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First off, thanks to you for the incredible images of wall clouds, funnel clouds, and tornadoes across Alabama yesterday. Be sure and scroll down to see the pictures here on the blog. We always love weather pictures; if you have them just send them as an e-mail attachment to [email protected]. You can go back and see thousands of them in the archive over on our Flickr site.
RIGHT NOW: Brian just ended long form coverage for the tornado warning for Hale County on ABC 33/40… I was running radar remotely from my home for him. Gotta love the Internet.
Looks like another active day; but remember, the tornadoes associated with tropical rain bands are usually small and short lived, making it very difficult to provide timely warnings. And, many radar signatures that look good wind up being false alarms.
Fay is over South Mississippi this morning, not too far from Hattiesburg, and won’t move much during the day, keeping Alabama in the unsettled eastern quadrant. We will highlight occasional showers today, with the rain potentially heavy at times. And, SPC has much of Central and South Alabama in a slight risk of severe weather, so a tornado warning or two certainly will be possible. Just keep up with the latest here on the blog today; use your RSS reader, or if you prefer, just keep hitting the ole refresh button.
THE WEEK AHEAD: The GFS moves Fay to a position near Huntsville tomorrow, so periods of rain and a few thunderstorms remain likely tomorrow. Wednesday we get into some model madness; the 00Z GFS pushes Fay northeast of Alabama, pulling down drier air which would mean a generally dry day. But, the NAM has a slower movement of Fay and keeps our weather unsettled. Considering Fay’s history of slow motion, we will keep showers and storms in the forecast for Wednesday; we can adjust the forecast later if all models trend drier.
Thursday and Friday at this time look generally dry, with afternoon temperatures back around the 90 degree mark (hey, this is August, you know).
LABOR DAY WEEKEND: The latest GFS suggests any showers on Saturday will be few and far between with a high around 90. Then, we will mention a chance of scattered showers and storms Sunday and Monday as a weak front moves down into North Alabama and slowly dissipates. No wash-out, but just understand there will be a few showers around.
TROPICS: We have to keep our eye on the ball; the tropical season is far from over. The wave in the Caribbean looks pretty decent on satellite images this morning; watch the Weather Xtreme video for all of the graphics and model output. Many of the models don’t develop the system, but the ones that do move it very slowly toward the Yucatan channel, with potential entry into the Gulf of Mexico. We note the 00Z GDFL does not develop the system at all, but the previous run, the 18Z, ramped the thing up into a major hurricane over the southern Gulf. Model madness rules sometimes; we will be watching.
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I will crank out the next Weather Xtreme video here by 3:30 or so today, unless we have tornado issues at the time, and we will have frequent updates through the day, so stay tuned!
