Beautiful Day . . . Don't Let It Get Away . . . .

FORECAST:


Today: Sunny. Lovely! High 60


Wed: Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers - chances increasing overnight. High 63, Low 41


Thu: Rain - flash flooding/river flooding possible. High 65, Low 52


EXTENDED OUTLOOK:


Fri: Decreasing clouds and cooler temperatures. High 55, Low 43


Sat: Sunny. High 53, Low 31


Sun: Sunny. High 47, Low 27


Mon: Mostly sunny. High 51, Low 30

NOTES:

NWS Huntsville put together a list of rainfall totals from Monday morning.

And here's the latest from NWS Birmingham on the strong tornadoes that same morning.

DISCUSSION:

So we've got fair skies here at 5 a.m. and a temperature of 39 in Huntsville. A little scattered fog across the region, nothing major. Calm winds. Pressure at 30.16 inches. Today is going to be a very nice day.

Plenty of sunshine the rest of today, with a High around 60. Calm winds from the north.

Tomorrow moisture starts to increase ahead of a warm front and associated upper low from out west. Should mention at least a chance of showers, although by now I'm thinking more a chance of rain tomorrow evening/night. Timing is a little tricky here.

 As the Low approaches on Thursday and we have strong southwesterly Gulf flow, rain should really overspread the area. We will have to watch for some flash flooding and river flooding, since we've already had a bit of that lately, and this system looks to move fairly slowly. Not concerned with any convective severe weather though. Yay . . .

Things actually start to look more like normal winter weather for the weekend, starting on Friday when a cold front should push all this moisture on out of here, and we clear out and turn cooler. I'd say a High in the Low 50's is likely here.

The weekend through Monday . . . northwest wind flow sets up. We may get a reinforcing shot of cool air over the weekend as well, and I wouldn't be surprised to see Highs dipping into the 40's and Lows dipping into the 20's, probably on Sunday, that's probably our coldest day.

And then by Tuesday it looks like another cold front might be headed at us with another chance of rain. Of course, Day 7 is always just looking for a trend, just a semi-educated guess. At least speaking for my own forecasting abilities, such as they are.

All right . . . I've got some serious catching up to do in school, but I'll still try to post forecasts on here from time to time. May need a bit of a break from this . . . not sure. You can also follow my weather updates on Twitter, and that's about as far as I'm going with social media anymore for a while. It just ceases to be fun after a while, and especially just seeing tons of repetitive in-your-face images of tornado devastation and such . . . I just was not wired for that, apparently. Seeing it in real life is a sobering and meaningful experience, but seeing pics/vids splashed all over the interwebs just has a sick/exploitative feel to it, for me personally, after a while.

Oh, one last note . . . for whatever buffoons in the national media made the absurd statement that there were no warnings for those tornadoes the other night (when in fact there were excellent warnings, with plenty of lead time, and more than adequately relayed by local media and emergency management) . . . feel free to kiss my ass, slowly and tenderly. You . . . like peanut butter? Enjoy.

P.S. So much for being more professional and classy on here, huh?