The late-summer-into-early-fall heat persists through the end of this week, after we've just experienced our warmest first half of September on record in Tyler and our second-warmest in Longview. A cold front is expected early next week, but high temperatures will remain in the 90s even after the front passes through East Texas. That said, this cold front will still bring us a chance for showers and thunderstorms on Monday and Tuesday, and possibly Wednesday as well.
Today in weather history... On September 16, 1928, after ravaging Puerto Rico, the "San Felipe" hurricane made landfall on Florida's East Coast as a Category 4. Lake Okeechobee overflowed, flooding surrounding communities with surge as high as 20 feet. At least 2,500 people were killed in the US. Today's daily weather history segment comes to us courtesy of the Southeast Regional Climate Center.
This week's weather word is "tofan." (Also spelled tufon, tufan.) It is a violent spring storm common in the mountains of Indonesia. This definition comes from the American Meteorological Society's Glossary of Meteorology (2026).
Also on today's show, we'll continue to follow up on Hurricane Helene after making nearly two years ago. Additionally, our satellite imagery of the day, from the archive, shows gravity waves and severe storms across eastern New Mexico, courtesy of the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere.
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