Good Morning!   The news is pretty good on this first full week of 2026.  After some morning patchy dense fog this morning, we have a nice day ahead. Today’s high in the upper 60’s.  (Normal 59/37)  There’s a nice warming trend in our future.  We’ll be in the 70’s tomorrow through Friday.  Our next weather maker will bring rain and thunderstorms by Friday and Friday night.  Will that be a Severe Weather threat.  Perhaps.  It’s little early to say right now.  Much cooler air will follow this weekend.  Here’s my brief video forecast discussion.

TODAY:  Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with a high near 68. Calm wind becoming south around 5 mph.

Tonight: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 51.

NEXT FEW DAYS:    

 There’s a nice warming trend in our future.  We’ll be in the 70’s tomorrow through Friday.  Tuesday and Wednesday will be dry and warm.  Our next weather maker will bring rain and thunderstorms by Friday and Friday night.  Much cooler air will follow this weekend.  

Friday storm system.  Looks like rain and storms will be most concentrated Friday night and early Saturday.  Too early to say whether this could be a severe weather threat.

Right Now — SPC Has a Friday Severe outlook that nicks NW Alabama. This could be expanded as the week goes on.

Here’s the model blend 7 day expected rainfall outlook.

Here’s the 10 Day Model Blend Temperature Trend.   70’s through Friday.  Much cooler starting this weekend.

Here’s a peak at the EURO 16 day Ensemble outlook.

Here’s the GFS on Saturday January 17^th.  Another shot of Arctic Air?  We’ll keep watching.

Thanks for reading this Blog this morning. This morning we are LIVE on the radio from 6 to 9 on NewsTalk 93.1.  I’ll have another update for you in the 4  o’clock hour tomorrow morning.  Have a nice day.

–Rich