Sunday Brunch Update: Talkin’ Eclipse, Severe Weather and Flooding by Midweek

“Another park, another Sunday”, sang the Doobie Brothers. But that beautiful song was sad, and there’s nothing sad about today’s forecast. ‘

Skies are mostly sunny across Alabama with some clouds starting to edge into western sections of the state. They will continue to increase through the day, with some nice sunset photos on tap for this evening, I feel. So have those smartphone cameras ready to snap away.

Here is a beautiful national satellite, radar, surface pressure isobars, temperatures and recent storm reports:

Your eyes are immediately drawn to the 992 millibar surface low over Nebraska. Reports of high winds and blowing dust along the southern side of that low. Some light snowfall amounts over southwestern Colorado this morning, including 3″ near Ouray, pronounced “YOO-ray”. Beautiful country out there.

The Great Eclipse Migration is underway on this total eclipse eve. Lots of clouds but hardly any showers in the path of totality from Texas through Arkansas, Missouri, southern Illinois and Indiana. Some clouds in Maine and New England, but Ohio and New York are mostly sunny for now. That will change. Go back and watch this morning’s video for the latest thoughts. Grab a sandwich though, cause it is the longest I have done probably.

Most of Alabama outside the South is in the 60s. Everyone will be in the 70s this afternoon. Tonight will be mostly cloudy with showers arriving after midnight, mainly over northwestern sections. A more extensive area of rain and some thunder pushes through Monday night. Showers and some thunder will be likely Tuesday.

Wednesday will feature another round of storms. Some of them could be severe over southwestern portions of Central Alabama. Here is the Energy Helicity Composite Index for Wednesday afternoon.

Areas in shades of blue and yellow will have best chances. The main threat will be damaging winds, but a tornado or two cannot be ruled out.

The EHI map corresponds well with the SPC Day Four outlook:

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