The Friday afternoon map discussion video is on the web, and also available on iTunes:
http://www.jamesspann.com/
Our parade of summer hits rolls along:
"Hot town, summer in the city
Back of my neck getting dirty and gritty
Been down, isn't it a pity
Doesn't seem to be a shadow in the city
All around, people looking half dead
Walking on the sidewalk, hotter than a match head
But at night it's a different world
Go out and find a girl
Come-on come-on and dance all night
Despite the heat it'll be alright
And babe, don't you know it's a pity
That the days can't be like the nights
In the summer, in the city
In the summer, in the city"
That was from John B. Sebastian and the Lovin' Spoonful from 1966. What a great song to play on the radio on a summer afternoon.
Lets move on from the hit parade to the heat parade...
The hot weather continues for the next five days and beyond... daytime high temperatures will remain in the 94 to 98 degree range for most spots through early next week. The big question everyone asks is WHEN WILL IT RAIN?
The answer is that is actually rains every day, but as you know, the showers are very scattered. We have a classic example of that on the radar today; much of the Alabama countryside is dry, but a few neighborhoods are getting wet.
THE WEEKEND: The GFS actually tries to bring a surface boundary through there tomorrow night, and it suggests a little better coverage of afternoon showers and storms tomorrow, with hardly any rain by Sunday and Monday as the surface boundary settles into South Alabama. I am not convinced this is the correct solution... but I think we will trend that way slowly in the forecast.
NEXT WEEK: The main heat ridge seems to be centered a little north of us, so hopefully that will keep the hottest weather over Tennessee, and give us an open door for at least scattered afternoon showers and thunderstorms by mid-week. Temperatures will remain hot. But, the weather should be hot in mid-July in Alabama.
TROPICS: Weak waves continue moving westward through the central Gulf of Mexico and the central Caribbean with no sign of any organization. The rest of the Atlantic is still quiet.
Brian Peters is up on Mt. Cheaha this weekend, so we probably won't be able to provide a map video discussion until my next update Monday morning. But, then again, you probably know what we are going to say anyway! The blog will be updated by J.B. and Bill Murray. I think Bill is down in far South Florida this weekend; I know we is having lunch with Max Mayfield (NHC Director) today or tomorrow. We will discuss that on WeatherBrains next week. Have a great weekend and STAY COOL!
http://www.jamesspann.com/
Our parade of summer hits rolls along:
"Hot town, summer in the city
Back of my neck getting dirty and gritty
Been down, isn't it a pity
Doesn't seem to be a shadow in the city
All around, people looking half dead
Walking on the sidewalk, hotter than a match head
But at night it's a different world
Go out and find a girl
Come-on come-on and dance all night
Despite the heat it'll be alright
And babe, don't you know it's a pity
That the days can't be like the nights
In the summer, in the city
In the summer, in the city"
That was from John B. Sebastian and the Lovin' Spoonful from 1966. What a great song to play on the radio on a summer afternoon.
Lets move on from the hit parade to the heat parade...
The hot weather continues for the next five days and beyond... daytime high temperatures will remain in the 94 to 98 degree range for most spots through early next week. The big question everyone asks is WHEN WILL IT RAIN?
The answer is that is actually rains every day, but as you know, the showers are very scattered. We have a classic example of that on the radar today; much of the Alabama countryside is dry, but a few neighborhoods are getting wet.
THE WEEKEND: The GFS actually tries to bring a surface boundary through there tomorrow night, and it suggests a little better coverage of afternoon showers and storms tomorrow, with hardly any rain by Sunday and Monday as the surface boundary settles into South Alabama. I am not convinced this is the correct solution... but I think we will trend that way slowly in the forecast.
NEXT WEEK: The main heat ridge seems to be centered a little north of us, so hopefully that will keep the hottest weather over Tennessee, and give us an open door for at least scattered afternoon showers and thunderstorms by mid-week. Temperatures will remain hot. But, the weather should be hot in mid-July in Alabama.
TROPICS: Weak waves continue moving westward through the central Gulf of Mexico and the central Caribbean with no sign of any organization. The rest of the Atlantic is still quiet.
Brian Peters is up on Mt. Cheaha this weekend, so we probably won't be able to provide a map video discussion until my next update Monday morning. But, then again, you probably know what we are going to say anyway! The blog will be updated by J.B. and Bill Murray. I think Bill is down in far South Florida this weekend; I know we is having lunch with Max Mayfield (NHC Director) today or tomorrow. We will discuss that on WeatherBrains next week. Have a great weekend and STAY COOL!
on July 15, 2006, 7:40 am
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