You can watch the afternoon Weather Xtreme Video in the flash player above, or use the iTunes version. On another note… many of you have pointed out the author’s name is not showing up on the blog posts; that is a fairly easy fix and I will try to have that done by the evening. Also, we will have last night’s “Decade of Alabama Weather” posted on the web tonight if you missed it on TV… I will post a note here when it is ready. My MacBook Pro is rendering video like crazy this afternoon… thank goodness for dual core processors. Can’t wait for the quad cores!
NICE SUNSET WARNING: These mid and high level clouds moving in sure have the potential to generate a beautiful sunset; I will try and and point all of our SKYCAMs westward within the hour. The sun is doing down now around 5:00 CST. By the way, we have a link to the ABC 33/40 SKYCAM sites here on the blog… just look on the left sidebar. There are also links to other great sites like WeatherParty.com.
MID-WEEK RAIN? Still looks like we have a window for a few showers from about 6:00 p.m. tomorrow through 6:00 p.m. Wednesday as a cold front slowly slips through the state. Limited moisture and dynamics mean rain should be light and spotty. Hopefully showers tomorrow evening won’t wet down too many trick or treat outings; the good news is that we don’t expect any lightning, and many neighborhoods will be dry.
COOLER AIR RETURNS: A new surge of cool air moves in here on Thursday. At this point the weather looks wonderful Friday through Sunday, with mostly sunny pleasant days and clear cold nights. We still expect the coldest morning to come early Saturday when most communities will drop into the 30s; some frost is likely for the colder valleys. Weather will be excellent for both high school and college football games across the Deep South.
NEXT WEEK: The 12Z GFS has backed off on the strength of the system expected to impact Alabama on Tuesday. It takes the short wave well north of the state as it weakens; this could mean no severe weather and probably no heavy rain. But, I am not convinced that solution is correct; we will just wait and see. We will continue to mention a good chance of showers and storms for Tuesday of next week, election day.
LONG RANGE: Be sure and watch today’s video and see the GFS panels for the November 14-16 time frame; this is all voodoo, but the model is showing a system much like the one that brought a major severe weather outbreak to Alabama November 15, 1989, followed by a very cold day with snow squalls. The biggest tornado during that event was an F4 twister that tore through the southern part of Huntsville with little warning. We will be watching for model consistency in dealing with that mid-month system.
BLOG NOTES: While a majority of our blog readers seem to love the viewer pictures (we have many more waiting to be published), we know some of you come here just for the weather discussions and outlooks. Just use the categories on the left; clicking on “forecast discussion” will give you only these discussions, while clicking on pictures will show on the picture posts. This will help you sort out all of the material on here… and again I will get the script fixed so you can see who is writing what! I will have the next Weather Xtreme Video by 7:00 a.m. tomorrow!
