The Wednesday afternoon map discussion video is on the web, and available on iTunes:
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I am writing this in the very comfortable ABC 33/40 Storm Chaser, which serves as an excellent mobile weather center even on beautiful days like this. Our friends at Southern Comfort conversions did a great job on this van when it was put together six years ago. I am in downtown Gadsden right now, and will be over in Jacksonville doing the weather live at 5:00 and 6:00 on ABC 33/40 News.
A COOL CRISP NIGHT AHEAD: J.B. Elliott writes our daily afternoon forecast package, and he was dropped the low in our forecast tonight down to 47 degrees. Of course, the cooler valleys will be close to 40, and some of the ridgetops will be in the low 50s. But, everyone will enjoy a real taste of autumn. Scroll down below this post to see some of the observed lows this morning across the state.
QUICK CHANGES: The 12Z GFS looks good, and there is no reason to change our forecast thinking for the next seven days. Moist air returns quickly on Friday, and scattered showers and storms should form during the day, and will continue Friday night. Yep, that means there will be some rain at a few high school stadiums across the state this week. Not all of them, but some fans will need the rain gear.
The surface front will hold up northwest of Alabama over the weekend, and we will remain in a very moist environment over the weekend. So, showers and thunderstorms will remain possible on both Saturday and Sunday. No complete wash-out, but it could rain at almost any time over the weekend. Between Friday and Sunday many places will receive between one and two inches of rain.
Severe weather doesn't look likely for Alabama over the weekend, but SPC does outline a severe weather risk for Saturday from roughly Texarkana to Indianapolis (areas northwest of Alabama).
NEXT WEEK: The air will dry out quickly on Monday, and we should have sunshine back in full force by Monday afternoon. Tuesday and Wednesday should be rain-free, with lots of sunshine and comfortable temperatures.
LONG RANGE: Wow... the GFS is very persistent in advertising a whopper of a long wave trough from the Great Lakes down into the Deep South at the end of the month. This could mean a risk of severe storms around September 29-30, and the coldest air so far this season during the first two days of October, perhaps a setup for lows in the 30s over North Alabama.
TROPICS: Gordon is in the far eastern Atlantic headed for Europe, and Helene will recurve out into the open water of the North Atlantic. A good looking tropical wave is in the eastern Atlantic in "hurricane alley", and is a low latitude system that is a candidate to become Tropical Storm Isaac. First guess is that this one will also turn north into the open Atlantic, but we will keep an eye on it since some systems along that latitude can make into the Caribbean.
I will be back in the studio for the 10:00 news tonight, and the next map discussion video will be posted by 7:00 a.m. tomorrow!
http://www.jamesspann.com/
I am writing this in the very comfortable ABC 33/40 Storm Chaser, which serves as an excellent mobile weather center even on beautiful days like this. Our friends at Southern Comfort conversions did a great job on this van when it was put together six years ago. I am in downtown Gadsden right now, and will be over in Jacksonville doing the weather live at 5:00 and 6:00 on ABC 33/40 News.
A COOL CRISP NIGHT AHEAD: J.B. Elliott writes our daily afternoon forecast package, and he was dropped the low in our forecast tonight down to 47 degrees. Of course, the cooler valleys will be close to 40, and some of the ridgetops will be in the low 50s. But, everyone will enjoy a real taste of autumn. Scroll down below this post to see some of the observed lows this morning across the state.
QUICK CHANGES: The 12Z GFS looks good, and there is no reason to change our forecast thinking for the next seven days. Moist air returns quickly on Friday, and scattered showers and storms should form during the day, and will continue Friday night. Yep, that means there will be some rain at a few high school stadiums across the state this week. Not all of them, but some fans will need the rain gear.
The surface front will hold up northwest of Alabama over the weekend, and we will remain in a very moist environment over the weekend. So, showers and thunderstorms will remain possible on both Saturday and Sunday. No complete wash-out, but it could rain at almost any time over the weekend. Between Friday and Sunday many places will receive between one and two inches of rain.
Severe weather doesn't look likely for Alabama over the weekend, but SPC does outline a severe weather risk for Saturday from roughly Texarkana to Indianapolis (areas northwest of Alabama).
NEXT WEEK: The air will dry out quickly on Monday, and we should have sunshine back in full force by Monday afternoon. Tuesday and Wednesday should be rain-free, with lots of sunshine and comfortable temperatures.
LONG RANGE: Wow... the GFS is very persistent in advertising a whopper of a long wave trough from the Great Lakes down into the Deep South at the end of the month. This could mean a risk of severe storms around September 29-30, and the coldest air so far this season during the first two days of October, perhaps a setup for lows in the 30s over North Alabama.
TROPICS: Gordon is in the far eastern Atlantic headed for Europe, and Helene will recurve out into the open water of the North Atlantic. A good looking tropical wave is in the eastern Atlantic in "hurricane alley", and is a low latitude system that is a candidate to become Tropical Storm Isaac. First guess is that this one will also turn north into the open Atlantic, but we will keep an eye on it since some systems along that latitude can make into the Caribbean.
I will be back in the studio for the 10:00 news tonight, and the next map discussion video will be posted by 7:00 a.m. tomorrow!
on September 20, 2006, 2:46 pm
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