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Anybody remember this song by Bobbie Gentry?
“It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day
I was out choppin’ cotton and my brother was balin’ hay
And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat
And Mama hollered out the back door “y’all remember to wipe your feet”
And then she said “I got some news this mornin’ from Choctaw Ridge”
“Today Billy Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge””
Thanks to Wayne in Georgia for reminding us of this one…
RAIN CHANCES ON THE WAY UP: A few scattered showers are showing up on radar this afternoon; one near downtown Birmingham is responsible for the drop to 81 degrees at the Birmingham Airport. Look for showers and storms to become numerous across Alabama tomorrow, as an upper trough passes over the state, and a surface boundary approaches from the northwest. Both the GFS and the NAM print a high of only 80 degrees tomorrow with clouds and occasional showers. The NAM predicts 0.46″ of rain during the next 84 hours, while the GFS is a little wetter with 0.58″. So, looks like average amounts of 1/2 inch are likely, with isolated totals to one inch. Showers could linger into tomorrow night.
FRIDAY AND THE WEEKEND: The GFS is not as progressive with the upper trough on the 12Z run (see the Weather Xtreme video), and hints showers could linger Friday and Saturday over parts of South Alabama, mainly south of a line from Lafayette to Montgomery to Mobile. For now, we will leave the forecast dry for Saturday and Sunday and adjust the forecast later if needed. Highs over the weekend should be in the upper 80s.
NEXT WEEK: Moist air returns to the state early next week; the 12Z GFS hints showers are possible Monday, becoming a little more numerous Tuesday and Wednesday as the moisture deepens across the state. The rest of the week will be warm and humid with some risk of scattered showers and storms.
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