Drier Air This Weekend

In Montgomery for a meeting this afternoon… not able to produce a video, but here is J.B.’s afternoon discussion from the seven day forecast page…

LOOKING FOR A BREAK: Two years ago about this time, people were literally begging for rain. When I was at church last Sunday morning, no less than 25 people said it is time to stop. I told them we had the magic ingredients to stop the rain by pushing certain buttons on our computer. Of course, they knew I was kidding.

But we do have a break coming up. We have been looking toward our friends in the Dakotas, Montana and Wyoming urging them to push some cooler air south. We do look for a cool front to approach NW Alabama very early Thursday. We will still have some scattered showers and thunderstorms on Thursday, however, on Friday only a slight chance of showers and storms and mostly in the morning.

A DIFFERENT WEEKEND: We sure have had some rainy Sundays, but this time Saturday and Sunday will bring us model weather with lower humidity, mostly sunshine and pleasantly cool early mornings. Here in Central Alabama, low temperatures over the weekend will be in the upper 50s and highs only in the low to mid 80s, but the lower humidity will make those mid 80s seem comfortable. Meanwhile, we will still have to deal with a good chance of showers and thunderstorms until they thin out Friday.

GLOBAL ROAMING: There was widespread frost in the NE this morning including Upper New York State into Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. The temperature dropped to 23 at Island Pond, Vermont and 26 at Saranac Lake, New York. The coldest in the lower 48 this morning was 22 at Berlin, New Hampshire and 25 at Barter Island, Alaska. The snow sure is melting fast in Alaska. Fairbanks reported a high of 80 yesterday and no snow.

MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: With our daughter and son-in-law and our grandkids with us, we have lots of help walking Little Miss Molly and I welcome it. Night before last, my daughter took Molly out the back door for a walk. Neither of them at first saw the Community Rabbit cuddled in the corner of the yard. When Molly saw her, it was like the shuttle being launched. She almost jerked my daughter down. Meanwhile the leash got wrapped around my large rain gauge and it was almost overturned. I would have lost the daily rain amount. No way to predict what happens the minute Molly goes out. Life goes on….

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