Model Sounding Data

Weather professionals and enthusiasts alike are scrambling to get a look at the latest model runs. Just like many, I’ve been glued to my computer anxiously awaiting the latest data based on the morning upper air soundings and latest observations. It takes awhile to digest all of it, and Bill Murray has already been doing some of that.

I took a quick look at the model sounding data, and if anything, conditions have gotten slightly better for ice storm conditions in the Birmingham metro area and along the Interstate 20 corridor. The GFS continues to put temperatures aloft over Birmingham right along the zero-degree mark from about 940 millibars upward to 740 millibars or so. The NAM on the other hand continues to show temperatures in that same section over Birmingham about 1 to 2 degrees Centigrade warmer than the GFS. So even though we are six to eight hours closer to the event with a whole new set of updated data, it still shakes out about the way I described it in the Weather Xtreme Video.

So, please, take time today to do a little advance planning to be ready for whatever Mother Nature brings our way. And please know we are not trying to scare anyone – you are certainly free to do whatever you want. But I think prudent folks will heed the call and be ready. And should I miss the icing band by 10 miles or a 100 miles, you can still eat your storehouse of preparation.

-Brian-

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