Coolish with Scattered Showers

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Our unsettled weather will continue one more day as the closed, cold core upper low gradually inches away from us. In its current position, short waves moving around the upper closed low bring enhanced chances for showers. But just like yesterday afternoon, only a few spots will see rain and that rain will be rather light. Temperatures today will stay coolish with highs only reaching the middle 50s.

While the atmosphere for us will dry out Monday and Tuesday, temperatures are only expected to climb a tad with highs in the upper 50s Monday and Tuesday.

The next system reaches us on Wednesday, but moisture will be somewhat limited. So while showers will occur, I expect them to be rather scattered meaning another day when most of us will remain dry. In fact, while the QPF map shows a broad area of light precipitation – generally less than a quarter of an inch – most of Central Alabama will not see even that much rain due to the scattered nature of the precipitation. I noted yesterday that the radar image at mid afternoon was certainly reminiscent of a summer look with small pop up showers.

The Wednesday system should exit quickly and return Central Alabama to dry weather on Thursday and Friday. Rain chances return on Saturday as a strong short wave comes out of the Rockies with a fairly strong surface low that moves from Missouri into the central Great Lakes region by Saturday afternoon. This is likely to bring us some fairly wet weather for next weekend with rain ending by Sunday morning. And this system could usher in some much colder air, at least for a short period.

Looking further afield, the overall pattern remains active with another rain shot around March 25th. The upper pattern then is somewhat southwesterly which means we could see another heavy rain event as the pattern taps Pacific moisture. That’s a long way out to be specific, but this kind of pattern could definitely aggravate the river flooding situation created by the recent heavy rain.

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I hope everyone remembered to set their clocks ahead one hour this morning with the start of daylight savings time. I wa just beginning to enjoy getting up with some sun, but it will be nice to have the extra light in the evening. James Spann will be back tomorrow morning with the next edition of the Weather Xtreme Video. Enjoy the day and Godspeed.

-Brian-

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