The Tuesday afternoon map discussion video is on the web, and available on iTunes:
http://www.jamesspann.com/
I am sitting here looking at our SKYCAM images from Mt. Cheaha... the temperature up on the big mountain is only 70 degrees right now with a dewpoint of 54 and bright sunshine through scattered clouds. I will be up there on Saturday for the annual Cheaha Arts and Crafts Festival and Chili Cook-Off; I will be one of the Chili Cook-Off judges. Ah, a tough life...
THE ALABAMA STORY: A pretty benign weather pattern will continue through the weekend with temperatures below normal, on an average basis. We will continue to mention a chance of a brief passing shower or storm on Thursday with a cold front and upper trough passing through, but with very limited moisture and instability rain should be light and spotty despite very impressive upward motion with the trough.
SPC has the area from Little Rock to Indianapolis under a slight risk of severe weather for tomorrow, but even that is marginal due to the lack of good low level moist air.
A fresh supply of cool and dry air will roll in here on Friday; we will struggle to reach the low 70s despite a sunny sky. Look for 40s early Friday and Saturday morning. Great weather for high school and college football games.
SHOWERS SUNDAY? The GFS has really backed off on any significant chance of rain with the front on Sunday; we will hold on to a small chance, but the lack of moisture should keep many areas dry.
NEXT WEEK: An upper air ridge builds across the Deep South, which will give us a fairly warm week to begin the month of October; look for highs in the 80s for much of next week; some West Alabama communities might even touch the 90 degree mark. A little "Indian Summer" weather. The week looks generally dry under the warm upper ridge.
TROPICS: A disturbance in the Atlantic, about 800 miles northeast of the Leeward Islands, still has some potential to become a tropical depression during the next day or so, but this system will recurve into the open Atlantic and is no threat to the U.S. mainland.
I will do my best to post some of our long form tornado coverage from this past Friday night... including the time leading up to the Oneonta tornado. We have a ton of things going on this week, but I will try to slip over to the video vault this evening and get it rendered tonight. We have a one hour prime time special coming up in about one month, and our Storm Alert XTREME severe weather training event is getting close too; we will be posting details on that later this week.
The next map discussion video will be posted by 7:00 a.m. tomorrow!
http://www.jamesspann.com/
I am sitting here looking at our SKYCAM images from Mt. Cheaha... the temperature up on the big mountain is only 70 degrees right now with a dewpoint of 54 and bright sunshine through scattered clouds. I will be up there on Saturday for the annual Cheaha Arts and Crafts Festival and Chili Cook-Off; I will be one of the Chili Cook-Off judges. Ah, a tough life...
THE ALABAMA STORY: A pretty benign weather pattern will continue through the weekend with temperatures below normal, on an average basis. We will continue to mention a chance of a brief passing shower or storm on Thursday with a cold front and upper trough passing through, but with very limited moisture and instability rain should be light and spotty despite very impressive upward motion with the trough.
SPC has the area from Little Rock to Indianapolis under a slight risk of severe weather for tomorrow, but even that is marginal due to the lack of good low level moist air.
A fresh supply of cool and dry air will roll in here on Friday; we will struggle to reach the low 70s despite a sunny sky. Look for 40s early Friday and Saturday morning. Great weather for high school and college football games.
SHOWERS SUNDAY? The GFS has really backed off on any significant chance of rain with the front on Sunday; we will hold on to a small chance, but the lack of moisture should keep many areas dry.
NEXT WEEK: An upper air ridge builds across the Deep South, which will give us a fairly warm week to begin the month of October; look for highs in the 80s for much of next week; some West Alabama communities might even touch the 90 degree mark. A little "Indian Summer" weather. The week looks generally dry under the warm upper ridge.
TROPICS: A disturbance in the Atlantic, about 800 miles northeast of the Leeward Islands, still has some potential to become a tropical depression during the next day or so, but this system will recurve into the open Atlantic and is no threat to the U.S. mainland.
I will do my best to post some of our long form tornado coverage from this past Friday night... including the time leading up to the Oneonta tornado. We have a ton of things going on this week, but I will try to slip over to the video vault this evening and get it rendered tonight. We have a one hour prime time special coming up in about one month, and our Storm Alert XTREME severe weather training event is getting close too; we will be posting details on that later this week.
The next map discussion video will be posted by 7:00 a.m. tomorrow!