Afternoon Look at Alabama Weather

The morning run of the GFS is in the house and it points to some interesting possibilities for Alabama Wednesday night and Thursday.

Our first system brings rain into Alabama late tonight and becomes widespread and steady on Sunday. Rainfall amounts will average 0.75-1.50 inches before the rain ends slowly from the northwest late Sunday night into Monday afternoon.

Tuesday is a dry day, but low pressure develops over the western Gulf and moves across the northern Florida Peninsula Wednesday night. As it does, colder air is drawn into Alabama, and there might be enough residual moisture to cause 1 to 2 inches of snow across North and Central Alabama. The changeover would happen from the northwest during the late evening and through the overnight hours. Temperatures would be falling through the 30s during the night, and be near freezing across all of North and Central Alabama by morning. There would be some lingering snow flurries and snow showers, especially over Northeast sections on Tuesday.

So, snow fans, it is early in the game, but this could be the best chance we have seen so far for an accumulating snow, although it looks light.

Again, it is early in the forecasting game, and things will change from run to run. This is just a plausible possibility at this time.

It is a chilly, cloudy day, with temperatures in the 40s across the area. Reaching 50 at any one location looks unlikely now.

Patches of light rain are showing up in Northwest Alabama now, but this precipitation is not reaching the ground yet due to the dry atmosphere. The closest station reporting rain at noon was Little Rock, although some rain is probably occurring south of Memphis in the Delta. Greenville and Greenwood both cloudy, although light rain was reported at Greenville earlier.

We should remain mostly dry through the evening hours, with rain spreading in from the west later tonight.

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