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Clouds and Sun Today

| December 14, 2014 @ 7:20 am

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Some low clouds moved into northern Alabama overnight creating an interesting temperature contrast across Central Alabama. Near sunrise, there was a 21 degree difference in temperatures from Tuscaloosa at 47 and Anniston at 26. Vic Bell reported a low of 23 at Black Creek for the coldest reading I could find. This makes the temperature forecast today a bit difficult. I think the clouds will stick around this morning but we should see some sunshine by afternoon. The clouds will hold temperatures down some so I’m only expecting the upper 50s for most areas, perhaps lower 60s south of the Birmingham area.

The surface high in place this morning will slide to the east today with the next weather system taking shape to our west. As the high slides east, a trough kicks our of the southern Rockies on Monday taking the surface low into the middle Mississippi River Valley and bringing a front across the lower portion of the Mississippi Valley. Clouds should increase Monday with the showers and rain holding off until the very late afternoon and evening.

This system zips by briskly so I think much of the rain chances will be confined to the nighttime hours. By Tuesday at midday the trough has moved into the eastern Great Lakes area and the front has cleared the area. We should see the rain end for most folks by daybreak though it might linger a little beyond that for the eastern section of Central Alabama. We’ll cool down some for Wednesday and Thursday as the coldest air remains well to our north, but our highs should fall back into the 50s.

Wednesday and Thursday will be dry with another weak ridge influencing our weather. The next system, however, will be taking shape Thursday and bringing us some wet weather for Friday and the first half of Saturday. Friday is likely to be a fairly warm day as a warm front moves north and good southerly flow is established. The upper storm system opens up and moves by on Saturday afternoon, so that should bring an end to the rain by the middle of the day on Saturday. Sunday should be dry and colder once again with highs dropping back into the middle 50s.

Rainfall with the first system is expected to be fairly light with a half inch or less for most locations. The next system for Friday and Saturday could bring a bigger rain event to the area.

And voodoo country has a somewhat different look to it on this run – so what’s new? Yesterday it looked like a warm and dry Christmas for Central Alabama, but the run today continues to show a fairly warm pattern but it could be wet with a strong weather system coming across the Southern Plains. And the pattern will remain active with another system ab out three days later bringing more wet weather for the 28th and 29th. But maybe all this will change in the next few model runs.

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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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