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New Shot Of Cool Air By Sunday

| September 21, 2012 @ 3:00 pm

**No afternoon Weather Xtreme video today**

This afternoon’s discussion courtesy of Bill Murray…

I’m sitting in for America’s Greatest Weatherman, J.B. Elliott this afternoon as he has a minor medical procedure done. Of course, J.B. would say he is not even the best weatherman on his street, but we all know better.

FANTASTIC FRIDAY: A pleasant afternoon is in progress across Central Alabama on this September Friday. It’s warm, with temperatures rising well into the middle 80s, but at least the dewpoints are low, making it at least feel a little more comfortable. Skies are mostly sunny, and radars are quiet. There is an arc of clouds pushing into the Tennessee Valley this afternoon, an outflow boundary from morning storms over Missouri. There have been a few light radar echoes over southern Tennessee, but they were weakening quickly and everyone in Central Alabama will remain dry.

NICE EVENING AHEAD: The same dry conditions will continue through tonight with lows in the upper 50s. Perfect weather for tonight’s prep football action.

COOL FRONT: A pretty strong cold front will push into North Alabama late this morning and will move across Central Alabama today. The front will be accompanied by a few clouds and there is an outside chance of a shower this afternoon, maybe even a stray thunderstorm over northeastern sections, but that chance is very small thanks to limited moisture.

FOOTBALL FORECAST: Alabama entertains Florida Atlantic in a 4 p.m. contest tomorrow at Bryant Denny Stadium. Can’t rule out s stray shower, but I wouldn’t worry about it. Skies will be partly cloudy. Game time temperature: 85 degrees, falling to the middle 70s by the end of the game. As the front passes, you will notice a period of gusty northwest winds.

A couple of hours later, Auburn will kickoff against LSU at the Loveliest Village on the Plains. Expect partly cloudy skies. Can’t rule out one of those isolated small showers, but again, the chance is small. The front should arrive during the pregame, with northwesterly winds during the game. 80 at kickoff, falling into the upper 60s by the end of the game.

The UAB Blazers will be in Columbus, Ohio to take on the Buckeyes (11:00 a.m. kickoff); the sky will be mostly cloudy with an outside risk of a shower during the game… temperatures will be in the 60s.

COOL AIR: Skies will clear overnight Saturday night as drier and cooler air overspreads the area. Look for lows in the lower 50s by morning, with a few 40s liberally sprinkled in. Sunday will be a nearly perfect day, with lots of sunshine, low humidities and highs in the upper 70s. Might be a candidate for a Perfect Weather Warning.

WARMING TREND: Monday should be another great looking day, with highs in the upper 70s. We will be back in the lower 80s by Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons as a slow warmup begins. We should stay dry through the end of the week.

WEEKEND SNEAK PEEK: The weekend looks good for now. Should be try, and temperatures will be warm, with highs in the 80s and lows in the 50s.

SATURDAY STEAM: The Tennessee Valley Railroad will be running two steam excursions out of Birmingham today and another two tomorrow. They will depart from the old Terminal Station site at 26th street and 2nd Avenue North. They will depart at 7 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. each day. To reserve tickets: https://www.tvrail.com/pages/21st-Century-Steam

SNOW UP NORTH: A cold core upper low over eastern Canada will set the stage for possible snow over the weekend over parts of the Great Lakes states, like Michigan.

NADINE: As advertised, Nadine has been an interesting system. It formed last Friday, about 1,000 miles east of the Virgin Islands. It has spent the past week curving gradually northeast. It has impacted the Azores for the past couple of days as a tropical storm, after spending a couple of days this week as a category one hurricane. Winds gusted to 46 mph yesterday at Lajes Airbase in the volcanic islands, which are about 2,300 miles east of New York City . Those winds diminished overnight as the center of the tropical storm continues to move slowly east southeast and weakens. It will lost tropical characteristics in the next day or so.

ELSEWHERE IN THE TROPICS: A disturbance around 500 miles east of Bermuda still has a chance to get a name, likely as a subtropical cyclone. But it needs to hurry, as conditions will become less favorable for development by tomorrow. If it does achieve storm status, it will be named Oscar. The GFS model is not bullish on this system amounting to anything. It will not affect the U.S. The GFS predicts relative quiet in the Atlantic over the next two weeks. That’s good news as we begin to wind down a busy season.

ONLINE SPOTTER TRAINING: A note from Scott Unger at the NWS in Birmingham to remind everyone that it’s time for Fall Storm Spotter classes. He has eleven classes scheduled, including the Graduate class in November and several online classes as well. The first class is this Tuesday, September 25th. Check it out at:

MYWARN: Another quiet day is expected across the country today with no organized severe weather forecast anywhere across the U.S. An upper disturbance moving into the Great Lakes will cause a weak surface low to form over the Midwest today. There will be a brief window for severe weather late today from Missouri into Illinois in the warm sector of this low. Other storms will form in a moist atmosphere over Florida today and over the rest of the Great Lakes states as well. There will be a few warnings in these scattered locations today. MyWARN is the iPhone app that keeps an eye out for you wherever you are and wherever you go, silently waiting for the National Weather Service to issue a risk, watch or warning for severe thunderstorms and tornadoes, as well as flash floods. Get MyWARN and you be immediately informed of severe weather threats so you can take action to protect yourself an your family, all without the annoying unnecessary warnings for nearby areas that other apps don’t filter out. Go to www.MyWARN.com.

IN GUIDE: The Greater Birmingham Convention and Visitors Bureau has created one of the best local apps I have ever seen. If you have an iPhone or Android device, you simply must get this app! Available in the iTunes store and Google Play Store. Get it now. It’s free!

ONE YEAR AGO: The weather across Central one year ago looked a lot like that of today, except that we were preparing for a decent round of showers and storms ahead of a front. Go back to this date one year ago.

WEATHERBRAINS: One of the best WeatherBrains ever this week with Canadian nature adventurer George Kourounis. He was the star of the show Angry Planet. George shared some fantastic stories. Check out the weekly netcast that’s all about weather at www.WeatherBrains.com. You can also subscribe on iTunes. You will be able to see the show in the James Spann 24×7 weather channel on cable or directly over the air on the dot 2 feed.

ON THIS DATE IN 1938: The New England Hurricane of 1938 surprised weather forecasters who thought the storm was headed out to sea, hitting Long Island and then moving across New England with 100 mph winds. Meteorologists had thought the storm was headed out to sea, and the storm caught everyone by surprise. The water in downtown Providence, Rhode Island rose to nearly fourteen feet. Waves of 30-40 feet on top of the storm surge caused incredible damage on the Rhode Island and southern Massachusetts coastlines. A total of 600 people died. Damage was figured at $387 million. Follow my weather history tweets on Twitter. I am @wxhistorian at Twitter.com.

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