Summertime Is Here

The Monday afternoon map discussion video is on the server:

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

I know the summer solstice was last week, and you can sure confirm that by looking at the maps today. All of the good action in the mid-latitude westerlies is way up north; over the northern U.S. and Canada. The weather here will be very slow to change over the next seven days.

Late June in Alabama means very warm and very humid weather, and there will be sufficient moisture for scattered showers and storms on a daily basis. A weak upper air circulation center is north of the state now, and should meander around while weakening through mid-week. The WRF still suggests the best chance of a shower tomorrow will come along and south of I-59, while the NAM wants to paint the best coverage of showers over the southeast part of the state, generally southeast of Montgomery.

There simply isn't enough evidence to make us vary much from the typical summer forecast for the rest of the week and into the holiday weekend.

TROPICS: Watching the mass of storms over the Gulf of Mexico; there seems to be a 40 to 50 knot speed max in that region at 300mb (jet stream level), not what you want to see for tropical development. Elsewhere the tropics are quiet....

I have about 10 people in line waiting to get into the office to see me about various issues (I hope nothing bad... I will keep this short today and watch the video for the long story...