Marvelous Spring Day

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If you liked yesterday, you should love today as we see another marvelous Spring day across Central Alabama. Once again we’ll see passing high cirrus clouds but with plenty of sun we should see the afternoon highs climb to the middle 70s. We stay warm into the middle of the upcoming week as the upper ridge grows stronger through Tuesday and into Wednesday.

But a strong upper trough comes out of the Rockies Tuesday through Thursday posing a risk for severe weather across much of the Central US. SPC has slight risk areas outlooked through Day 4, Wednesday, and Tuesday we are likely to see a moderate risk area. SPC is holding off on specific areas beyond Day 4 due to model inconsistencies and differences. However, there is likely to be some risk of severe storms for Alabama probably coming from 1 am to 1 pm on Thursday. The timing may be helpful to us in limiting the severe weather threat somewhat due to the lack of heating. However, most severe weather parameters are sufficient for severe thunderstorms including isolated tornadoes. The European is still holding to a later time frame with the front passing through Alabama mainly on Friday. I would have thought the two models would have grown closer together since yesterday, however, that is not the case yet. These differences lower confidence in the evolution of the system.

Once that system passes, we should be setting the stage for another great weekend next weekend. We’ll cool down after the warmest days of 2013 on Tuesday and Wednesday, but we don’t see a tremendous chill. Highs should drop from around 81 on Tuesday to upper 60s by Friday. We should see highs over the next weekend back into the 70s.

The stays fairly active in the long range with a system around the 17th/18th and another around 20th. The one around the 20th certainly has a severe weather look to it, and we are into the heart of severe weather season for the Southeast US.

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I’ll be working again today at the Honda Indy Grand Prix at the Barber Motorsports Park. The beautiful weather should make for a great day of Indy car racing. James Spann will be back with the next edition of the Weather Xtreme Video first thing Monday morning. Stay tuned to the Blog as we post additional information on the evolution of the system expected here on Thursday. Have a great day and Godspeed.

-Brian-

Category: Alabama's Weather