SA 2005 One More Time...

Getting set for our last Storm Alert 2005 stop tonight at Mountaintop Community Church in Vestavia... we begin at 7:00, get there early to get a good seat!

The Wednesday afternoon video is on the server:

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

Here are the key points:

*TOMORROW'S GULF STORM: Sure looks like all of the precipitation will stay south of us. I guess you can't rule out the chance of a few ice pellets, snow flakes, or some drizzle late tonight, but no big deal. All of the significant rain will be over the southern third of the state.

*SATURDAY CLIPPER: Little moisture means little chance of rain. Maybe a few sprinkles late in the day, but most of the light snow or rain should stay north of Alabama.

*BIG STORM EARLY NEXT WEEK: This is the next major feature to watch. The latest GFS shows a phased storm, with the surface low moving from Dallas to Nasvhille and then to near Philadelphia. We should get a good rain and storm event Monday night. I am not convinced the air can recover enough for severe weather, but it is not out of the question. Then, strong north winds kick in on Tuesday with another shot of very cold air. Looks like another good freeze for Alabama toward the middle of next week, either Wednesday or Thursday morning.

Beyond that details are muddy; the GFS tries its best to bring a northern branch system through here around March 10-11 with some light snow over north Alabama, but I sure don't buy that yet.

Gotta run get ready for tonight's show... hope to see you there.
Posted by   www
on March 2, 2005, 5:32 pm
The faintest of faint hopes: radar out of Arkansas shows heavier rain moving SE out of middle Arkansas. Who knows......low dewpoints, heavier precip, temps in the 30's.......maybe a few wet snowflakes. Never know, stranger things have happened but not too many!!!

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Posted by Joey Calabro  
on March 2, 2005, 6:04 pm
I have a good gutt feeling that it will snow more than expected. I live in Tuscaloosa and think for once I might be in a good location for snow if it happens on the northern end of the precip.

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Posted by   www
on March 2, 2005, 6:32 pm
The rain is getting up to heavy levels in intesity on the radar and the 18Z GFS now has precip across north Miss with a strip of darker green. Temp here is still in the upper 40's so we have a ways to go. We could get snow at say 35 that we could at least look at. Very interesting though I must say. But we have 10-15 more degrees to go and precip in Little Rock, Ark has to make it here. Still TONS of IFs. Fun to watch though and it would be amazing if something happened out of nothing.

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Posted by   www
on March 2, 2005, 8:40 pm
Still heavy precip leaving East Ark moving into NW Miss. Temp here in North Shelby was 43 and hour ago. Still a ways to go.

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