The Tuesday morning map discussion video is on the web, and available on iTunes:
http://www.jamesspann.com/
Back in the home office this morning after a very nice visit to the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Stayed at the Gaylord Texan Resort; very nice accomodations! This is the Texas version of the Opryland Resort in Nashville, and is located up in Grapevine (just north of DFW Airport). About the only negative thing was the Internet access; no wi-fi, and the upload speeds in the room (they did have wired broadband) was about dial-up speed. Download speed was almost 10 mbps, lightning fast, but for some reason they cut the upload speed down to almost nothing. Not good for those of us who have to transfer large files. And, no wi-fi meant no Internet access in the meeting rooms and convention area. But, other than that, what a great place for a family vacation stop.
THE ALABAMA WEATHER STORY: Our front is pushing through central Alabama as I write this, and all of the showers should be out of the state by mid-morning. The sky will clear, and a fresh northwest breeze will bring in the coolest air so far this season. We expect to be near 50 degrees early tomorrow morning, and in the upper 40s early Thursday morning. The sky tomorrow and Thursday will feature brilliant sunshine. Can't beat it.
FRIDAY AND THE WEEKEND: The GFS has changed its tune since my last discussion yesterday morning. Instead of a strong short wave rolling through here with a chance of severe storms, the GFS now keeps a ridge on the Gulf Coast, and dampens out the short wave, meaning the front will hang up just north of Alabama. So... what does this mean for the weekend?
We will still bring in the chance of showers and thunderstorms Friday and Friday night as moisture surges back into the state, and the front approaches from the northwest. High school football fans will have to dodge raindrops this week. Then, for both Saturday and Sunday we will mention scattered showers and thunderstorms as the front remains north of the state. It also means warm and muggy conditions; highs in the 80s with dewpoints up in the mid to upper 60s. A stalled front can mean heavy rain and possibly flash flooding, but the GFS keeps the heaviest rain over the weekend a tad north of here, over Tennessee. We will sure keep an eye on it.
The GFS keeps a chance of rain on Monday of next week before drier air finally noses in here by Tuesday, a week from today.
TROPICS: Hurricane Gordon is headed for Portgual, and Hurricane Helene is a recurving storm in the middle of the Atlantic. No threat to the U.S. mainland at all.
LONG RANGE: I have a big batch of e-mail asking me for my opinion on the coming winter season... I will write more about this tonight here on the blog. Lots of folks are trying to link the hot and dry summer to a certain type of winter, and the lack of Gulf hurricanes to a certain type of winter. I would use caution here... but watch for my post sometime around 9:30 or 10:00 tonight.
Thanks to J.B. for writing the morning forecast package for me this morning (the one posted over on the seven day discussion and forecast page)... and to John Oldshue for covering the TV shift last night. Everything gets back to normal today.... I will have the next map discussion video posted by 3:30 this afternoon!
http://www.jamesspann.com/
Back in the home office this morning after a very nice visit to the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Stayed at the Gaylord Texan Resort; very nice accomodations! This is the Texas version of the Opryland Resort in Nashville, and is located up in Grapevine (just north of DFW Airport). About the only negative thing was the Internet access; no wi-fi, and the upload speeds in the room (they did have wired broadband) was about dial-up speed. Download speed was almost 10 mbps, lightning fast, but for some reason they cut the upload speed down to almost nothing. Not good for those of us who have to transfer large files. And, no wi-fi meant no Internet access in the meeting rooms and convention area. But, other than that, what a great place for a family vacation stop.
THE ALABAMA WEATHER STORY: Our front is pushing through central Alabama as I write this, and all of the showers should be out of the state by mid-morning. The sky will clear, and a fresh northwest breeze will bring in the coolest air so far this season. We expect to be near 50 degrees early tomorrow morning, and in the upper 40s early Thursday morning. The sky tomorrow and Thursday will feature brilliant sunshine. Can't beat it.
FRIDAY AND THE WEEKEND: The GFS has changed its tune since my last discussion yesterday morning. Instead of a strong short wave rolling through here with a chance of severe storms, the GFS now keeps a ridge on the Gulf Coast, and dampens out the short wave, meaning the front will hang up just north of Alabama. So... what does this mean for the weekend?
We will still bring in the chance of showers and thunderstorms Friday and Friday night as moisture surges back into the state, and the front approaches from the northwest. High school football fans will have to dodge raindrops this week. Then, for both Saturday and Sunday we will mention scattered showers and thunderstorms as the front remains north of the state. It also means warm and muggy conditions; highs in the 80s with dewpoints up in the mid to upper 60s. A stalled front can mean heavy rain and possibly flash flooding, but the GFS keeps the heaviest rain over the weekend a tad north of here, over Tennessee. We will sure keep an eye on it.
The GFS keeps a chance of rain on Monday of next week before drier air finally noses in here by Tuesday, a week from today.
TROPICS: Hurricane Gordon is headed for Portgual, and Hurricane Helene is a recurving storm in the middle of the Atlantic. No threat to the U.S. mainland at all.
LONG RANGE: I have a big batch of e-mail asking me for my opinion on the coming winter season... I will write more about this tonight here on the blog. Lots of folks are trying to link the hot and dry summer to a certain type of winter, and the lack of Gulf hurricanes to a certain type of winter. I would use caution here... but watch for my post sometime around 9:30 or 10:00 tonight.
Thanks to J.B. for writing the morning forecast package for me this morning (the one posted over on the seven day discussion and forecast page)... and to John Oldshue for covering the TV shift last night. Everything gets back to normal today.... I will have the next map discussion video posted by 3:30 this afternoon!
on September 19, 2006, 8:31 am
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