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Sunshine Returns

| January 24, 2015 @ 6:52 am

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The clouds and rain of the last 36 hours or so are exiting the state of Alabama and we should see a fairly rapid clearing during the morning. While the sunshine returns, it will remain on the cool side with highs rising only into the upper 40s for most locations.

We should see a fairly nice warmup on Sunday with highs climbing about 10 degrees with values reaching the upper 50s. But another trough will be coming down the pike providing another shot of cold air for Monday. While the system will be dry with just some clouds we should see highs once again struggle to climb out of the 40s.

A gradual warmup begins on Tuesday as the upper trough moves off the East Coast of the US returning us to a more zonal and warmer flow aloft. But there is no lack of impulses moving through the flow, so we’ll see clouds from time to time though the week stays essentially dry.

By next Saturday, a strong short wave will be digging into the Central Plains states that should bring us another round of wet weather for Sunday, perhaps beginning late Saturday. We’ll have to watch the timing on this system should it speed up or slow down. This system has some potential for producing another soaking for Central Alabama. Now we are verging into voodoo country, so no specifics yet, but this system also has some potential for producing some winter weather for some parts of the Southeast US. Too early for any specifics, but something to watch.

The overall flow pattern remains pretty active into Week 2. The pattern goes from a pretty chilly look around February 1st to a mild look around the 4th to another wet look around the 8th. So no lack of weather to keep us busy.

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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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