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Delightful Day!

| January 16, 2015 @ 2:13 pm

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After fog burned out of the lake and river Valleys of North Alabama this morning, the state has been nearly bereft of clouds on this mid-January Friday, a real Godsend given our recent dreary days. Some high clouds were about to start streaming into West Alabama, but they aren’t taking up much of the sky even there. They are being pushed rapidly along in the fast flow of an active southern branch of the jetstream. They will be mainly shunted to the south over South Alabama this afternoon.

The southern tier of the United States is remarkable free of radar echoes this afternoon. In fact, you could go from Virginia to southern California and be hard pressed to find a single shower. There might be one between Brackettville and Uvalde in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, but that could even be a wind turbine or something. Looking at satellite, it probably is a light shower not reaching the ground under that active southern branch of the jet stream bringing in some Pacific moisture.

Temperatures were in the 50s across Central Alabama at 2 p.m. Across the state, Huntsville was the only major reporting station still in the 40s. Temperatures will gradually slide back down into the upper 20s to lower 30s tonight with most locations reaching freezing.

It will be warmer tomorrow, with highs around 60F! Heat wave!

Dry disturbance Sunday with just some clouds, then dry until Thursday night. Could there be snow? James will be along with the afternoon edition of the Weather Xtreme Video. You will want to tune in!

Category: Alabama's Weather

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