Video update is being posted as this is being typed:
http://beta.abc3340.com/weather/video.hrb
The general idea has not changed much. Periods of rain and storms today and tonight with the threat of flooding, and a risk of strong to severe storms early tomorrow morning with the biggest potential problem coming from damaging straight line winds.
Additional rainfall amounts of 2 inches or so are likely through midday tomorrow, and needless to say the ground is saturated.
The squall line will come through tomorrow morning during the best possible time of day, when the air is most stable. We figure it will roll in here sometime between 3:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. Hopefully we will get away with just strong storms with gusty winds, but the wind profiles still suggest we could see some tree and powerline damage in bow echo segments. The GFS has backed off a little on the 850 mb winds (about 5,000 feet), now showing a max of about 45 knots over us early in the morning.
Thanksgiving looks pretty cold. We will probably be in the 40s all day with a very chilly northwest wind, and a light freeze early Friday looks more and more likely for a majority of north and central Alabama communities.
More fun and games come down the road... some rain returns over the weekend, and we might have another flood threat during the first half of next week. Another significant storm shows up in the December 5-6 time frame. Busy days in the weather office...
I
http://beta.abc3340.com/weather/video.hrb
The general idea has not changed much. Periods of rain and storms today and tonight with the threat of flooding, and a risk of strong to severe storms early tomorrow morning with the biggest potential problem coming from damaging straight line winds.
Additional rainfall amounts of 2 inches or so are likely through midday tomorrow, and needless to say the ground is saturated.
The squall line will come through tomorrow morning during the best possible time of day, when the air is most stable. We figure it will roll in here sometime between 3:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. Hopefully we will get away with just strong storms with gusty winds, but the wind profiles still suggest we could see some tree and powerline damage in bow echo segments. The GFS has backed off a little on the 850 mb winds (about 5,000 feet), now showing a max of about 45 knots over us early in the morning.
Thanksgiving looks pretty cold. We will probably be in the 40s all day with a very chilly northwest wind, and a light freeze early Friday looks more and more likely for a majority of north and central Alabama communities.
More fun and games come down the road... some rain returns over the weekend, and we might have another flood threat during the first half of next week. Another significant storm shows up in the December 5-6 time frame. Busy days in the weather office...
I
on November 23, 2004, 8:41 am
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