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We have a pretty straight forward forecast package this morning… no rain through the weekend with a major shot of cooler air moving in here tonight. Looks like early morning lows will be in the 44 to 49 degree range tomorrow, Friday, and Saturday with afternoon highs between 69 and 74. We will enjoy a fresh north breeze and very low humidity. What a great weekend for high school and college football.
NEXT WEEK AND BEYOND: The GFS pushes an upper trough north of Alabama early next week, and will bring our next chance of showers by Monday night and Tuesday. For now, that doesn’t look like a major rain event. However, deeper into voodoo country, it does show a much stronger trough with a better rain event around October 19. Then, the GFS continues to show a very deep upper trough over the eastern half of the nation in the October 21-23 time frame, which would pull down some really chilly air. In fact, if the model is correct, that would bring our first frost of the season to the valleys of North Alabama. There has been some good consistency in the GFS in recent runs, increasing confidence in this idea.
TROPICS: While we haven’t had much to discuss in recent days, the Caribbean remains very unsettled, and we will need to keep an eye on things down there for the rest of the month. The system adjacent to the Yucatan and Belize is too close to land for serious organization at this point.
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