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How about this song by Wet Willie from the summer of 1979…
“One Friday evenin’
What a feelin’, feel like singin’
Tired of workin’, my mind is buzzin’
Feel like dancin’ yes I do
But you gotta make the best of life while you’re young
Good people, weekend
Do just what you wanna do, weekend
When those workin’ days are through
Weekend, weekend, weekend
Weekend, weekend
You know it’s time to get away, weekend
I wanna hear ev’rybody say
Weekend, weekend, weekend”
I ate lunch with our 10 year old at his school today, and I saw lots of parents pulling their kids out early with their car packed for one final trip to the beach for the summer of 2007. Labor Day weekend is here…
THE ALABAMA WEATHER STORY: Showers and storms are forming across North and Central Alabama as I write this… convective temperatures are being reached, and we will see more showers and storms across the state through the nighttime hours. Bring the rain gear if you are headed for a high school football game tonight; it won’t rain at all stadiums, but it could rain at any stadium. There could be some thunder and lightning involved as well.
The NAM continues to be most aggressive with showers over the weekend, while the GFS is a little drier. One way or another, there will be a continued risk of scattered showers and storms through Monday as the dry air just north of here never makes it into Alabama. The best chance of a shower or storm will be from about 2:00 until 9:00 p.m. Once again, rain gear is a good idea for Auburn and Tuscaloosa tomorrow night for the college opening games.
Afternoon temperatures over the weekend will peak in the 85 to 90 degree range for most communities.
NEXT WEEK: Looks like the risk of scattered storms will stay in the forecast on a daily basis through much of next week, although the GFS looks a little drier for mid-week.
TROPICS: Looks like we have Tropical Storm Felix on our hands; we will have the data from the Hurricane Hunter aircraft in the region shortly; this system will move through the Windward Islands during the next few hours, and will journey through the southern Caribbean over the weekend. This is a low latitude tropical cyclone, and all of the models move it into either Central America or the Yucatan peninsula next week, with no entry into the Gulf of Mexico.
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Brian Peters will have the Weather Xtreme videos over the weekend; I will produce one at some point during the day Monday, and then we back to the regular two a day schedule on Tuesday. Enjoy the weekend.
