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Thanks to Eddie Todd for finding that embarrassing video from my senior year in high school… in the post below this one. Within one month of that interview, I would begin work at WTBC-AM in Tuscaloosa (yeah, with the redneck accent), and begin a career in broadcasting that has lasted 36 years. I would leave WTBC in 1978 to go to the TV side, working for Channel 33, the same station that aired that interview, and part of the station where I work today.
THE DAYS AHEAD: We will be well down in the 20s early tomorrow morning, and tomorrow promises to be another sunny and cool day with a high in the 50s.
Not much change in our thinking for the weekend clipper; it now looks like Saturday will be dry with a high in the low 60s; then a few periods of light rain are likely Saturday night, possibly mixed with a few snow flakes after midnight. The NAM, the GFS, and the ECMWF are in pretty good agreement now. All of the precipitation should be over by 6:00 a.m. Sunday. Rain totals of one-quarter inch or less can be expected, and where snow flakes do fall, I don’t think there will be any travel issues. Of course, we will be monitoring the wave as it approaches.
Sunday will be colder with the sky becoming mostly sunny; the high will be in the upper 40s.
NEXT WEEK: The GFS continues the idea of a ridge moving into the Deep South from the Gulf; this upper ridge holds the waves in the mid-latitude westerlies to the west and north of Alabama, and accordingly it keeps most of the rain to the west and north, even at the end of the week. Temperatures will warm up, and the latter half of the week should be unseasonably mild with highs in the 60s. We might touch 70 by Thursday and Friday.
THE LAND OF VOODOO: Still no sign of any seriously cold air on the GFS through the first week in March. Maybe, just maybe, the coldest air this winter is behind us. But, we all know it can get pretty cold here in March and April. The average date of the last freeze is March 23, and we have seen freezing temperatures as late as April 23.
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I won’t be able to produce a morning edition of the Weather Xtreme video tomorrow morning due to travel (I am speaking in Chattanooga, Tennessee tomorrow morning, but I will post some notes before I head out.
