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I'm certainly not the music expert that James Spann is, but I think my post title comes from a line in a song - at least that is what I remember. But I can't tell you who did it or the name of the song.
So Happy Father's Day to all you fathers out there. Hope you get to enjoy your day. I'm a father and looking forward to spending a few days in Chicago with my daughter next weekend. Got to work today as City Stages will be winding up the 2006 edition of the festival with some great acts. I'm hoping the weather holds so that I can get out there to the Coca Cola stage - I even have back stage passes for Hermans Hermits and the Beach Boys.
Leftover cloudiness from thunderstorms to our west yesterday should be waning across the northern third of Alabama this morning giving way to a good deal of sunshine. Temperatures yesterday climbed back to the lower 90s, but with the dewpoints hovering around the upper 50s, the heat did not seem quite so bad. There is a sizeable contrast in dewpoints this morning with values in the lower 60s and upper 50s east of a line from Decatur to Montgomery. East of that line values are running in the lower 70s. I expect to see thunderstorms fire once again this afternoon in Mississippi, but it would seem that the dryer, more stable air from Birmingham eastward will keep storms to a minimum. All bets go off should there be some boundary out there that I just don't see at the moment.
Monday I think we'll see the chances for rain increase dramatically with most of us getting some rain - perhaps as much as 1 to 1.25 inches of rain. Rain is still a need for us, so I'll take it. My yard was sure happy with that rain last week.
The weak upper trough to our west gets here Monday as it phases with a short wave trough moving out of South Central Canada. The phased trough moves east and the Southeast US along with the whole southern tier of the country comes under high pressure aloft by mid-week. I think we'll be dry Tuesday and Wednesday returning to a pattern of scattered afternoon showers on Thursday and Friday.
The long range forecast continues to hold on to a trough over the eastern half of the country. The GFS has been relatively consistent in this though the magnitude of the trough changes from run-to-run.
Certainly happy to have you reading and watching our map discussion. Hope your Father's Day is a good one. Stay cool and God bless.
-Brian-