Yesterday we tied a record in Birmingham, and today we set a new record. Both of the records were related to cold, just not in the more usual fashion that you might expect. Both of the records had to do with record minimum maximum temperatures! Don’t you just love that use of terms? This means the coldest high temperatures for a particular date.
For yesterday, Birmingham recorded a high of 60 which tied the record minimum high temperature originally set in 1967. But today we established a new record minimum high temperature when the observation site at the Birmingham airport only reached 59 degrees. This broke a record that was nearly 100 years old when in 1917 the high temperature only reached 60 degrees.
The chilly weather with highs nearly 20 degrees below our 30-year averages has come about because of a cold core upper low that was spinning just northeast of Birmingham this evening based on the latest upper air observations and weather radar animations. Looks like the upper low will gradually move east allowing a warming trend to set in starting Tuesday and going into the latter part of the week ahead.
Be sure to store these cool days in your memory, so you can draw on that remembrance when we get into the heat of summer!
-Brian-
