Chilly Saturday; Cold Sunday Morning

The rain that fell across Central Alabama Friday evening and early this morning has moved out of North and Central Alabama with a surface low situated near Demopolis along the frontal boundary stretching from Southeast Mississippi into North Georgia. The wind across Central Alabama had come around to the north with temperatures in the 40s across the Tennessee River Valley and in the 50s across much of Central Alabama. South Alabama counties were still in the 60s. Today is going to be chilly and raw with clouds hanging tough and at least some chance for patchy rain or a passing shower.

Freeze warnings were in effect for a large swath of the Southeast US from Oklahoma and North Central Texas to the southern Appalachians including about the northern half of Alabama for Sunday morning. A wind advisory was also in effect for much of the northern quadrant of Alabama east of I-65 for this afternoon and this evening for wind 15 to 25 mph with higher gusts.

SPC has the standard slight risk for severe storms across North Florida and along the Southeast US coast of Georgia and the Carolinas.

The upper trough moves by early Sunday as surface high pressure settles into the Southeast US. This will be another chilly morning with that freeze warning in effect from 2 am to 9 am Sunday morning as the morning temperatures drop into the lower 30s. Frost is expected across much of the northern half of Alabama. Highs Sunday should recover a bit from today with readings in the middle 60s.

The upper level pattern flattens out on Monday but sharpens up with a short wave moving across the Southeast US on Tuesday. We’ll maintain a small chance for showers both days though most people will probably stay dry. The afternoon highs should reach the lower 70s.

For Wednesday and into the latter half of the week we should remain dry and fairly warm as an upper ridge builds across the eastern US. Look for highs to reach well into the 70s and potentially around 80 by Friday. But on Friday we will have our eye on a strong upper level closed low over western Nebraska that will generate a surface low in Northeast Nebraska that will move toward the western Great Lakes on Saturday while dragging a cold front across the Mississippi River. This should bring another rainy and somewhat stormy start to next weekend. But it does look like we should dry out while cooling down for next Sunday.

Looking out into voodoo country, the pattern remains pretty active. By Monday, April 16th, the eastern US trough moves off the coast while a new trough enters the picture over Wyoming. The Wyoming trough digs into the Ohio River Valley on April 18th bringing a another potential for some brief cold to the eastern half of the country by April 19th. The overall pattern begins to dampen somewhat by the 22nd of April.

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-Brian-

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