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Around this part of the great state of Alabama at the lunch hour, Birmingham is at 85 degrees. Other observations include 82 in Muscle Shoals, 84 in Gadsden, and 86 in Anniston. As usual, Tuscaloosa is running hotter with 88. I really believe the ASOS site there is in need of calibration; our SKYCAM site at the Tuscaloosa County Courthouse has been running two to three degrees cooler than the Airport for weeks now.
Just a speck of two on the radar up in northeast Alabama. A few isolated showers could form in the next few hours, mainly over the eastern half of the state. But, they should be few and far between.
THE WEEK AHEAD: A fairly strong upper trough will sweep through here tomorrow, but with only limited moisture the opportunity for beneficial rain doesn't really look good. A few showers or storms should fire up thanks to the upper dynamics, but they will be scattered. Then, the latter half of the week looks dry with temperatures at or maybe a little below normal for early September. Looks like we have a good chance of the cooler valleys of North Alabama reaching the 55 to 59 degree range both Wednesday and Thursday morning; most spots will be close to 60. A very nice preview of fall!
WEEKEND PEEK: Some moisture will begin to return on Saturday and Sunday, but with little trigger for rain it looks like any showers will be widely separated. Still no sign of widespread 90s; highs for the weekend should stay in the 80s.
TD6: This should become Tropical Storm Florence at some point within the next 24 hours. This one isn't moving very fast, and still should be hundreds of miles northeast of Puerto Rico at that time. Systems in this position rarely impact the Gulf of Mexico, and many of them recurve harmlessly into the North Atlantic. Florence might do that, but the GFS hints it might come very close to the Nova Scotia coast in about 10 to 12 days.
OTHER TROPICAL MISCHIEF: We have other good looking waves across the Atlantic basin; one in the eastern Atlantic a few hundred miles west-southwest of the Cape Verde Islands, and yet another one in the eastern Caribbean. Both might become tropical depressions in coming days.
LONG RANGE: The GFS (the 12Z run) does try to develop some kind of "back yard" home grown tropical system in the northern Gulf in about 12 days, but I sure wouldn't get worked up about tropical systems on the GFS more than 10 days in advance.
Be sure and scroll down for some great Blizzard of 93 pictures sent to us by a reader in Dallas, who lived in Pinson in March 1993. We will be back on the regular schedule tomorrow and have the first map discussion video posted by 7:00 a.m. So, who are you pulling for tonight... Miami, or Florida State? Have a great evening.
http://www.jamesspann.com/
Around this part of the great state of Alabama at the lunch hour, Birmingham is at 85 degrees. Other observations include 82 in Muscle Shoals, 84 in Gadsden, and 86 in Anniston. As usual, Tuscaloosa is running hotter with 88. I really believe the ASOS site there is in need of calibration; our SKYCAM site at the Tuscaloosa County Courthouse has been running two to three degrees cooler than the Airport for weeks now.
Just a speck of two on the radar up in northeast Alabama. A few isolated showers could form in the next few hours, mainly over the eastern half of the state. But, they should be few and far between.
THE WEEK AHEAD: A fairly strong upper trough will sweep through here tomorrow, but with only limited moisture the opportunity for beneficial rain doesn't really look good. A few showers or storms should fire up thanks to the upper dynamics, but they will be scattered. Then, the latter half of the week looks dry with temperatures at or maybe a little below normal for early September. Looks like we have a good chance of the cooler valleys of North Alabama reaching the 55 to 59 degree range both Wednesday and Thursday morning; most spots will be close to 60. A very nice preview of fall!
WEEKEND PEEK: Some moisture will begin to return on Saturday and Sunday, but with little trigger for rain it looks like any showers will be widely separated. Still no sign of widespread 90s; highs for the weekend should stay in the 80s.
TD6: This should become Tropical Storm Florence at some point within the next 24 hours. This one isn't moving very fast, and still should be hundreds of miles northeast of Puerto Rico at that time. Systems in this position rarely impact the Gulf of Mexico, and many of them recurve harmlessly into the North Atlantic. Florence might do that, but the GFS hints it might come very close to the Nova Scotia coast in about 10 to 12 days.
OTHER TROPICAL MISCHIEF: We have other good looking waves across the Atlantic basin; one in the eastern Atlantic a few hundred miles west-southwest of the Cape Verde Islands, and yet another one in the eastern Caribbean. Both might become tropical depressions in coming days.
LONG RANGE: The GFS (the 12Z run) does try to develop some kind of "back yard" home grown tropical system in the northern Gulf in about 12 days, but I sure wouldn't get worked up about tropical systems on the GFS more than 10 days in advance.
Be sure and scroll down for some great Blizzard of 93 pictures sent to us by a reader in Dallas, who lived in Pinson in March 1993. We will be back on the regular schedule tomorrow and have the first map discussion video posted by 7:00 a.m. So, who are you pulling for tonight... Miami, or Florida State? Have a great evening.