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The Warmup Continues

| January 17, 2015 @ 7:22 am

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Some high cirrus clouds were traversing the Central Alabama sky this morning, but those should pass returning us to clear weather by afternoon. It was nice to see the sun yesterday and to warm up into the lower 50s. Looks like we should warm into the upper 50s with some spots warming to 60 degrees today.

But a cold front is expected to pass through Central Alabama on Sunday bringing another shot of colder air to the area. Without a good return of moisture, the front should come through dry with only a few clouds to mar the sky. Highs Sunday will dip back into the lower half of the 50s.

The upper trough pushing the front through on Sunday will move quickly east into the Atlantic bringing another nice warm up to Central Alabama for the first of the week. Highs by Monday and Tuesday should once again come up into the range of 57 to 61.

Another surge of chilly weather arrives on Wednesday and Thursday as yet another trough digs into the eastern US. This one will be a bit colder than the trough on Sunday and bring temperatures back a good bit. Looks for lows in the upper 20s by the end of the week with highs only in the upper 40s to lower 50s. Fortunately, it appears that this one will also arrive essentially dry with just some clouds.

Clouds and the threat of rain arrive for the weekend with the approach of a low latitude short wave coming across Texas. The biggest rain threat will be along the Gulf Coast, however, we’re edging into voodoo country, so we’ll have to watch future computer model runs to see exactly how far south that short wave goes. With a chance of rain on Saturday we’ll also see temperatures close to seasonal values for the latter part of January.

And there appears to be no rest for weather forecasters for the last week of January. The GFS promises another cold eastern US trough around the 29th of January followed by another one for the first of February. We all know this is voodoo country, but the system around February 1st could produce some winter mischief for the Southeast US. It’s much too early to be specific on any kind of winter weather threat or on the location, but the pattern forecast by the GFS certainly suggests someone will have an issue.

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-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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