Good morning! The last two days of 2024 will be relative3y mild. Highs in the upper 60’s. today and Tuesday An approaching Cold front sweeps through the state Tuesday. New Years Days will be cooler with highs will only be in the 50’s. By Saturday, we’ll be even colder. But, on this blog update, we’ll give you a peek well into what could be a very cold January. There will be various stages of Arctic air. It coud be significant by the middle of the month. Here’s my brief video forecast discussion.
SATURDAY SEVERE OUTBREAK: What a day across the Deep South Saturday. The potent storm system produced 198 wind damage reports over 7 states and a preliminary 41 tornado reports. At least 4 dead from Texas to Georgia, There was one survey Sunday indicating an EF-1 in Lamar county. Today, there will be 2 survey crews. Team 1 will survey damage in Lowndes, Montgomery, and Macon
counties.
Team 2 will survey damage in Shelby and St. Clair counties.
SURVEY PLAN – We will be sending out 2 survey teams tomorrow to cover the potential long track tornadoes. One team will be in Wayne/Choctaw Counties and I believe the other team will be covering Escambia/Conecuh/Monroe/Butler Counties.
TODAY: Patchy AM fog. Then, mostly sunny. Mild. High 69. Increasing clouds tonight as a Cold Front approaches. Low 52. The front arrives on Tuesday. Should be a dry front in our part of the state.
NEXT FEW DAYS: Mild Tuesday. Turning much cooler on New Years Day with highs only in the 50’s. Then, even colder by Saturday, Dry this week.
Here’s the 10 day model blend. Cooler New Years Day and late week. Then, Quite chilly by Saturday,
FUTURE SHOCKER?: Every once in awhile we look way out to the distant horizon for clues about future “Big Deals”. Arctic Air is likely in our future. It will turn progressively colder by about 1/7 and particularly closer to and past Mid January.
Here’s The GFS Temperature Anaomoly maps, Notice very stages of COLD in the 16 day outlook. What we can’t see is the COLDEST aurge arriving in the middle of the month. We just see it approaching.
Heres the EURO Raw numers out 16 days. It shouws some really cold air Jan 7-11. Bu.t, could there be an even bigger chunck of colder air after Mid Month?
Thanks for reading the blog. There will be another complete Blog update and video forecast discussion tomorrow morning. This morning, everything is normal including LIVE on the Radio from 6 to 9AM on NewsTalk 93.1 – WACV. Have a nice day!
–Rich