The Monday afternoon map discussion video is on the server:
http://beta.abc3340.com/weather/video.hrb
Give you a good example of the "media hype" involving the current hot spell. The weather provider for the Birmingham News forecast a high of 100 for Birmingham today (see this morning's paper and the forecast for Birmingham on the weather page)!!!! No knock on my friends at the News, but I would suggest they might want to discuss this with their weather vendor. As of 3:00 p.m. Birmingham's high was 93.
No change in our forecast thinking; temperatures slowly back off and rain chances go up during the latter half of the week. A surface boundary should stall out near the Alabama/Tennessee border on Thursday and Friday, when much of the state should get wet. Maybe even some strong storms Thursday afternoon or Thursday night.
That surface front is bringing in a nice cool change in the weather for our pals up in the midwest that have really been struggling with the heat in recent days; places like Chicago, Milwaukee, Omaha, and Minneapolis.
I still thinking this will be the hottest period of the summer... don't see anything to suggest mid 90s or higher in model output through mid-August. Of course, we can have hot weather well into September.
TROPICS: Check out the video for details... running short on time this afternoon. Franklin going nowhere through mid-week, and the parade of waves continues off the coast of Africa. And, see that huge dust cloud coming across the Atlantic from the Sahara!
**We should mention that the code orange ozone alert has been extended into tomorrow**
http://beta.abc3340.com/weather/video.hrb
Give you a good example of the "media hype" involving the current hot spell. The weather provider for the Birmingham News forecast a high of 100 for Birmingham today (see this morning's paper and the forecast for Birmingham on the weather page)!!!! No knock on my friends at the News, but I would suggest they might want to discuss this with their weather vendor. As of 3:00 p.m. Birmingham's high was 93.
No change in our forecast thinking; temperatures slowly back off and rain chances go up during the latter half of the week. A surface boundary should stall out near the Alabama/Tennessee border on Thursday and Friday, when much of the state should get wet. Maybe even some strong storms Thursday afternoon or Thursday night.
That surface front is bringing in a nice cool change in the weather for our pals up in the midwest that have really been struggling with the heat in recent days; places like Chicago, Milwaukee, Omaha, and Minneapolis.
I still thinking this will be the hottest period of the summer... don't see anything to suggest mid 90s or higher in model output through mid-August. Of course, we can have hot weather well into September.
TROPICS: Check out the video for details... running short on time this afternoon. Franklin going nowhere through mid-week, and the parade of waves continues off the coast of Africa. And, see that huge dust cloud coming across the Atlantic from the Sahara!
**We should mention that the code orange ozone alert has been extended into tomorrow**
on July 25, 2005, 3:59 pm
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