The Monday morning web video is on the server:
http://beta.abc3340.com/weather/video.hrb
Beautiful weather for Alabama today... lots of sun, low humidity, and highs in the upper 70s. Not bad at all for mid-May. Dry weather will continue tomorrow and Wednesday with a warming trend; we should be back in the mid 80s by Wednesday afternoon.
The forecast gets a bit complicated late in the week. The 00Z run of the GFS takes the trough moving into the northwest today, and forms a cut-off upper low over the Dakotas on Wednesday. This feature drops southward toward Kansas City on Thursday, and to near Shreveport on Friday. East of the upper low, a rather moist airmass moves into Alabama and the deep south, which would suggest the chance of a few passing showers and storms beginning late Thursday, continuing through Friday and Saturday. There is nothing here to suggest a total wash-out on those days, but I think there is no doubt we will need to mention the risk of a few showers and storms.
The GFS shows a drier airmass in here by Sunday as the upper low keeps drifting southward into the western Gulf of Mexico and weakens.
TROPICAL ACTION: I didn't mention this in the video, but check out that 1000 mb low at the western tip of Cuba on the 00Z run of the GFS! Maybe an early season tropical system? Whatever forms down there, the GFS moves the feature slowly northeastward with time, in the general direction of the Bahamas. I checked the buoy at the Yucatan Basin (42056) this morning, and the water temperature is 83.5 degrees. HMMMM
I will be "on assignment" this morning (like they say in the newsroom), with a crew consisting of J.B. Elliott, Bill Murray, Brian Peters, and Bill Castle for a fun little trip down to the south of Birmingham for a while. I will be back in the office for the afternoon update later today!
http://beta.abc3340.com/weather/video.hrb
Beautiful weather for Alabama today... lots of sun, low humidity, and highs in the upper 70s. Not bad at all for mid-May. Dry weather will continue tomorrow and Wednesday with a warming trend; we should be back in the mid 80s by Wednesday afternoon.
The forecast gets a bit complicated late in the week. The 00Z run of the GFS takes the trough moving into the northwest today, and forms a cut-off upper low over the Dakotas on Wednesday. This feature drops southward toward Kansas City on Thursday, and to near Shreveport on Friday. East of the upper low, a rather moist airmass moves into Alabama and the deep south, which would suggest the chance of a few passing showers and storms beginning late Thursday, continuing through Friday and Saturday. There is nothing here to suggest a total wash-out on those days, but I think there is no doubt we will need to mention the risk of a few showers and storms.
The GFS shows a drier airmass in here by Sunday as the upper low keeps drifting southward into the western Gulf of Mexico and weakens.
TROPICAL ACTION: I didn't mention this in the video, but check out that 1000 mb low at the western tip of Cuba on the 00Z run of the GFS! Maybe an early season tropical system? Whatever forms down there, the GFS moves the feature slowly northeastward with time, in the general direction of the Bahamas. I checked the buoy at the Yucatan Basin (42056) this morning, and the water temperature is 83.5 degrees. HMMMM
I will be "on assignment" this morning (like they say in the newsroom), with a crew consisting of J.B. Elliott, Bill Murray, Brian Peters, and Bill Castle for a fun little trip down to the south of Birmingham for a while. I will be back in the office for the afternoon update later today!
on May 16, 2005, 10:46 am
Looks like maybe an earlier start and long season for tropical weather
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