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Anyone remember the Four Tops?
“You’re sweet as a honey bee
But like a honey bee stings
You’ve gone and left my heart in pain
All you left is our favorite song
The one we danced to all night long
It used to bring sweet memories
Of a tender love that used to be
Now it’s the same old song
But with a different meaning
Since you been gone
It’s the same old song
But with a different meaning
Since you been gone”
We are singing the same old song in the weather office this morning. I really wish I had something exciting to report; some weather system that will come in here and break the back of the Alabama drought. But, the weather pattern simply doesn’t offer much hope for the next two weeks.
REST OF THE WEEK: A wedge of cooler air will try to poke in here during the next 48 hours, but the most noticeable impact will be east of here, over Georgia and the Carolinas. The wedge will probably shave a few degrees off the afternoon highs, mainly over the eastern half of the state. The NAM continues to be most aggressive model; it drops the high in Birmingham down to near 80 tomorrow and Friday. We figure highs will range from around 80 near the Georgia border, to the mid to upper 80s over the western third.
Smoke from the Georgia fires will continue to be a problem today restricting visibility, but hopefully a more easterly component of wind will clear the air a bit tomorrow and Friday.
MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND: Warm and dry all across the Deep South. No rain for Alabama, the Gulf coast, or the Great Smoky Mountains. Highs in the 80s; lows in the 60s. A tad cooler up in the mountains, of course.
TROPICAL UPDATE FOR NEXT WEEK: No real change; the GFS remains very persistent in developing a tropical storm near the Yucatan Channel around the middle the week (the name will be Barry if it happens); it then takes the system over the Florida peninsula and into the open Atlantic. Great news for southern Florida, where beneficial rain will be likely in this scenario south of I-4 (probably south of Lake City as well), but it will leave Alabama high and dry. No real significant chance of rain for Alabama through much of next week.
LONG RANGE: The 00Z GFS does show a broad upper trough over the eastern U.S. around June 7, which would drag a surface front toward the Alabama/Tennessee border, but this is pure voodoo. You know the old saying, “you don’t forecast rain in the middle of a drought”.
WEATHER BRAINS: David Black scored a very interesting interview with Bill Proenza, the new director of the National Hurricane Center, Monday night, and he was able to include that into this week’s edition of our WeatherBrains netcast. Listen to the show on the web, or you can subscribe through iTunes.
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Today I will be speaking at the Emmet O’Neal Library in Mountain Brook at 12:15… the subject is climate change. Drop by during the lunch hour if you can; I am very thankful for the opportunity to present my side of the issue. The media, generally speaking, for whatever reason, won’t tell both sides of the story. I will have the next Weather Xtreme video posted by 3:30 this afternoon!
