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NOTE: This is the only discussion and Weather Xtreme video today… I won’t have an afternoon post due to the travel schedule; I will be on a long road trip with J.B. Elliott today, including a stop at Jim’s Pit BBQ in Billinsgley, a weather program at Westside Elementary in Demopolis, and live weather on ABC 33/40 at 5:00 and 6:00 from Christmas on The River at Demopolis. I will try to post some pictures from the trip tonight or tomorrow. It is very dangerous when J.B. and I take a road trip.
OUR WEEKEND: The weather stays dry today and tomorrow with chilly mornings and pleasant afternoons (highs in the 60s). A shower is possible Sunday afternoon, but the primary band of showers and storms with the cold front will come Sunday night, generally in the 6:00 p.m. to 3:00 a.m. time frame. Still looking like rain totals of around one-half inch from this system, with little if any threat of severe weather due to marginal instability values.
We do need to point out that this storm system will bring quite a winter storm to parts of the nation.. see all of the winter storm watches and warnings in the graphic below…
NEXT WEEK: Monday will be windy and much colder as temperatures settle into the 40s with a brisk north wind. Model guidance will have a hard time understand the shallow cold air that will be coming down across the fresh snow up north. A significant freeze is likely by Tuesday morning.
The 06Z GFS is showing a clipper system passing north of Alabama at mid-week on Wednesday with some showers down into eastern Tennessee, but the cold front associated with that should come through here in dry fashion Wednesday night. It will bring down some colder air by Thursday.
LONG RANGE: The wet weather system that has been showing up in the December 7-9 time frame has vanished on the latest run of the GFS; that is why we call it voodoo country. The model is shifting to the idea of a mean upper trough over western half of the nation, with a southwest flow aloft developing across the Deep South. There will be very cold air to the west and north of here, and occasional ripples of energy coming out of the mean trough could mean some decent rain events in the December 10-20 period here. It also might mean some nasty ice threats for areas north of Alabama in that shallow cold air… looks like an interesting period. But, hopefully we will get some decent rain along the way. Confidence isn’t too high in all of this due to model inconsistency.
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I know we will enjoy our trip today… I hope you have a wonderful Friday and a great weekend. We might make a few posts along the way if we have time…
