Next Week Looks Wet

The Friday morning video is on the server:

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

Thanks to the huge crowd who came out last night to the Storm Alert 2005 show in Hanceville. We had a blast.

Coming weather attractions:

*Cool and dry weather continues today and tomorrow with a gradual increase in clouds. We will still mention a good chance of rain developing late tomorrow night and Sunday, although the latest run of the GFS keeps much of the rain north of I-20 on Sunday.

*Next week looks very wet. A stalled front, a southwest flow aloft, and an upper air storm over the southwest U.S. is a pretty good setup for several rounds of rain, and I still have concern over flash flooding before the rain ends toward the end of the week. Some thunder is also a good bet at times, but I don't see any strong evidence of any significant severe weather threat at this point. We will keep an eye on the wave expected on the front toward the middle of next week, however.

*GFS still advertising a cold snap toward the end of the month and the first of March. No record breaking cold or anything like that, but the pattern looks pretty chilly. And, the snow lovers like that active southern branch in the split flow. No way the GFS can resolve southern stream systems this far in advance; it has tried to spit out a variety of storms in the Gulf of Mexico at different places on different days. Just too early to get excited, but that is a fun pattern to watch. Once again, winter is far from over.