Colder And Drier Tonight And Tomorrow

The Monday afternoon map discussion video is on the server:

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

Colder and drier air will move into Alabama tonight and tomorrow following a band of showers and storms late this morning. Those storms are now moving into the southeast part of the state where a Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect.

Tomorrow will be a sunny but cool day with lots of sunshine and highs in the 50s.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT/THURSDAY: Looks like Wednesday will be dry, but showers and storms are possible after midnight Wednesday night into the day Thursday with an upper impulse moving through. Severe weather is not likely, and rain probably won't be all that heavy on Thursday.

FRIDAY/FRIDAY NIGHT: A much stronger system will bring another round of showers and storms in here by Friday afternoon or Friday night. This one will be very robust, and the dynamics will certainly support a threat of severe weather. As always in January, there is some question concerning the amount of mT (maritime tropical) air available and the associated instability, but with the Gulf of Mexico being open for a couple of days, I am concerned severe storms will be a very real possibility. The 12Z GFS suggests the best chance of severe weather will come from about 3:00 p.m. Friday through midnight Friday night, but that will probably change as we get closer to the event.

SATURDAY: A rapidly deepening surface low will move north of Alabama, and will pull down sharply colder air into the state with brisk north winds. Wrap around clouds look likely much of the state, and there could even be a few snow flurries over the Tennessee Valley of extreme North Alabama. Places like Huntsville and Scottsboro might remain in the 30s much of the day, while we stuggle to get into the low 40s down here.

LONG RANGE: The weather still looks very cold for the eastern half of the U.S. through much of February. I do think the weather will be considably colder down this way as well, and some mischief is very possible in the southern branch of the storm track along the way. Stay tuned...

We are working on getting for Storm Alert 2006 production all finished up and ready to go... I will have the next map discussion video on the server by 7:00 a.m. tomorrow!
Posted by Max  
on January 30, 2006, 4:01 pm
National Weather Service in Huntsville still is scared to lower highs below 50 for Sat-Monday and no mention of even a flurry,while in neighboring Giles Co. Tenn, there is a 30% chance of snow Sat night.Nashville gets it...james gets it...NWS Huntsville acts like chikens all the time.

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Posted by Susan  
on January 30, 2006, 6:16 pm
I just finished typing in a paragraph about the major but short lived wind we had in Bluff Park. When I tried to post, I had a message the verification code was wrong. Is there any way the message you typed could be saved if you have to redo the code?

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Posted by Stephanie Honeycutt  
on January 30, 2006, 6:48 pm
Susan

I have this problem all the time. I get the zero's and the letter O's confused, because the letters are so small. But I never had to re type the message. Wonder if that is a new thing?? I hope not!

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Posted by Josh  
on January 30, 2006, 7:36 pm
Susan, all you have too do is click the Back button if you type in the wrong code. That's all you have to do and it won't be lost.

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Posted by John T.  
on January 30, 2006, 7:53 pm
NO, I know what Susan is talking about. The other a.m. I went to send a message and entered the wrong code, ( like Stephanie is talking about) when I went back my message was gone. Mine was quite lengthy, was yours Susan? This is the only time my message was erased though. I think I sent it at the same time another message was being sent. Don't know if that had any thing to do with it however. I just had to say oh-well & go onto work. Just one of those things I guess.

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Posted by Susan  
on January 30, 2006, 9:06 pm
Mine was a little lengthy, but also in the moment. By the time I finished it, the wind I was writing about was long gone, so there was no point retyping it.
I did click back, but got the page you enter stuff on, with nothing on it.
Oh well, not a heartbreaker, but thanks for your responses...
I'll try the code again now...
I do appreciate the need for it...

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Posted by  
on January 30, 2006, 10:19 pm
Hey Susan I had the same proplem but if you hit the back butten than you should not lose your post. Because that is what I do and I don't lose anything. I just go and re enter the code.

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