Mild Weekend Ahead; Just A Few Showers
WARMING TREND CONTINUES: Temperatures will climb to around 60 degrees this afternoon with a partly sunny sky as the warming trend continues. Mild weather will continue over the weekend, but we won’t see as much sun tomorrow and Sunday as moisture levels rise. We will mention the chance of a few isolated showers tomorrow and Sunday, but a decent part of the weekend will be dry. Highs will be in the 60s.
NEXT WEEK: Temperatures will remain above average for the first half of the week with a few places reaching the low 70s Tuesday and Wednesday. The sky will be mostly cloudy with some risk of showers, and maybe even a thunderstorm each day with a surface front stalled out just to the north. There is a good bit of model inconsistency later in the week, but the general idea is that the cold front finally gets a southward push, and we see cooler air by Friday. See the Weather Xtreme video for maps, graphics, and more details.
BRUTAL COLD BEGINNING TO EXIT THE U.S.: Chicago will climb to a balmy 20 degrees today, and by Monday they expect a high around 50 as the bitterly cold air exits the region.
WELCOME TO FEBRUARY: Birmingham’s average high/low today is 55/35… it will rise to 62/40 by February 28. The coldest temperature on record came on February 13, 1899, when Birmingham dropped to -10F. Our average rain for the month is 4.80″.
ON THIS DATE IN 1955: Seen first as a “well defined cone-shaped funnel” over the Mississippi River, this F3 tornado cut a path from Commerce Landing to Clark in northeastern Mississippi. This tornado killed 20 and injured at least 141 individuals. Most of the deaths were in a school.
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