Warm, Muggy, Scattered Showers and Storms
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HELLO MAY: Sunday will be a rather warm and muggy with showers and storms once again a possibility. Tomorrow will be very similar today, with most of the day expected to be dry, but showers and storms will occur. Due to the unstable air mass, specific start and stop times are nearly impossible to pin point, but have the rain gear close to hand tomorrow. The race out at Talladega, should be able to be completed tomorrow, but of course a weather delay cannot be ruled out.
ON THE MAPS: A longwave trough is in place to our west, and for the past few days, and the next couple of days, impulses of energy have been rotating around the base of the trough and then ejecting east into the Southeast. The impulses of energy allow showers and thunderstorm complexes to develop and head our direction. This will continue to occur into the new work week.
WET START TO WORK WEEK: The trough will start the fill in/weaken and move eastward. At the surface, an area of low pressure will work across the Ohio River Valley with a front slowly dragging down into the Southeast. Ahead of this system, we will stay in southwesterly flow which will allow for continued showers and storms to be in the forecast Monday and Tuesday.
VERY NICE WEATHER: By Tuesday and Wednesday, a strong ridge develops over the Plains, and troughs develop over the West and East Coast. This will sweep the unsettled weather out of the area Tuesday with Wednesday becoming sunny and dry once again. We are going to be in northwesterly flow and that will allow for cooler and drier air to to move into Alabama. Temperatures will gradually come down and by Friday morning, temperatures look to be chilly with the latest model data suggesting we could well see morning lows well down into the 50s, which would be 10-15 degrees colder than we typically see for early May. The weather stays nice into the weekend as the upper ridge gradually weakens somewhat and moves eastward. Saturday we could still see some morning lows into the 50s with most places around with the afternoon high in the upper 70s, the potential for a gorgeous early May weekend.
