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The frontal boundary that has been lying well to our north for the last several days is a bit closer. And some strong thunderstorms have been ongoing for much of the early morning hours with a severe thunderstorm watch across a portion of Middle and East Tennessee. That watch is set to expire around 10 am, but I expect to see other watches issued today and tonight with a large elongated area for potentially severe weather stretching from the Carolinas in a sweeping arc back into Kansas, Nebraska, and Wyoming.
Besides the front, the ongoing storms have laid down additional boundaries that will help to focus additional convective development today and tonight. So it looks like a couple of days with some storm weather. Unfortunately, unless you get under some of these storms, you are not likely to catch much rain in your gauge.
That same frontal boundary will be the focus for additional storms on Monday, but I think by Tuesday the boundary will wash out paving the way for mostly dry and hot weather through much of the upcoming week. Isolated afternoon and evening storms will remain a possibility, but much of Central Alabama will be dry.
Tropics got off to an early start with the naming of Tropical Storm Arthur yesterday afternoon. Arthur formed off the remnants of Alma from the Eastern Pacific. Arthur remains a weak, marginal tropical storm as it moves slowly westward across the southern part of the Yucatan Peninsula. The forecast remains a steady west motion with the storm being downgraded to a tropical depression later today. The primary effect will be the production of heavy rain over that whole area.
Not much to talk about in voodoo country. The upper ridge remains a permanent feature in the overall pattern with the main band of westerlies will north of Central Alabama. The GFS does produce an interesting solution with a weakness in the upper level pattern over the Southeast by late in the forecast period – but that’s highly speculative.
I hope that you have a great Sunday. James Spann will be back in the saddle with the next Weather Xtreme Video around 7 am or so tomorrow morning. I’ll be filling in for Jason Simpson on the Good Morning Alabama program this coming week, so tune in for the latest weather information. God bless.
-Brian-
