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What a beautiful day, and if you like this weather you will love the weekend. Mostly sunny warm days and clear cool nights. We expect a high tomorrow and Sunday between 70 and 73 degrees, about 15 to 18 degrees above normal for mid-December in Alabama.
NEXT WEEK: The 12Z GFS is showing the next good rain event for Alabama on Thursday of next week, as a strong system comes out of the southwest U.S. into the plains states. Following the rain, cooler air returns by Friday and the weekend (December 22-24), but nothing extremely cold. That airmass should get us back to normal levels for this time of the year, with highs in the 50s and lows in the 30s.
CHRISTMAS WEEK: A colder airmass moves into Alabama around Christmas Day. Looks like a case with highs in the 40s and lows in the 30s on Monday December 25 with no precipitation. The cold air will be shallow, and to the south an active southern jet stream will be positioned over the Gulf of Mexico much of next week. The combination of shallow cold air and a Gulf storm system makes you wonder about a potential winter weather threat around the middle of the week, but we won’t even go there since the southern stream could be positioned far enough to the south to keep most of the precipitation over the southern half of the state. And, of course, the depth and amount of cold air will be in question.
Remember, everything beyond seven days is VOODOO, so we really are not ready to be specific about the weather on Christmas Day until Monday.
Scroll down below this post for J.B.’s “Weather By The Numbers” for some data on the wild weather out in the Pacific Northwest; also keep up with the latest news out there on our sister site, weatherparty.com.
Brian Peters will have the videos here over the weekend, my next Weather Xtreme video will be posted by 7:00 a.m. Monday. Enjoy the warm weekend!
