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Cold October Night

| October 29, 2012 @ 3:32 pm

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BREEZY, COLD NIGHT: We are forecasting a low of 34 degrees early tomorrow morning across North-Central Alabama. This is well below the average low of 46, and within 6 degrees of the record low for October 30, 28 set in 1952. Don’t expect too much frost because the wind will stay up all night thanks to the storm formerly known as Sandy (it has gone post-tropical).

REST OF THE WEEK: We will stay dry through Friday, with sunny days and clear cold nights. We will see a high in the 50s again tomorrow with a gusty north wind, but we go back into the 60s Wednesday through Friday with lighter wind.

THE WEEKEND: Sunny weather continues Saturday and Sunday. Looks like highs will be in the 60s, and lows in the 40s. Dry air means no rain.

The 12Z GFS hints at a cold front passing through late Monday of next week, perhaps bringing a band of showers in here, but at the moment it looks like moisture will be limited and rain totals won’t be too heavy.

SANDY ALMOST INLAND: The big storm is near the southern New Jersey coast, and is becoming post-tropical. Tropical storm force winds extend out almost 500 miles from the center, and coastal flooding is severe along and to the north of the landfall point. There are large scale power outages, most all major airports have suspended operations, and the New York transit system including the subways are shut down. This will be a storm of historic proportion, and we can only hope that folks in the flood prone areas evacuated as ordered yesterday.

Blizzard conditions are developing in the cold air over the mountains of West Virginia, and heavy snow is likely down into the North Carolina mountains as well.

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