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YOUR PICTURES: A reminder… you can go back and see hundreds and hundreds of reader-submitted pictures of Saturday’s snow on our Flickr feed here. Fun stuff… and of course, in addition to the snow, there are also other shots folks have sent to us for the 6:00 News “picture of the day”.
The impulse moving through Alabama is producing a little light rain early this morning over the western half of the state, but that rain continues to shrink on radar, and I doubt if most places see measurable rain today. Clouds will keep temperatures down a bit, with highs generally in the low 60s.
Beautiful weather is the story tomorrow and Thursday; lots of sunshine with warmer afternoons. We will be in the upper 60s tomorrow, and low 70s by Thursday.
STORMY TIMES RETURN: We still have some questions on events Friday and Saturday, but it looks like we might be dealing with a few strong to severe storms at some point. The GFS is a little more aggressive with this system; it bring a deepening surface low along I-40 from near Oklahoma City to Nashville during that two day period. A few showers should break out Friday afternoon and Friday night, but the best chance of strong to severe storms would seem to be after midnight Friday night into Saturday morning (another sleepless Friday night in the weather office??!!??). The instability values are actually pretty impressive during the day Saturday south of the surface front, with SBCAPE values over 2,000 j/kg over South Alabama. After all, this is March, so we will be watching for severe weather problems late Friday night into Saturday. Still, I don’t think the day is a total wash-out, with with a little sunshine we should rise into the mid 70s.
Sunday looks like a great day, with sunshine back in full force and a high in the low 60s.
MORE STORMS EARLY NEXT WEEK: The idea of a major storm system early next week is still on the board. Looks like the best day for showers and storms will be on Tuesday, and the 00Z GFS hints at another chance of strong to severe storms. Then, a one day shot of colder air invades Alabama on Wednesday, following the storms. Even a hint of some snow flurries Wednesday on the back side of the departing storm system. Warmer and drier weather follows that for the rest of next week.
VOODOO COUNTRY: The 00Z GFS paints a nice snow for North Alabama on March 24, but voodoo is voodoo. Watch the video for the graphics on this.
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