Good morning to everyone out there on this beautiful Saturday morning…get out and enjoy the sunshine and readings in the lower 70s this afternoon.
Putting finishing touches on afternoon package and getting ready to head out on a bike ride and then do a little late fall yard work. Tonight, we are dining with Birmingham radio personality Binnie Myles, one of my favorite people. We will be heading out to Standard Bistro in Mount Laurel, the planned communiuty south of Birmingham off US-280. I am excited to be heading there.
It’s more of the same tomorrow, then partly cloudy and continued warm on Monday. Clouds will thicken Monday night, with mostly cloudy skies on tap for Tuesday. A warm front will bring some showers to the area by late Tuesday night, and showers will be the rule for Wednesday ahead of an approaching cold front. The front will push a line of storms trhough the state on Thursday. The prospects for severe weather do not look good at this time.
That front, the most powerful of the season, will usher in a dramatic change to colder. Fortunately, moisture should depart before freezing temperatures arrive Thursday night. But Friday will be a miserable day with temperatures in the 30s during the day along with a strong north wind. Temperatures will drop well below freezing Friday night. Expect 40s on Saturday with lots of sunshine. Then a nice ridge will begin to build into Alabama with a good warmup starting on Sunday.
Nationally, things are fairly quiet. High pressure dominates the east. Low pressure in the center of the nation is producing some showers across Kansas as well as the Oklahoma and Texas Panhandles. Unsettled weather over the Northwest will produce some heavy snows over western Montana and adjacent parts of Idaho where winter storms warnings are in effect.
Snow lovers and ski buffs are rejoicing in Telluride, Colorado, one of my favorite places…where it is expected to snow every day for the next five days.
There is an area of disturbed weather over the southern Caribbean, north of Panama. It is less organized this morning, and any development will be slow as it moves west into Nicaragua.
