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THANK YOU: For all of the prayers for my friend Rick Burgess and his family. I will personally deliver all of the comments you have made here on the blog to they this week. We will never understand their pain, but your support is exactly what they need at this time. Again, on behalf of the entire Rick and Bubba family, thanks for your compassion and sharing the hurt you feel for the family.
LOVE THOSE PICTURES: I am still working on watching all of the hundreds of pictures you sent to us over the weekend…. you can see all of them on our Flickr feed. Our pal Jeff Wyatt did his best to manually post all of these images to the ABC 33/40 site, but I think he ran out of gas after picture number 500! If you have some good snow pictures that you haven’t sent to us, we still want them! Just send them as an attachment to [email protected].
I will post a pretty cool slideshow here in a few minutes with some of those images and a little winter music.
Looking back on the event, the idea of the heaviest snow along a line from Livingston to Clanton to Roanoke was actually very close to being right on the money. Blog readers know we presented that idea first back on Thursday morning. The heaviest snow was actually a little south of that line, but only by about 20 to 30 miles. And, instead of a forecast of 3 to 6 inches in that zone, the better forecast would have been 2 to 5 inches (although Orrville, in Dallas County, did report 5.5 inches!).
I think the real joy of that event was seeing the faces on the kids in my neighborhood, and in all of those pictures. For many of the children, it was the first snow, and a real day to remember. Coming on a Saturday, the timing was perfect. And, travel issues were limited to the West-Central counties, where snow covered bridges were a big problem in counties like Sumter, Greene, Marengo, and Choctaw.
MOVING ON: We are forecasting a high of 50 today; so all of the snowmen will have a really hard time surviving the day. The sky will be sunny as dry air remains in place. But, another disturbance in the active southern stream will bring clouds back to Alabama tonight, and periods of rain tomorrow. At this point it looks like we will have one-quarter to one-half inch of rain during the day. I am not sure we can get out of the upper 40s with the clouds and rain.
At this point the rest of the week looks dry, but a cold front will blow through here late Wednesday night, and bring sharply colder temperatures by Thursday. Looks like we won’t get out of the 30s on Thursday with a brisk north wind.
WEEKEND PEEK: At first glance the weekend looks wet. It won’t be a total wash-out, but periods of rain and showers are likely on both Saturday and Sunday. We will break into warmer air on Sunday with a high in the low to mid 60s; that will be like a heat wave compared to our recent weather.
INTO THE LAND OF VOODOO: Snow lovers will really love the GFS look for Feb 2 on the 06Z run; watch the video to see it. But, we all know that is pure voodoo at this point.
WEATHER BRAINS: Don’t forget you can listen to our weekly 30 minute netcast anytime on the web, or on iTunes. This is the show all about weather featuring many familiar voices, including our meteorologists here at ABC 33/40. You can even listen here on the blog; look for the player on the top left. We will record a few episode tonight; it will be posted by 10:00 or so.
I will be out working on a Storm Alert 2008 story today; we will be posting the tour schedule this week. We hope to see you along the way… The next Weather Xtreme video will be here by 3:30 this afternoon. Enjoy the day!
