Noon Update

Sorry for the lack of a video today, but my location in the Race Control Building at Barber Motorsports Park just does not lend itself to preparing a video.

High cirrus clouds continue to stream across the sky of Central Alabama. While the clouds dim the sun somewhat, temperatures have warmed nicely from the upper 30s this morning to near 70 just before noon. With surface high pressure off to our northeast, the surface wind has come around to the southeast with wind speeds in the range of 8 to 12 mph. Looks like Sunday will be a close duplicate of today with a few more clouds but highs should still reach the middle 70s.

The new 12Z run from the GFS has reached 156 hours, and it continues to bring the next major system into Alabama late Wednesday and early Thursday. If this timing comes to be correct, we might avoid a significant round of severe weather. Under the latest run, the major severe weather threat would be centered on Arkansas. But with the continuing inconsistency in timing from model run to model run, we’ll still need to keep a wary eye on how this system shapes up. At this writing, the European run was not available for comparison.

-Brian-

Category: Alabama's Weather