wind animation …
It looks like the rain will stay offshore:
Finally, WPC has some key messages for you to look at:

Out in the western Pacific, Super Typhoon Champi is on track to curve just north of Taiwan and across the East China Sea. This may be a problem for Okinawa and Japan later this week.

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