A Few Showers By The Weekend

COLD MORNING: Temperatures are generally at or below freezing over the northern third of the state this morning with a clear sky and light wind; with a good supply of sunshine today we project a high at or just over 60 degrees this afternoon. Tonight will be cold again, but most places stay above freezing with a low in the mid to upper 30s. Colder pockets, however, will reach the low 30s again.

TOMORROW AND THE WEEKEND: Tomorrow will be dry; with a partly sunny the high will be in the upper 60s. Then, on Saturday, clouds increase during the day, and we will mention a chance of showers by late afternoon into Saturday night as a compact system passes north of the state. Moisture will be fairly limited, and rain amounts should be on the light side. Probably no thunder.

A surface boundary will stall out over Central Alabama Sunday, so we will need to continue to mention a risk of showers, but again it won’t be a “wash out”. The sky will be mostly cloudy Sunday, and highs both days will be in the 70s.

NEXT WEEK: A wedge front will move in from the east, and a this point Monday looks cool and wet with periods of rain and temperatures holding in the 50s all day. Then, an upper ridge builds, and Tuesday and Wednesday look dry with a warming trend… the GFS is printing a high near 80 degrees here on Wednesday. Then later in the week a fairy vigorous system brings showers and storms by Thursday and Thursday night… we will need to monitor that for severe weather potential in coming days. See the Weather Xtreme video for maps, graphics, and more details.

STORM SURVEYS: So far, National Weather Service offices in Birmingham and Huntsville have identified eleven tornadoes that touched down in our state Monday and Monday night; the Riddles Bend tornado in St. Clair and Etowah counties was an EF-2… the strongest was the EF-3 that tore through Jacksonville. That one had a 34.29 miles long path in Alabama, and it continued into Georgia.

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I am doing a weather program this morning at Central Elementary in Florence, and then I will be at the University of Georgia tonight. So… due to travel no afternoon video or discussion… the next post from me will come early tomorrow morning. Enjoy the day!

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