Early Afternoon Look at Weather

| August 28, 2010 @ 2:23 pm | 1 Reply

Visible satellite imagery shows a reasonably well defined cloud mass with a weak surface low off the Louisiana coast. Surface observations show a center south of Abbeville-Lafayette area of Louisiana. Strongest wind appears to be to the east of the low center where sustained wind of 25 mph along with gusts to 31 mph are occurring. Radar showed rain and thunderstorms occurring from just east of the low all the way to Apalachicola, FL, from Interstate 10 to the near Gulf coastal waters. This is definitely not a good weekend for beach going!

Some of the showers had spread into Southwest Alabama stretching from just east of Monroeville, AL, to east of Hattiesburg., MS. Most of the rain and showers were moving northwesterly with a slow edging northward of the whole mass of rain.

Precipitable water values were on the rise especially across South Alabama and Northwest Florida. All of this setting the stage for what could be a fairly unusual rainy, cloudy day for Central Alabama on Sunday.

The GFS model continued to present a fairly wet day for Central Alabama for tomorrow, but this naturally will depend on the future motion and path of this weak surface low. I have to admit that the precipitation shield I see on the regional radar is much larger than I expected to see for today – with a great deal of coverage. If the low does move far enough north by tomorrow to impact us, the combination of rain and clouds is very likely to keep the afternoon highs in the lower 80s.

-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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