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Back to business... I am going through the 18Z data set as I write this, and a couple of things stick out:

*I don't expect any severe weather problems around here tomorrow night and Tuesday morning... once again we will not have any surface based instability.

*We might have a period of light snow on the back side of the big storm tomorrow night or early Wednesday morning. Nothing to really get overly excited about, but people probably will anyway!

I will have the full Monday morning post and video ready by 6:15 am tomorrow!

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James Spann

The Sunday map discussion video is on the server at:

http://beta.abc3340.com/weather/video.hrb

A little rushed this morning in getting the video prepared with ushering duties at church and some trouble with the color on the video camera. Please forgive the darker shots. I'll try to figure that out when I've got more time.

A chilly start to the day with morning lows generally in the upper 20s. We should see good warming today with filtered sunshine through some mid and high clouds. Still expect temperatures to recover about 10 degrees or so from those cold highs yesterday. And no windy conditions to deal with today.

The next weather system begins to affect us on Monday and this system is beginning to take on a similar look to the one we had last Friday. The dynamics look good but the thermodynamics don't seem to be doing well. The Gulf is cut off today and as it opens on Monday higher dewpoints should be confined to the coastal areas. However, with the strength of this system, heavy rains are possible with the QPF forecast suggesting as much as 4 inches across northwest Alabama.

The front moves through central Alabama around midday on Tuesday, but there seems to be a good deal of moisuture behind the front so as temperatures plummet we'll have to deal with the threat of snow flurries Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. This system has the potential for a more widespread flurry event than the last one.

The GFS is forecasting a rather quick warmup into Thursday as the upper level pattern goes southwesterly. The next in the series of disturbances approaches on Friday promising a wet start to the weekend.

Again, sorry to be a little rushed this morning. Hope you have a good Sunday and a good upcoming week.

-Brian-