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I just love JB's way with words!! Showers as scarce as kudzu in Canada! And that certainly gets the point across for us as the radar remains relatively free of showers especially along and north of a line from Columbus, MS, to Birmingham to Anniston. Scattered showers were observed south of that line, but very few were getting wet.
The drying trend seems to be in vogue through mid-week, but we certainly can't remove showers completely from the forecast. That is quite evident by a few lone showers west and northwest of Nashville. Precipitable water values on the Birmingham upper air sounding this morning were below 2 inches.
Moisture returns a little toward the end of the week with a weak front reaching to just north of Nashville, so our rain chances go up a smidge over the weekend.
Tropics have become very quiet. There was that one area of disturbed weather southwest of Bermuda where a tropical depression may be forming. Outside of that, there were not many clouds across the southwest Atlantic, Gulf, and Carribbean.
Latest GFS model does not advertise much change in our weather pattern for the next couple of weeks. Of course, beyond 5 or 6 days a lot can change - and probably will - so we'll keep watch on what trends do appear.
Lots of clouds on the satellite imagery across the Gulf coast, so I hope James and his family have lots of sunscreen! We don't need a sunburned James Spann to return to work next week.
My dog has as much trouble with the hot weather as Ms. Molly does. Tune in tomorrow for a picture of Dakota giving me the evil eye for taking her picture.
Stay cool.
-Brian-