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Big Warm-Up For The Weekend

| March 14, 2013 @ 5:58 am

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FRIGID MARCH MORNING: Here are some pre-dawn temperatures reported from our Skywatchers and the official observation stations across Alabama…

Black Creek (just northeast of Gadsden) 24
Cullman 26
Fayette 26
Haleyville 27
Russellville 27
Center Point 29
Lake View (Tuscaloosa County) 29
Birmingham 30
Trussville 32

We warm into the mid to upper 50s today with sunny sky. Won’t be as windy as yesterday.

VERY MILD WEEKEND: Looks like we will enjoy highs in the 73-77 degree range tomorrow through Sunday; it will be the warmest weekend so far in 2013. The sky will be mostly sunny tomorrow and Saturday; some clouds will show up Sunday, but some sun should still get through at times. Showers on Sunday should stay north of here, closer to a surface boundary over Tennessee.

STRONG STORMS MONDAY? The GFS is printing a high of 78 degrees for Birmingham Monday, and the air becomes unstable with surface based CAPE values rising to levels over 500 j/kg by afternoon. This is more than sufficient for strong storms this time of the year, but thankfully the main dynamic support with the next system will remain pretty far north of here, and the big shear values remain up north as well. Still, a strong storm or two is certainly possible Monday evening into Monday night along the front, so we will watch parameters closely in coming days. Rain amounts of about 1/2 inch look likely.

Tuesday and Wednesday will be dry and slightly cooler with highs back into the 60-65 degree range. Then, the weather looks unsettled Thursday through Saturday (March 21-23) with moist air returning and a front just to the north. See the Weather Xtreme video for the maps, graphics, and details.

AT THE BEACH: Look for sunny days and fair nights through Sunday. Highs will be in the 60s today and tomorrow, and close to 70 over the weekend. The sea water temperature early this morning at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab is a very cool 56 degrees; that will limit the ability of the air to warm much along the immediate coast. Next week, at first glance it looks like showers are possible Monday night, followed by mostly dry weather for the mid-week period.

NEED SOME HELP WITH YOUR WEATHER RADIO? We will be at the Publix in Oxford this afternoon from 3:30 until 6:30… if you need your weather radio programmed… have questions, or need to buy a new one, then come see us.

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I will be speaking this morning at First Baptist Church of Columbiana… and then I head over to Oxford to program weather radio receivers at the Publix. Won’t be able to produce an afternoon Weather Xtreme video, but I will have some forecast notes here. Enjoy the day!

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