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Our cold front is right on schedule; there are a few showers along the front this morning over Northwest Alabama and Northeast Mississippi, but in the overall scheme of things they sure won’t help our drought much at all. Rain today will be light and spotty, and a number of neighborhoods won’t get a drop. The weather will still feel like summer with warm and muggy conditions statewide. But, after today, fall weather fans will like the forecast.
We make the change from moist, tropical air to dry and cool continental air in coming days. You will really notice it by early Thursday morning, when low 50s are likely. The 00Z GFS is coming in colder for Friday morning; it is now printing 45 degrees for Birmingham. If that is correct, we will probably see a few upper 30s for the colder valleys across Northeast Alabama. The weekend will be delightful with sunny pleasant days and clear, cool, crisp nights.
NEXT WEEK: Still no sign of a serious rain event next week; our weather looks dry as a bone. The 00Z GFS hints at a good chance of showers and storms around October 21 with a negative tilt shortwave trough just northwest of here (that might even suggest severe weather), but that is voodoo right now. October is normally a very dry month, and this year is no exception.
TROPICS: The entire Caribbean is unsettled, but the only system that seems to have a chance at development is just east of Belize, and that will move into Central America today and the interaction with land should prevent it from getting its act together.
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I am off to Cullman this morning to speak at Cullman East Elementary… I will be back in the office by early afternoon, and the afternoon edition of the Weather Xtreme video will be loaded by 3:30!
