Published on: January 29, 2009 at 11:58 AM

Busy busy busy day… Finished the weather program at Creek View Elementary in Alabaster; about to go into the Golden Corral in Center Point for a lunch speech. From here I will squeeze in an afternoon discussion and Weather Xtreme video; then we fly down to Eutaw in the ABC 33/40 chopper for opening night of Storm Alert 2009. We will be at Greene County High School; the show begins at 7:00. Then, a quick flight back and I will be in the studio at 10:00.

Nice to see a vigorous discussion about weather in coming days; most of you have seen the 12Z model runs; if not I will go through them in a bit. Quite frankly, I am not interested in specific model output today (I will be beginning tomorrow), but the ensemble approach works much better for this kind of situation several days out. Somebody across the Southeast U.S. will get a very nice snow event Monday, and I won’t make the first call until tomorrow afternoon. No human knows the details of this event right now… but we all have fun with the speculation process.

Nice to see many new followers on Twitter and Facebook… the social media is becoming very important in how we communicate with our audience. Great interaction, just like the blog here. Look for the afternoon discussion and video by 3:30!