We got a couple of things going on right now:

Nothing new about that.  It hit last week.  What’s different is we got another one coming tonight.  On top of that we got:

A low pressure system in the Gulf of Mexico.  The last time I wrote about these two things happening at the same time was in August 2005.  A tropical storm that had done little damage and seemed to be pretty much spent suddenly exploded into a Cat 5 and destroyed New Orleans.  That storm of course was Katrina.  Not saying it will happen again, but I’m definitely keeping my eye on it over the next few days.

And if something does happen, I don’t want to hear another astronomer tell me there is definitely no relation between the weather on the Sun and Earth.