Warm Weekend for Us

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The weather for Central Alabama is looking great with a general warm-up in store for us. But this morning started the weekend on a brisk note with morning lows dipping into the 30s in some spots across the area. Our Skywatcher in Black Creek reported a morning low of 36 degrees. With clear skies today we should see temperatures warm nicely into the middle 70s.

FOOTBALL WEATHER: Great weather for a big football day in Birmingham with the Magic City Classic at Legion Field featuring Alabama State and Alabama A&M. The sky will be sun filled for the 2:30 pm kickoff; 76 degrees at kickoff, with upper 60s by the final whistle. Auburn hosts South Carolina this evening at Jordan-Hare Stadium (6:30 pm kickoff), the sky will be clear with temperatures falling from around 70 degrees at kickoff into the upper 50s by the fourth quarter. Alabama is on the road at Knoxville where they take on the Tennessee Volunteers with a 6:30 pm kickoff. The sky will be clear with a kickoff temperature near 65 degrees, falling into the 50s by the second half.

The surface high pressure system will slide eastward Sunday and Monday taking up a position centered over the Southeast US coast by Monday afternoon. Aloft an upper ridge will gradually move eastward, too, locating along the eastern seaboard of the US by Monday afternoon. This should continue the dry weather with temperatures warming with a morning low around 60s and a high in the lower 80s by Monday.

That’s when we begin to see a strong trough moving out of the Rockies bump the ridge eastward into the Atlantic Ocean. This should bring a surface low across the Great Lakes with a cold front trailing southwestward into Arkansas. So clouds will increase Tuesday into Wednesday and with the front in our vicinity by Wednesday we should see some scattered showers as the moisture increases with the surface high off to the east allowing a southerly surface flow. The front moves through slowly before another strong impulse digs into the trough pushing the front out of the area and bringing another shot of cold air with a strong ridge just to our west.

The tropics are relatively quiet with the remnants of TD 9 in the western Caribbean with no expectations of any development in the near term.

Looking out into voodoo country, early November looks dry and relatively warm with an strong upper ridge in place, but the GFS is taking on a cold and somewhat stormy look around the 7th and 8th of November.

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-Brian-

Category: Alabama's Weather