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Two tropical systems dance north as friends race a single-engine Cessna home across shifting winds

Stephen Pellettiere
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Hi, this is Minnie Roger, Steve Pelletier, and I'm the Weatherman. Thanks for checking into theWeathermanpod.com on this Wednesday. It is the first day of the month of October. It's October already. And uh looking at uh sunny weather and some cooler conditions across the northeast. Around the mid-Atlantic states, it's been getting a lot of cloud cover and some occasional rain and showers because of the tropical systems offshore. Really interesting to see uh the two storms, one a Hurricane Humberto, the other one a Yamanda. It's uh actually going to travel in unison up along the eastern seaboard and off towards the northeast, and will continue to travel uh slowly towards the northeast into the North Atlantic and into the North Atlantic. We're watching uh our buddy Ed Galkin and Peter Toon, who are uh now working their way across the Atlantic from the Azores to St. John's, a trip that's going to take them eight hours in a single-engine aircraft. If you want to learn more about that, you have to go to flight tonpolio.com, flight toandpolio.com and go for the North Atlantic um mission that we're doing right now. And uh they're actually on their way home. They've had some successful visits all across the European continent, uh up in uh Norway and also in Iceland, and even actually the the flight routing took them up to Newfoundland across through Iceland, then from Iceland to Bergen, Norway, Norway down to well, it was probably right in through uh Denmark. From Denmark, they went to France, France up to Poland to the east, and then over to Britain, and from Britain down to uh Spain, and then Portugal, and then to the Azores. Of course, the Azores are the islands that are uh to the east of the coast of the Iberian coast of Portugal and Spain, and uh now about 1,500-mile trip that will be being taken during the daytime today from the Azores to St. John, Newfoundland, and in a single-engine Cessna 210. So good luck to them as they go across. Looks like the weather is good. The storms are to the southwest and to the northeast. They got a nice path right to uh the coast of Canada during the midday and afternoon hours today. So for our weather, uh, if you are flying today, well, actually, first our weather situation, very nice. Sunshine near 70 today, 67 on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday and Sunday, all looking fair and dry. Hey, it's been dry and we do need some rainfall. Can't make it happen, but as long as the weather's gonna be nice, might as well enjoy it. If you're traveling by air today, looks like dry weather in Atlanta and Charlotte. Uh some scattered showers and thunderstorms, but to a lesser degree in central and south Florida. Uh, looks dry in Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Paul, also dry, Houston, Dallas, no problems weather wise there. Kansas City, up to the Dakotas, Omaha, Denver, dry conditions, dry in Los Angeles and San Diego, but rainy weather in San Francisco, Portland, and in Seattle. Could be some delays into there if you are flying today commercially. But once again, just it's fly toendpolio.com. Just go to that site and you'll see some pretty interesting things that are going on right now. And the boys are now crossing the Atlantic from the east to the west. So they're going against the winds, and at times they're going to have uh probably some pretty strong winds out of the west southwest, but then uh very lighter winds as they get closer to the coast of Newfoundland. In the meantime, I hope you have a great first day of October. I'm Meteorologist Steve Pelletieri. Thanks for listening in, and we'll talk to you first thing tomorrow. Take care.