The Winds Of March

The Thursday afternoon web video is online:

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

I love March Madness. Mississippi State about to play Georgia over in Atlanta... has the chance to meet Winsome Frazier over in Starkville this past weekend. Will be pulling for MSU as usual. Would love to see Bama and Auburn win a few as well.

Another clipper will bring come clouds in here tonight and tomorrow morning, but nothing more than a few sprinkles will fall from those clouds due to the low level dry air. The winds of March will really be blowing, west winds could gust as high as 30 to 35 mph tomorrow. Time to get out the kites.

Saturday should be a nice day, but still an amazing variation in high temperature forecasts from model output. The GFS shows 66 on Saturday, but the NAM and NGM show 51. We will stick with 61 for now.

A weak cold front will then trigger a few showers Sunday night and Monday morning, but once again the moisture will be limited and rain totals should be light.

ST PATRICK'S DAY STORM: This is the next big system to watch. Every model run looks different; the latest 12Z GFS takes the big surface low from the Texas Panhandle, along I-40, to near Nashville. This would suggest the threat of heavy rain, severe weather, or both.

The European has the surface low near Mobile.

One way or another, a major storm will affect Alabama in the March 16-19 time frame. Just too early to tell if we will deal with snow, heavy rain, severe weather, or some kind of combination. This might be the big, bad storm that breaks down the block and gets us in a more progressive and stormy pattern for the latter half of March...
Posted by   www
on March 10, 2005, 6:27 pm
Not that is was anything to write home about but I had chunks of sluch mixed in the with heaviest rain when I left Southside heading to Shelby Co coming through Red Mountain and Mountain Brook. It was 75% rain and 25% slush that melted fast. It still something neat when the harder it rains the colder the air becomes. When the rain was light is was nothing but rain. I am used to Marchs where I have been fresh water fishing for crappie for month almost by now. For the lack of snow is has been cool and keeping everything held back. I am off the 19-28 so maybe the warm and stormy good fishing weather will hit me right on vacation.

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