The Friday morning ABC 33/40 Weather Xtreme video is available in the player below, and on iTunes:
I don’t know about you but this fog is getting on my nerves… once again very restricted visibility in places, including Birmingham and Tuscaloosa. Seems like the fog isn’t nearly as bad over on the eastern side of the state.
Once the fog burns off the day will be spring-like, with afternoon temperatures reaching the low 70s. In spots where the fog hangs tough for several hours, however, highs there will be in the 60s. It was very interesting to note that yesterday the fog never really burned off along the Tombigbee River at Demopolis; our SKYCAM site there had a high of only 58.
WARM WEEKEND: No change for the weekend; temperatures about 15 degrees above normal with a decent amount of sunshine both tomorrow and Sunday.
NEXT WEEK: A deep storm will move through the southwest part of the U.S. early next week; we are looking at a pretty good snow event for the mountains of Arizona (one of our affiliate radio stations is out there and covers Flagstaff). That system will bring our next chance of rain, and the latest GFS run (06Z) in the house still holds the main band of rain off until Thursday. The 00Z run targeted Wednesday, with some hint of strong storms. Bottom line is that some rain might begin as early as Tuesday night, but gut feeling here with a deep upper system coming out of the southwest says Thursday will be the biggest rain day next week. Following the rain, the weather turns colder by Friday December 22 (one week from today), but nothing severely cold for December. The GFS MOS drops our high on Friday to 55, which is about where we should be for late December. But, that will be almost 20 degrees colder than the highs we will see this weekend.
CHRISTMAS WEATHER: Looks like we will be generally dry December 23-24, but a series of impulses coming down the back side of the eastern U.S. trough will sharpen it up, and it should deliver a pretty good shot of cold air right around Christmas Day, which should make old Saint Nick feel more at home. I bet he would really be sweating in that suit if we had temperatures in the 70s here on Christmas. I think highs will be in the 40s, and lows possibly down in the 20s based on the latest look.
Looks dry, although an active southern stream will be over the Gulf of Mexico as the colder air arrives. I guess the White Christmas dreamers have some hope, but looks like the mischief with the southern stream will stay south of here. Beyond Christmas the weather looks pretty changeable during the last week of the year.
GEOMAGNETIC STORM: Read more about the ongoing space weather issues over on our sister site, weatherparty.com. Wonder if anyone saw the Northern Lights down this way last night.
I will have the next Weather Xtreme video posted by 3:30 this afternoon…..
