The afternoon video is posted and ready for viewing:
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Very difficult temperature forecast tomorrow. By midday Muscle Shoals could be in the 30s, the Birmingham metro in the 46 to 52 range, and Clanton closer to 60. Not a "one number" day.
Look at the contrast on the front today... at 2:00 Shreveport had 73, while Oklahoma City reported 21. A 52 degree swing on either side of the front over a relatively small distance!
Models also strongly showing a wave on the front which will enhance the rain by Friday afternoon. You have to wonder if this might mean some icing up in Arkansas or Tennessee. Just not cold enough down here, however.
We warm up again this weekend, and could see low 70s by the first part of next week.
BUT.... the 12Z is back on the "Polar Express" kick for Alabama in about nine to ten days. I have to think this is the correct solution; I would plan on a sharp change to much colder weather in the January 14 to 17 time frame. With the vast snow cover over the nation, I have to wonder if this will get some of the colder spots in north Alabama in the single digits for the first time this year.
No hard evidence of freezing rain with the cold air blast, but we will see many different model looks as the change approaches. We have to keep that open as a possibility; shallow cold air with a southwest flow aloft.
**On another note... great job by our new man Jason Simpson this morning. The kid from Holly Pond is a real winner. Jason is the new weekday morning meteorologist; if you missed him today watch Good Morning Alabama tomorrow.
http://beta.abc3340.com/weather/video.hrb
Very difficult temperature forecast tomorrow. By midday Muscle Shoals could be in the 30s, the Birmingham metro in the 46 to 52 range, and Clanton closer to 60. Not a "one number" day.
Look at the contrast on the front today... at 2:00 Shreveport had 73, while Oklahoma City reported 21. A 52 degree swing on either side of the front over a relatively small distance!
Models also strongly showing a wave on the front which will enhance the rain by Friday afternoon. You have to wonder if this might mean some icing up in Arkansas or Tennessee. Just not cold enough down here, however.
We warm up again this weekend, and could see low 70s by the first part of next week.
BUT.... the 12Z is back on the "Polar Express" kick for Alabama in about nine to ten days. I have to think this is the correct solution; I would plan on a sharp change to much colder weather in the January 14 to 17 time frame. With the vast snow cover over the nation, I have to wonder if this will get some of the colder spots in north Alabama in the single digits for the first time this year.
No hard evidence of freezing rain with the cold air blast, but we will see many different model looks as the change approaches. We have to keep that open as a possibility; shallow cold air with a southwest flow aloft.
**On another note... great job by our new man Jason Simpson this morning. The kid from Holly Pond is a real winner. Jason is the new weekday morning meteorologist; if you missed him today watch Good Morning Alabama tomorrow.
on January 5, 2005, 5:22 pm
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