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Quiet and calm weather will continue through Thursday, with mostly sunny mild days and fair cool nights. We will have scattered clouds around from time to time with a few weak impulses aloft, but no significant chance of rain through mid-week. Look for a high in the low 60s tomorrow, near 70 on Wednesday, and low 70s on Thursday.
NEXT RAIN: Still some muddiness in end of the week forecast, but the general idea, a consensus between the GFS and the ECMWF, takes a surface low from near the Red River (the Texas/Oklahoma border) to Virginia in the Friday/Saturday time frame. This will push a cold front through Alabama at some point Saturday, and should bring our next chance of showers and thunderstorms. Seems like the best chance of this will come Saturday; perhaps Saturday morning. We will have to fine tune this in coming days as we get better clarity from model output. One way or another, I don’t think it rains all day Saturday, and Sunday looks like a nice day with ample sunshine and a high back in the 60s.
NEXT WEEK: A much stronger system seems poised to impact Alabama around Tuesday of next week, although the latest GFS takes the best dynamics a little north of Alabama. We will still need to keep an eye on that system.
VOODOO LAND: We should point out here the average date of the last freeze in Alabama is March 23. However, we have seen a freeze as late as April 23, so it is a little early to think the cold weather is over. The pattern still suggests active and changeable weather for the rest of March.
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