Nice Saturday After Stormy Friday

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No thunder to wake up to this morning for Central Alabama as a cold front has moved to the Gulf Coast ushering in some slightly cooler and drier air. Highs today will be about the same as yesterday, however, the air will be much drier with dew points dipping back into the 40s. But don’t get used to the nice weather since the weather pattern is shaping up to be somewhat unsettled for much of the week ahead.

The unsettled weather with the potential for some heavy rain on Monday will be a result of the active southern stream and an upper level flow from the southwest that will keep us rather wet with precipitable water values climbing above an inch and three quarters. We will see weak ridging over the Southeast US, however, with the moisture laden southwesterly flow and a series of weak disturbances moving through that flow, our weather will be unsettled with rain chances every day until the end of the week.

At the end of the week, a strong trough in the northern stream is forecast to dig into the Central US and hopefully kick our unsettled weather pattern east. The strong trough may bring severe weather possibilities with it, but we’ll wait on making a forecast on this feature until we get a closer to the event.

GULF COAST WEATHER: There will be a limited amount of sunshine today from Panama City westward to Gulf Shores with a chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms; highs will be in the 70s. Then, very similar weather for much of next week…. about 3 to 5 hours of sun with the daily risk of showers or thunderstorms with highs in the 70s. At last check, the sea water temperature at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab was 72 degrees.

The weather pattern remains somewhat active out into Week 2 or voodoo country. The GFS shows another strong trough moving through the Central US around the 20th of April and then the model closes off a low over the Ohio River Valley. If this pattern comes about we could see some much unseasonably cooler weather for the latter part of April.

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I expect to have the next Weather Xtreme Video posted here first thing on Sunday morning. Enjoy this lovely April day and Godspeed.

-Brian-

Category: Alabama's Weather