1.   An area of mostly sunny and hot conditions will cover eastern Texas and western Louisiana as the air sinks in between the two tropical systems.

2.   As a matter of policy, reconnaissance aircraft do not fly into tropical systems over land.

3.   As is often the case with tropical systems, thunderstorms embedded within the rain bands may spawn isolated tornadoes, especially across western Florida.

4.   Bands of tropical showers will spread out across Florida, southwest Georgia, central Alabama and southeast Mississippi as the tropical system unwinds like a released spring.

5.   A weak tropical system over the western Gulf of Mexico may bring a period of heavier showers to the Texas and Louisiana coasts.

6.   By viewing satellite images, forecasters categorize the shapes of clouds near the center of tropical systems.

7.   By virtue of technology, the modern count of tropical systems tends to be inflated compared with tallies before satellites.

8.   During hurricane season, tropical systems usually pass south of Hawaii, generating swells that make waves on southern shores.

9.   Forecasting responsibility for a tropical system that forms or moves west of the Date Line is shouldered by the hurricane center on Guam.

10.   High pressure aloft suppressed thunderstorms by squelching rising air currents, while the lack of tropical systems precluded any spectacular rains.