Rain Gone but Clouds Stay

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The rain and storms have pushed off to the east of Central Alabama, and we’re now experiencing cold air advection. Clouds will hold in across the area for much of the day with some breaks allowing peeks at the sun from time to time. But the high for the day has already occurred, and we should see the temperature continue to fall through the 50s today.

With the rain gone, we will see sunny weather through much of the week ahead, but an Arctic blast will bring some of the coldest air to Central Alabama that we’ve seen since last January. The cold air will arrive Wednesday and Thursday, and plunge the morning lows to near record values. The record low for next Thursday is 7 degrees and it is 5 degrees for Friday. I don’t think we’ll get quite that cold, but we are likely to see some of the typically colder spots dip into single digits. The deep upper trough over the eastern half of the country will slowly modify as we head into the weekend with temperatures recovering nicely with lows around freezing and highs in the lower 50s.

A strong short wave trough moving out of the Rockies late next weekend promises our next chance for wet weather to come as we verge into voodoo country late Sunday or Monday. We’ll have to watch the timing for that event which is a long way out.

Voodoo country maintains a generally cold look to it with yet another strong short wave trough that may bring severe weather to the southern US around the 19th of January. But you seasoned veterans know that that is way out in voodoo country, and it is likely to change on future model runs.

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-Brian-

Category: Alabama's Weather