Monotonous Forecasts Begin

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I just hate to see those monotonous forecasts begin again, but the summertime weather pattern across Alabama and the southeastern United States is one typically devoid of traveling systems. So it appears that for the next several days - until the end of the upcoming week - that we will be in a hot, muggy, isolated shower pattern. I'm already getting requests from people for rain after May started out fairly wet.

A strong ridge in the upper atmosphere will be with us through about the middle of the week. The pattern begins to undergo a substantial change then as the strong ridge wekens and moves east while a new trough develops over the eastern half of the country.

As that trough develops and intensifies on Thursday and Friday, the GFS is showing signs of a cold front moving through Alabama on Thursday and Friday. With a nice northwesterly flow pattern aloft, this should set the stage for a change in air mass with drier air for Central Alabama on Friday and Saturday. Morning lows might even flirt with the 60-degree mark.

My big concern, however, is the calendar. Fronts just have a hard time getting here. I really hope the GFS is right, but since the forecast we're talking about is at least 5 to 6 days out, my confidence is not very high.

I hope you have time today or Memorial Day to spend time with your family. I'll be filling in for John Oldshue on the 5 and 10 o'clock news, and I hope you can tune in.

Have a great weekend and upcoming week. God bless.

-Brian-