The Tuesday morning edition of the Weather Xtreme Video is available in the player below, and also on iTunes:
Pretty cold out there this morning. Birmingham is at 29 degrees as I write this; we should note this is the first “official” freeze of the season. However, many spots have visited freezing land a number of times this month, and even back in October. Fort Payne is one of the colder spots with 27… most locations are somewhere between 28 and 32 degrees.
A pretty simple forecast through Friday… lots of sunshine on a daily basis with a day to day warming trend. We will be in the mid 50s today, close to 60 tomorrow, in the mid to upper 60s on Thanksgiving Day, and close to 70 on Friday. The big storm off the southern Atlantic coast shouldn’t bother us; the rain with that feature will remain over the Carolinas and the eastern half of Georgia.
OVER THE RIVER AND THROUGH THE WOODS: Travel weather around the nation looks excellent tomorrow; about as good as it gets on the day before Thanksgiving. No major airport delays, and the rain will be limited to the south part of the Atlantic coast and the Pacific Northwest.
WEEKEND PEEK: The weather looks dry and pleasant here on Saturday and Sunday with just a scattered clouds around. Highs will be in the 66 to 71 degree range for the most part around Alabama.
NEXT WEEK: We get back to fun and games next week. The screaming message is that we should have a good rain event, maybe even a few strong storms, followed by a sharp change to colder weather sometime in the November 28-December 1 time frame. The timing and details of the system just can’t be nailed down now; that is all voodoo. Don’t focus on individual model runs simply because they will all look different.
The GFS is now faster, and suggests rain on Tuesday and Tuesday night, with the big change to colder on Wednesday and Thursday. We need to note the ECMWF (European) is much slower, with the big rain event holding off until Thursday night and Friday of next week, with the cold air not really getting in here until Saturday December 2. But the important point is that both models are showing a deep, full latitude trough with very cold air involved. The blog will probably be wild and woolly next week.
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NO WEATHER BRAINS JUST YET: The show host, David Black, had an Internet outage at his place last night so we were not able to record WeatherBrains (we use Skype to do the show). We do have a great interview lined up with the Meteorologist In Charge of the Wilmington, NC NWS office; he will talk about last week’s tragic tornado up there and how the warning process worked. We will try again tonight or tomorrow night… I will post a note here when it is ready, and for those of you using iTunes it will download automatically when it is posted, of course. Gotta love RSS.
I am off to Fultondale High School for a weather program this morning, then I will be dropping by the home of the great Alabama weather legend, J.B. Elliott, for some computer work. I will back in the office by early afternoon and the next Weather Xtreme Video will be posted by 3:30… enjoy your Tuesday!
