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MANY MANY PICTURES: Wow… thanks to everyone for the great images of the severe weather in Alabama yesterday, and the aftermath. Hundreds of them, and you can see them all on our Flickr feed here.
STORMS LONG GONE: A cool stable airmass has moved into Alabama in the wake of yesterday’s thunderstorms; we expect a sunny sky today and tomorrow with highs in the 50s. We will be down in the 20s early tomorrow morning; the NAM is the coldest model, printing 24 for Birmingham.
WEEKEND CLIPPER: The next event on the plate is a clipper type system that will arrive over the weekend. In fact, we might see some decent sunshine Saturday morning, and we have a chance of reaching the low 60s Saturday afternoon.
The models have trended slower with this feature, and it looks like the main window for precipitation will be from about 4:00 p.m. Saturday until 8:00 a.m. Sunday. These systems rarely feature much moisture, unless the upper impulse can spin up a surface low in the Gulf. The ECMWF tried to do this a couple of days ago, but it is trending toward the GFS, showing a band of light rain with no serious surface reflection in the Gulf. Both the GFS and the ECMWF hint there could be a few snow flakes mixed in with the rain late Saturday night or early Sunday, mainly north of Birmingham.
The 00Z NAM is the outlier; watch the Weather Xtreme video and you can see it does indeed spin up a nice surface low to the south with rain changing to snow after midnight Saturday night with some potential for accumulation. This solution for now is rejected.
The sky will become sunny on Sunday as dry air moves in following the clipper.
NEXT WEEK: The GFS more and more is suggesting the best chance of rain next week will come toward the end of the week, late Thursday and Friday (2 26-27).
VOODOO LAND: The GFS does not show any seriously cold, Arctic air invading Alabama through the first week of March. Understand, we always have cold spells in March and April, but we wonder if the coldest air of the 2008-2009 winter season is behind us now. Time will tell.
STORM ALERT 2009: Just a reminder we will be in Oxford tonight at the Oxford Civic Center. The show begins at 7:00, but come early for a good seat. I would image everyone wants to talk weather after yesterday!
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