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The complexity of the weather pattern affecting Central Alabama is decreasing as the cold front we’ve been talking about for several days is finally making its way through the area. The front was located basically along the Alabama-Mississippi line and should be traversing eastward this morning sweeping the showers out of the area by about noon time. This should bring a return to sunshine by the afternoon hours as the clouds move east, too.
With a nice northwesterly flow aloft, we should see much drier and cooler air for the area on Saturday with a gorgeous day in store for the Southeast US. Besides being cooler, the humidity levels will be down considerably with dew points expect to fall back into the lower 50s. Look for a low Saturday morning of 54 with a warm up to a high in the lower 80s. This will actually be a little below average values for June 1st which are 85 and 64 and will feel very good.
The cool will be short-lived as we warm up nicely on Sunday back to the mid and upper 80s. But we maintain a northwesterly flow pattern with the trough located just off the Atlantic coast. This flow will see a number of weak disturbances or short waves moving through that northwesterly flow which will see a return to scattered showers Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. There is some difference in the GFS and ECMWF solutions with the ECMWF being more aggressive with the showers especially from Wednesday into Friday. For now, the ECMWF seems to be overdoing it somewhat so I prefer the less aggressive GFS. But it still means some daily shower chances for us with highs once again approaching 90 degrees or a little above average for early June.
SPC outlooking an area along the Mid-Atlantic Coast for a slight risk of severe storms today along with a small patch in the Texas Panhandle. Day 2 the only severe weather risk is in the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles.
Looking into week two or voodoo country, the northwesterly flow pattern sticks around for a little longer but does get replaced around the 13th with the heat ridge once again.
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Looked out from our travel trailer at Cheaha State Park yesterday afternoon and saw 13 deer grazing on the corn we bring along with us. Lots of interesting dynamics among the deer as to which ones got to eat and which ones got driven off. It is so much fun to watch them. Look for the next Weather Xtreme Video to be posted by 8 am or so on Saturday morning. Godspeed.
-Brian-
