Have you ever seen a more beautiful blue sky that what we are experiencing across Central Alabama this Saturday afternoon?
Temperatures are near 70 now with beautiful mostly clear skies in place. Regional radars are clear of any precipitation. The closest rain to Birmingham at this hour is an area of showers off the coast of Georgia, some 425 miles sotuheast of Birmingham.
An area of showers was over Southeast Texas near Lufkin. This is what’s left of our upper disturbance that produced storms in Arkansas and Oklahoma yesterday. It will spin up into an upper low over the northern Gulf later tonight and bring clouds and showers to Georgia and Florida. It will also trigger the deveopment of a surface low off the coast of Georgia by Monday. There is some chance that it could develop tropically as it moves up the coast, although that chance is small.
Tonight will be another perfect fall night with clear and calm conditions and lows in the lower 40s generally.
Some lows from this morning…
32 at Crossville and Meridianville
33 at Decatur
34 at Fort Payne and Pinson
35 at Anniston, Tuscaloosa and Montgomery
36 at Cullman, Muscle Shoals and Albertville
38 at Calera
39 at Huntsville and Birmingham Airport
A sneak peek at the 12z run of the GFS shows us dry until Thursday when the cold front associated with the big western system arrives. This run is weaker and more profressive, meaning less rainfall. Darn. My forecast is still based on a slower, wetter system. We will see what succeeding runs show.
I hope you can get out and enjoy the fine fall conditions this afternoon and tomorrow.
