Saturday, September 14, 2024

Rain Clearing Up by Tuesday, Mild Rest of Week

FORECAST:

Sunday (High 78, Low 65): Mostly cloudy and breezy. Numerous rounds of showers are possible.

Monday (High 81, Low 63): Partly to mostly sunny and breezy. An isolated, lingering shower is possible.

Tuesday (High 83, Low 60): Sunny. Cool in the morning, mild in the afternoon, with low humidity levels.

EXTENDED OUTLOOK:

Wednesday (High 83, Low 58): Sunny.

Thursday (High 84, Low 57): Sunny.

Friday (High 85, Low 58): Sunny.

Saturday (High 84, Low 59): Mostly sunny. 

BEACH FORECAST:

Sunday (High 83, Low 74): Partly to mostly cloudy. Numerous rounds of showers and thunderstorms are possible.

Monday (High 82, Low 73): Showers and thunderstorms likely. Rain will last into the night hours. 

Tuesday (High 83, Low 72): Partly cloudy. Scattered, lingering showers and thunderstorms are possible. 

Wednesday (High 84, Low 73): Mostly sunny. An isolated shower or thunderstorm is possible. 

Thursday through Saturday (Highs in upper 80's, Lows in lower 70's): Mostly sunny. 

PRONÓSTICO:

Domingo (Máxima 78, Mínima 65): Mayormente nublado y ventoso. Es posible que haya varias rondas de lluvias.

Lunes (Máxima 81, Mínima 63): Parcialmente a mayormente soleado y ventoso. Es posible que haya una lluvia aislada y persistente.

Martes (Máxima 83, Mínima 60): Soleado. Fresco por la mañana, templado por la tarde, con niveles bajos de humedad.

PERSPECTIVA EXTENDIDA:

Miércoles (Máxima 83, Mínima 58): Soleado.

Jueves (Máxima 84, Mínima 57): Soleado.

Viernes (Máxima 85, Mínima 58): Soleado.

Sábado (Máxima 84, Mínima 59): Mayormente soleado.

PRONÓSTICO PARA LA PLAYA:

Domingo (Máxima 83, Mínima 74): Parcialmente a mayormente nublado. Es posible que haya varias rondas de lluvias y tormentas eléctricas.

Lunes (Máxima 82, Mínima 73): Probabilidad de lluvias y tormentas eléctricas. La lluvia durará hasta la noche.

Martes (Máxima de 83, Mínima de 72): Parcialmente nublado. Es posible que haya lluvias y tormentas eléctricas dispersas y persistentes.

Miércoles (Máxima de 84, Mínima de 73): Mayormente soleado. Es posible que haya una lluvia o tormenta eléctrica aislada.

De Jueves a Sábado (Máximas entre 85 y 90, Mínimas entre 70 y 75): Mayormente soleado.

NOTES:

The National Weather Service in Birmingham has scheduled several SKYWARN classes, mostly online. The Nashville office has scheduled their first in-person classes in a long time. And it looks like Huntsville has one scheduled in Fayetteville the evening of the 23rd. They are likely to add more later. 

These classes are free, and anyone with an interest in learning more about severe weather and/or public safety is strongly encouraged to try one out. And bring somebody with you if you like!

DISCUSSION:





It has been another rainy day in the Tennessee Valley, and some places are still dealing with flooding issues. Rainfall totals over the past two days were significant for just about all of us. The High in Cullman today was 72, and the Low was 68. It's been breezy with a lot of fog too. Huntsville saw a High of 76 and Low of 71. 

Our threat for severe convective weather has ended, but yesterday did bring several damaging thunderstorm wind reports across the region. A storm survey was done for the damage in Locust Fork in Blount County. Hats off to those forecasters who got out in the mess and got this survey done so efficiently. 

Let's look at a few of the others. 

Well we had a couple at Good Hope in Cullman County. Let's start there. A tree came down along Highway 69 and CR-223. And there was another tree that came down along County Road 820. 

Then up in Colbert County, a power pole was reported down or learning along Highway 247 in Tuscumbia. And then in Limestone County, a tree was down along Lentzville Road and Lakeside Estates near Rogersville. 

There were too many wind damage reports to really collect on Thursday from the regular gradient winds as the remnants of Hurricane Francine were strongest over our area. It was minor stuff like this, mostly trees down. And fortunately, there were no reports of tornadoes anywhere around here. On Thursday, there was not enough unstable air to tap into the wind shear. Then yesterday, the wind shear was lacking. All the wind damage yesterday seems to have come from damaging straight-line winds, when we had a lot better instability to work with. 

And the main trouble we've had ended up being flooding. 

There's still a remnant low that the remnants of the hurricane has gotten absorbed in, back in Mississippi, along with a front stalled out to our South. 




Tomorrow looks mostly cloudy and breezy, with numerous rounds of showers still possible. Doubt we have much thunder. Chance of any one spot getting wet is about 50/50. Expecting a High of about 77-78, Low near 65. 

On Monday the rain is basically out of here, but will keep a minimal 20% chance in there to be on the safe side, so about a 1-in-5 chance of any one spot getting a shower then. The sun will break out a good bit, but it will still be breezy. High should be about 80 or so, Low in the lower 60's. 

Then high pressure takes over in full force by Tuesday, with sunny skies, a High in the lower 80's, Low near 60. Some of the cooler pockets will see upper 50's. 







And that pattern looks to hold the rest of the week, fairly typical for September. We'll generally see Highs in the lower-to-mid-80's and Lows in the upper 50's or about 60. The air looks to stay very dry in the extended, with only a few fair-weather clouds in the sky, if that. 


There is an area of low pressure off the East Carolina coasts, but it isn't really tropical in nature. It could eventually develop that way over the next week, but even if so, it is not expected to influence our local weather, because of that high pressure system that will move in here Tuesday. 



Tropical Storm Gordon is expected to weaken a tropical depression by Sunday, and I'm really not worried about it at all, just mentioning it in the interest of being thorough. 


Additional rainfall totals will probably only get up to about another half-inch or less. So that's good news for folks who have dealt with flood waters. It'll be interesting to see our next drought monitor statement, since nobody counted on this when the last one was issued. 

And in non-weather news, the paranoia continues about cat-eating in Ohio, apparently. 


A journalist in Atlanta, with all due diligence, managed to find a real case of some nut actually eating a cat in Ohio. So I thought I'd also do my part by emphasizing that this woman did not eat the cat as part of any sort of religious ritual, and she wasn't even a Haitian immigrant. (They seem to be the target of this crapola at the moment. Poor folks.) Check out this news story out of Ohio for the full rundown on the whole mess. The short version is that some people are just loons who don't mind taking their insanity and cruelty out on domesticated animals that most of us would rather cherish as companions. I've known plenty of southern-born, southern-bred people over the years who could be justly charged with that as much as this woman in Ohio. Unlike her, many of them have had a tendency to escape the law. But for those of you with a sense of humor, I will simply say that my good man Salem might decide to put the hoodoo on 'em every once in a while. 

There was a time in history that the Jews were singled out by the Nazis as drinking the blood of babies through straws, and before that, accused of the same thing by the Christians who were part of the Inquisitions. (Right now, it seems to mainly be the Islamic terrorist group Hamas that has a stick up its "wherever" about the Jewish people. Which is a separate can of worms.) And there was a time the Christians were the targets of the same hysteria, the early Christians, by the Romans. We all know it is wrong to smear people with these kinds of outlandish claims, that have no basis in reality. And I don't even care what religion you are. We all have an inner sense that this is . . . not for the best, to put it mildly. Some of those ancient Chinese religions would say that these things "tend not toward edification" or are "opposed to the way of life." If you're into that whole WWJD idea, there are some parts of the Bible that make a pretty good case against scapegoating being any kind of a virtue. For that matter, the crucifix a lot of people casually wear around their necks, or as earrings, makes a pretty solid case against that mentality, all by itself. So if you care enough to read my stuff, please take the time to think twice and to refuse to spread paranoid tripe about other people. 

And I hope you enjoy the nicer weather. 

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