The Tuesday morning map discussion video is on the server:
http://beta.abc3340.com/weather/video.hrb
I also have posted the one hour Storm Alert 2006 TV special on that page if you missed it Sunday night.
Let me say up front the maps look pretty tame here for the next 15 days. For now, we don't see any major weather or flooding issues, and no more late season freezing problems. Can't promise we will be able to say that for the latter half of April, however. But for now we seem to be in pretty good shape. A mean ridge over Florida will push the big spring storm systems north of Alabama... they will run from the southern plains up to the Great Lakes region.
TODAY: A weak surface boundary will bring a little light rain or a few sprinkles to the state. Very dry air remains near the surface, so some communities won't have enough rain to measure. And, it looks like the rain has ended this morning north of a line from Millport to Huntsville, and any showers this afternoon should be mostly south of I-20. Temperatures won't climb all that much today due to the evaoprative cooling process, but we should reach the low 60s.
TOMORROW/THURSDAY: The weather looks pretty good. We soar into the 70s as the warming trend continues. Guess a few scattered showers might show up by Thursday afternoon, but no wash out.
FRIDAY/FRIDAY NIGHT: A strong storm system moves up toward the Great Lakes, and the trailing front will bring a band of showers and stortms to Alabama. Looks like the best chance of rain will come from about 4:00 p.m. Friday through 2:00 a.m. Saturday. SPC has the northern part of Alabama in a slight risk for severe weather, but with the upper dynamics so far north and weakening wind fields, it is really hard to get excited about severe weather possibilities this far south.
THE WEEKEND: Dry and mild weather headlines our weekend forecast; highs well up in the 70s. Some spots might touch 80 on Sunday.
NEXT WEEK: The 06Z GFS has lost the wave early next week... doesn't mean it won't happen, and we will still mention a chance of showers and storms in the Monday-Tuesday time frame for now.
WEATHER BRAINS: We taped the WeatherBrains podcast last night, and I will have it posted soon. Very interesting show this week; David Black had an excellent interview with Max Mayfield, the diretor of the National Hurricane Center. He also has audio of amateur radio operator Jack Blair reporting the tornado damage at the Goshen United Methodist Church on March 27, 1994... minutes later Jack would find out his wife was killed in the church. The podcast should be available soon on iTunes and via RSS. I will post a note here when it is ready.
TODAY: I will be down in Columbiana today speaking to the pre-schoolers at First Baptist Church. I will be in the office later and the afternoon map discussion will be posted by 3:30. Also, thanks to the 2nd graders at Shades Cahaba Elementary in Homewood yesterday; they were a great audience!
http://beta.abc3340.com/weather/video.hrb
I also have posted the one hour Storm Alert 2006 TV special on that page if you missed it Sunday night.
Let me say up front the maps look pretty tame here for the next 15 days. For now, we don't see any major weather or flooding issues, and no more late season freezing problems. Can't promise we will be able to say that for the latter half of April, however. But for now we seem to be in pretty good shape. A mean ridge over Florida will push the big spring storm systems north of Alabama... they will run from the southern plains up to the Great Lakes region.
TODAY: A weak surface boundary will bring a little light rain or a few sprinkles to the state. Very dry air remains near the surface, so some communities won't have enough rain to measure. And, it looks like the rain has ended this morning north of a line from Millport to Huntsville, and any showers this afternoon should be mostly south of I-20. Temperatures won't climb all that much today due to the evaoprative cooling process, but we should reach the low 60s.
TOMORROW/THURSDAY: The weather looks pretty good. We soar into the 70s as the warming trend continues. Guess a few scattered showers might show up by Thursday afternoon, but no wash out.
FRIDAY/FRIDAY NIGHT: A strong storm system moves up toward the Great Lakes, and the trailing front will bring a band of showers and stortms to Alabama. Looks like the best chance of rain will come from about 4:00 p.m. Friday through 2:00 a.m. Saturday. SPC has the northern part of Alabama in a slight risk for severe weather, but with the upper dynamics so far north and weakening wind fields, it is really hard to get excited about severe weather possibilities this far south.
THE WEEKEND: Dry and mild weather headlines our weekend forecast; highs well up in the 70s. Some spots might touch 80 on Sunday.
NEXT WEEK: The 06Z GFS has lost the wave early next week... doesn't mean it won't happen, and we will still mention a chance of showers and storms in the Monday-Tuesday time frame for now.
WEATHER BRAINS: We taped the WeatherBrains podcast last night, and I will have it posted soon. Very interesting show this week; David Black had an excellent interview with Max Mayfield, the diretor of the National Hurricane Center. He also has audio of amateur radio operator Jack Blair reporting the tornado damage at the Goshen United Methodist Church on March 27, 1994... minutes later Jack would find out his wife was killed in the church. The podcast should be available soon on iTunes and via RSS. I will post a note here when it is ready.
TODAY: I will be down in Columbiana today speaking to the pre-schoolers at First Baptist Church. I will be in the office later and the afternoon map discussion will be posted by 3:30. Also, thanks to the 2nd graders at Shades Cahaba Elementary in Homewood yesterday; they were a great audience!