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SHARP CONTRAST: Scroll down and you can see J.B’s post of the freezing rain advisory for the northwest corner of Alabama… this is only for the Shoals area (Colbert and Lauderdale counties). Very shallow cold air at the surface will move down into this region tonight; it remains to be seen if temperatures can go below freezing up there, but the NWS feels there is enough of a threat for this advisory.
You can see the contrast on either side of the front… at 2:00 Birmingham was reporting 61 degrees, while Memphis was 30 degrees colder with 31.
An ice storm warning remains in effect for the Memphis area, and winter weather advisories are up all the way from the Hill Country of Texas to West Pennsylvania. See the Weather Xtreme video for all the graphics.
OUR WEEK IN WEATHER: Mild and occasionally wet weather will continue this week. Looks like our warmest day will come Thursday with the upper ridge nosing in from the south; the high should be well up into the 70s, very close to record levels for mid-December. And, it looks like Thursday will be generally dry. Rain will increase again Friday and Saturday with a surface approaching again.
THE WEEKEND: No doubt much colder air will move into the state over the weekend, especially on Sunday, but just how cold is very hard to say due to the shallow nature of the cold air. We might even drop into the 30s on Sunday with some risk of light freezing rain, but for now the risk looks rather limited. The cold air invasion will be temporary as warmer air spreads northward next week.
Monday of next week will be cool and dry.
CHRISTMAS PEEK: We still think the weather will be relatively mild for the middle of next week here in Alabama with the big cold airmass staying out west. No sign of a big eastern U.S. trough that would pull Arctic air down here in full force for the rest of the month.
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