The Wednesday morning web video is on the server:
http://beta.abc3340.com/weather/video.hrb
I did post my annual "Spann's Best Way To The Bama Beaches" on this blog last night... scroll down to read it if you have an interest in taking the roads less traveled to the Gulf coast. I know a ton of people headed down that way next week as the school year is winding down.
Another nice day today, with ample sunshine and temperatures rising into the mid 80s this afternoon. I still think most of the day tomorrow will be dry.
We will highlight showers and thunderstorms tomorrow night into Friday as the upper air trough drops southward from near Des Moines to Muscle Shoals. The latest model extraction from the ETA shows 1.54" here Thursday night into Friday; that will be very beneficial if we do get that much. SPC does not include Alabama in any formal severe weather risk areas; we agree with relatively light wind fields. Instability parameters look pretty decent, and there will be some low level veering with the vort max just to the west, but I am not convinced we will have any organized severe storms.
THE WEEKEND: Showers and storms should thin out on Saturday as the upper air system moves to the Mississippi coast and weakens. We will continue to forecast a dry day on Sunday.
NEXT WEEK: The GFS is suggesting a cold front moves through here early in the week, with a band of showers and storms late Monday and Monday night. Then, after a dry day on Tuesday, a wave forms on the front bringing in another round of rain and storms on Wednesday.
Then, a nice upper trough sets up over the eastern U.S. which should bring a nice batch of cooler and drier and for the latter half of the week, in the May 26-28 time frame.
MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND: Way too early for a specific forecast, but first guess would suggest the weekend starts off dry, perhaps finishing wet with rain returning on Monday May 30. Don't take that to the bank... just a first look.
ADRIAN: Guess we need to mention we have our first eastern Pacific tropical storm of the season, Adrian, which is moving toward Central America. It might be a minimal hurricane by landfall, but the main threat will come from flooding, which will be life threatening. Oddly enough, if this thing survives the rugged terrain of Central America, it will emerge into the Caribbean, moving toward Cuba and the Bahamas. It won't impact Alabama or the Gulf of Mexico one way or another....
See the advisories and graphics on our tropical page:
http://beta.abc3340.com/weather/tropics.hrb
http://beta.abc3340.com/weather/video.hrb
I did post my annual "Spann's Best Way To The Bama Beaches" on this blog last night... scroll down to read it if you have an interest in taking the roads less traveled to the Gulf coast. I know a ton of people headed down that way next week as the school year is winding down.
Another nice day today, with ample sunshine and temperatures rising into the mid 80s this afternoon. I still think most of the day tomorrow will be dry.
We will highlight showers and thunderstorms tomorrow night into Friday as the upper air trough drops southward from near Des Moines to Muscle Shoals. The latest model extraction from the ETA shows 1.54" here Thursday night into Friday; that will be very beneficial if we do get that much. SPC does not include Alabama in any formal severe weather risk areas; we agree with relatively light wind fields. Instability parameters look pretty decent, and there will be some low level veering with the vort max just to the west, but I am not convinced we will have any organized severe storms.
THE WEEKEND: Showers and storms should thin out on Saturday as the upper air system moves to the Mississippi coast and weakens. We will continue to forecast a dry day on Sunday.
NEXT WEEK: The GFS is suggesting a cold front moves through here early in the week, with a band of showers and storms late Monday and Monday night. Then, after a dry day on Tuesday, a wave forms on the front bringing in another round of rain and storms on Wednesday.
Then, a nice upper trough sets up over the eastern U.S. which should bring a nice batch of cooler and drier and for the latter half of the week, in the May 26-28 time frame.
MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND: Way too early for a specific forecast, but first guess would suggest the weekend starts off dry, perhaps finishing wet with rain returning on Monday May 30. Don't take that to the bank... just a first look.
ADRIAN: Guess we need to mention we have our first eastern Pacific tropical storm of the season, Adrian, which is moving toward Central America. It might be a minimal hurricane by landfall, but the main threat will come from flooding, which will be life threatening. Oddly enough, if this thing survives the rugged terrain of Central America, it will emerge into the Caribbean, moving toward Cuba and the Bahamas. It won't impact Alabama or the Gulf of Mexico one way or another....
See the advisories and graphics on our tropical page:
http://beta.abc3340.com/weather/tropics.hrb
on May 18, 2005, 9:15 am
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