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Summer in November

| November 3, 2012 @ 7:27 am

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It appears that Alabama is in for a bit of summer-like warmth today with highs across the state climbing into the lower 80s once again. That will feel nice with a good supply of sunshine, but this is likely to be our warmest weather for some time as a cold front along with an upper trough will be setting up another chill down for us.

An minor upper short wave will move through the Ohio Valley on Sunday which will bring clouds and some chance of rain to the area for Sunday. Right now it sure appears that this system will be somewhat moisture-starved which keeps the rain potential in the scattered shower category at best. But with the addition of clouds and a slightly more northwesterly flow, our high temperatures will drop back to near the 70-degree mark.

As the minor short wave moves by, another stronger shortwave will drop into the Central US behind that one and really bring some colder air into the Southeast US with lows dropping back into the 40s and highs in the 60s. And it appears that this pattern will change slowly through the coming week as we transition from a trough over the eastern US to a ridge with a warmer southwesterly flow which should bring our highs back to near 70 and lows to near 50 – a nice combination of cool mornings but mild to warm afternoons.

The southwesterly flow will also mean the potential to tap into Pacific moisture which would mean the presence of more clouds, but it seems unlikely at the moment that we would have any rain chances until late in the next weekend.

Things remain quiet with no areas of severe weather expected, and there are no areas of disturbed weather in the tropics being watched for development. This period of relatively good weather should provide the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast US with time for some recovery from the effects of Sandy.

The overall weather pattern remains fairly active into voodoo country with another weather system likely around the 14th followed by another string of relatively mild days.

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Looks like the weather will be just fine for some of my outdoor projects such as mowing up the leaves that have fallen so far. I’ve got one tree that is completely bare already while many of the other trees are keeping a solid grip on their leaves. In fact, I have several oak trees which just love to hold their leaves just about all winter. Enjoy the day and Godspeed.

-Brian-

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Brian Peters is one of the television meteorologists at ABC3340 in Birmingham and a retired NWS Warning Coordination Meteorologist. He handles the weekend Weather Xtreme Videos and forecast discussion and is the Webmaster for the popular WeatherBrains podcast.

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