review of August 2022 weather

Updated at 4 pm EDT September 19, 2022 with respect to Hurricane Fiona and the Day 1 and Day 2 CONUS forecasts

The heat is moving from west to east. It is fairly dry and that also is tending to move from west to east also. It is almost an Autumn pattern.

NOAA updates many of its weather outlooks daily or even more frequently and in many cases issues a discussion with those outlooks. We provide a daily report which focuses on the shorter-term predictions but has links to all the partial-month outlooks. One of the reports issued by NOAA only gets updated on Fridays and since this covers weeks 3 and 4 it is very important. The discussion that gets issued with this week 3-4 NOAA report is often where possible changes to the weather pattern are first identified.

So we have decided to issue a special report on Fridays (which most will read on Saturday) in which for a subset of the information, we show the actual forecast maps not just provide the links. This makes it easier for the reader. We will also include at the end of the article the other information from the daily article

When the Week 3-4 Outlook is issued on Friday, we have a 28-day view of the future. It is important to recognize that the forecasts do not always work out as predicted. But in the article, there are links to obtain updated forecasts. In some weeks the 28-Outlook is published a day or two late because there are other articles to publish and we want each to be featured on the Econcurrents.com website for a while. So we can end up with a 27-day or 26-day outlook. But the other maps usually are up to date at the time of publishing.

The regular 48-hour forecast article is included in this article and follows the 28-Day Analysis.