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This would be a nice day to stay home and sleep, but unfortunately that doesn't work for most of us...
Radar shows a large area of mostly light rain and drizzle across north-central Alabama this morning, with some heavier rain near the Mississippi border as I type this at 5:30 a.m. With a stalled surface boundary to the south, broad low pressure on the front to the west, we will forecast a cloudy and wet day with periods of rain and maybe a little thunder. No severe weather; the air is way too stable. Some spots will have a hard time reaching the low 70s, much like yesterday, with clouds, rain, and a cool easterly flow on the north side of the front.
The broad low on the front should be somewhere near the Alabama/Mississippi border tomorrow, so the unsettled weather will continue with numerous showers and maybe a thunderstorm. By Thursday, the showers should become more scattered as heights begin to rise and the old front washes out. The latest model data looks fairly dry on Friday, but you can't eliminate a few scattered afternoon showers with ample moisture in place.
THE WEEKEND: Warm and muggy weather for Saturday and Sunday with afternoon temperatures getting back in the 70s. Lots of low level moisture, but not a well defined trigger for rain. So... it is the ole "scattered afternoon showers and thunderstorms" kind of deal on both days. The GFS suggests the coverage of the showers will be higher on Sunday.
BEYOND SEVEN DAYS: I guess the theme with the GFS in the longer periods is that we will have a copious amount of low level moisture in place here, so it will be hard to find a day without showers through mid-June. Of course, the best chance of those showers or storms will come during the peak of the daytime heating process, but surface boundaries or waves aloft could enhance the rain at any time. This should keep the heat in check; temperatures should remain below normal.
HURRICANE SEASON BEGINS: Tomorrow is the first day of the 2005 hurricane season. The GFS is famous for spitting out bogus tropical systems, so we won't focus on those, but the GFS does show fairly favorable conditions for early season tropical development in the Gulf and Caribbean with high pressure aloft in place. I would not be shocked to see some "backyard" systems spin up over the next 30 days. Those typically don't develop into hurricanes, but early season tropical storms can produce some big time rain totals. We will keep a close eye on the Gulf and the Atlantic basin in general through the tropical season, which runs through the end of November.
The "Cape Verde" season comes in August, September, and early October, when waves emerging off the African coast can develop in the eastern Atlantic, then having days to grow stronger as they move in this general direction.
The first named storm of the season will be Arlene, the last names are Vince and Wilma.
http://beta.abc3340.com/weather/video.hrb
This would be a nice day to stay home and sleep, but unfortunately that doesn't work for most of us...
Radar shows a large area of mostly light rain and drizzle across north-central Alabama this morning, with some heavier rain near the Mississippi border as I type this at 5:30 a.m. With a stalled surface boundary to the south, broad low pressure on the front to the west, we will forecast a cloudy and wet day with periods of rain and maybe a little thunder. No severe weather; the air is way too stable. Some spots will have a hard time reaching the low 70s, much like yesterday, with clouds, rain, and a cool easterly flow on the north side of the front.
The broad low on the front should be somewhere near the Alabama/Mississippi border tomorrow, so the unsettled weather will continue with numerous showers and maybe a thunderstorm. By Thursday, the showers should become more scattered as heights begin to rise and the old front washes out. The latest model data looks fairly dry on Friday, but you can't eliminate a few scattered afternoon showers with ample moisture in place.
THE WEEKEND: Warm and muggy weather for Saturday and Sunday with afternoon temperatures getting back in the 70s. Lots of low level moisture, but not a well defined trigger for rain. So... it is the ole "scattered afternoon showers and thunderstorms" kind of deal on both days. The GFS suggests the coverage of the showers will be higher on Sunday.
BEYOND SEVEN DAYS: I guess the theme with the GFS in the longer periods is that we will have a copious amount of low level moisture in place here, so it will be hard to find a day without showers through mid-June. Of course, the best chance of those showers or storms will come during the peak of the daytime heating process, but surface boundaries or waves aloft could enhance the rain at any time. This should keep the heat in check; temperatures should remain below normal.
HURRICANE SEASON BEGINS: Tomorrow is the first day of the 2005 hurricane season. The GFS is famous for spitting out bogus tropical systems, so we won't focus on those, but the GFS does show fairly favorable conditions for early season tropical development in the Gulf and Caribbean with high pressure aloft in place. I would not be shocked to see some "backyard" systems spin up over the next 30 days. Those typically don't develop into hurricanes, but early season tropical storms can produce some big time rain totals. We will keep a close eye on the Gulf and the Atlantic basin in general through the tropical season, which runs through the end of November.
The "Cape Verde" season comes in August, September, and early October, when waves emerging off the African coast can develop in the eastern Atlantic, then having days to grow stronger as they move in this general direction.
The first named storm of the season will be Arlene, the last names are Vince and Wilma.
on May 31, 2005, 9:59 am
boring, quiet, peaceful rain
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