Good Morning!  Our wild daily temperature swings continue.   Today will be about 10 degrees warmer than yesterday. We’ll be in the mid 60’s today and possibly upper 60’s on Saturday.

A Cold Front will enter Alabama Saturday night.  Showers will proceed the front in the Sunday morning pre-dawn hours.  Sunday will be windy with falling temperatures as Much Colder Arctic Air Floods into our state.  Sunday night/Monday Dawn will be FRIGID.  An Arctic shocker.  Low in the low 20’s.  Wind Chill in the lower teens.   Monday’s high will struggle to reach the lower 40’s.  We’re headed for the mid 20’s Monday night.  Here’s my brief video forecast discussion.

TODAY:   Sunny and warmer. High near 66. West wind 5 to 10 mph.   TONIGHT: Partly cloudy.  Not as cool.  Low 46.

NEXT FEW DAYS:    A Cold Front will enter Alabama Saturday night.  Showers will proceed the front in the Sunday morning pre-dawn hours.  Sunday will be windy with falling temperatures as Much Colder Arctic Air Floods into our state.  Sunday night/Monday Dawn will be FRIGID.  An Arctic shocker.  Low in the low 20’s.  Wind Chill in the lower teens.   Monday’s high will struggle to reach the lower 40’s.  We’re headed for the mid 20’s Monday night.  (Normal 63/39)

Take a look at the Projected Wind Chill Monday morning at Dawn. Dangerous Cold. Crazy numbers. Are you ready?

Here’s the expected rainfall map through Sunday.  Showers will proceed the cold front in the Sunday morning pre-dawn hours. Not much.

The 10 Day model blend temperature trend.  The big arctic plunge starts Sunday.   

Here’s the 16 from  the Euro model.  BESIDES the big Arctic Shocker, take a look at Christmas Week.  Could we see much above normal temperatures on Christmas?  

CHRISTMAS FORECAST?:  Right now, the major Global models are indicating a big temperature turn-around Christmas week.  Take a look at this map from the Climate Prediction Center.

Normal hi/lo on Christmas Day would be 60/38.

Right now the Euro Model projects 70/52.  The GFS projects upper 70’s.  The Canadian has 76/53.  I’m not kidding.  All the models have us storm-free and dry.  So, could Christmas be amazingly mild?   So far – that looks like a reasonable idea.  Stay tuned. 

Christmas Day Records:   82 in 2016 – and 5 in 1983.

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