Good Morning! Welcome to the last day of Winter. It will be a nice warm day as we head for the lower 80’s. Expect showers and storms in the overnight hours tonight. What a change on the way! It will turn quite a bit cooler tomorrow, behind a cold front, on the first day of Spring. Highs may not make it out of the 50’s. And, Attention Alabama growers. We are headed to the low to mid 30’s Thursday night. Expect Areas of frost on Friday morning. We’ll be warmer again by the weekend. Mid 70’s Saturday. Near 80 Sunday. Another chance of showers and storms arrives Sunday night. Here’s my brief video forecast discussion.
TODAY: Warm-up continues. Sun cloud mix. High 82. SE wind 6 to 16 gusting to 30 mph. Dry through the evening hours. Showers and storms become likely late tonight in through the overnight hours. Becoming windy. Low 49.
FUTURE RADAR shows a fizzling line of showers/storms late tonight ahead of a Cold Front.
Northwest Alabama has a Marginal Severe Risk ahead of the front.
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NEXT FEW DAYS: It will turn sharply breezy and cooler Thursday on the first day of Spring. Cold Thursday night. Patchy frost is a good bet Friday morning. It will be warmer again by the weekend. Another chance of showers and storms arrives Sunday night. Weekend warm-up. Mid 70’s Saturday. Near 80 Sunday.
Here’s the 10 day model blend temperature trend.
SUNDAY NIGHT STORMS: The next storm system arrives Sunday night ahead of a cold front. Showers and thunderstorms. Right now, it appears any severe weather threat is small.
TORNADO TRACKS: I mis-spoke yesterday morning. The Tornado Track map has three additional tracks now. A total of 13 tracks from the late Saturday night tornado outbreak. BMX says:
Here’s where we stand as of tonight. No track lines yet for the Sipsey tornado in Walker, as we need to determine whether there is one continuous track from Lake Tuscaloosa to Sipsey (unlikely) or multiple tracks (more likely). We’ll be headed to Sumter County tomorrow.. And, apparently that’s not all. BMX says: Here’s where we stand as of tonight. No track lines yet for the Sipsey tornado in Walker, as we need to determine whether there is one continuous track from Lake Tuscaloosa to Sipsey (unlikely) or multiple tracks (more likely). We’ll be headed to Sumter County tomorrow.
POLLEN: Not good.High levels continue this week.
SPRING BEGINS: Spring begins, officially in the pre-dawn hours of tomorrow morning.
COLD FACTS: The average date of the last freeze has already past. Last year, the last freeze was on thus date. 29 on March 19, 2024.
Thanks for reading this blog update. This morning everything is normal. We’ll be LIVE on NewsTalk 93.1. There will be another Blog Update and Forecast Video discussion in the 4’o’clock hour tomorrow morning. Have a good day.
–Rich