SATURDAY: Mostly cloudy skies, warm and breezy. High: 71. Winds: S 15-25 MPH with gusts as high as 45 MPH
SATURDAY NIGHT: Mostly cloudy skies, a chance of showers and thunderstorms late. Some storms could be strong to severe. Low: 47. Winds: S 10-15 MPH with gusts as high as 30 MPH.
SUNDAY: Mostly cloudy skies, a chance of showers and thunderstorms, primarily in the morning. High: 54.
SUNDAY NIGHT: Decreasing clouds, skies becoming partly cloudy. Low: 28.
After a dry end of the week, we have a busy weather weekend ahead with our first rounds of spring, like thunderstorms possible with unseasonably warm temperatures, before a cool down for the end of the weekend in early next week.
We’re watching a line of showers and thunderstorms that has developed overnight Friday night early on Saturday morning that we move through the region for the first part of the day on Sunday. There may be some gusty winds with these thunderstorms, but we are keeping an eye on the severe weather potential throughout the morning hours.
Once that round of thunderstorms rolls through, we will keep the cloud cover into the forecast for the rest of the day and it will be unseasonably warm into the afternoon. High temperature is heading for the lower 70s by Saturday afternoon, and expect winds to gust upwards of 45 mph for a good part of the day.
A Wind Advisory is an effect for the entire region through 8:00 PM Saturday Night as we were expecting the strong wind gust to stick around for most of the day on Saturday. If you do have any items outdoors, or even the trash cans outside, you will want to keep an eye on them to make sure they do not blow around as we work throughout the day.
We are tracking another round of thunderstorms rolling into the region Saturday night into the overnight hours and early Sunday morning, a few storms could be strong to possibly severe.
A strong, low pressure system and cold front will work through the region all the way down into the Gulf states as we work throughout the start of the weekend, with that comes to the potential for some strongest severe thunderstorms. The Storm Prediction Center has placed the entire region under a Marginal Risk (1 out of 5) on our severe weather scale. This system has a reach all the way down to the Gulf states, where a High Risk (5 out of 5) for severe weather is in place for portions of Alabama and Mississippi. A violent tornado outbreak is possible over portions of the golf states working throughout the day today, here at home or thunderstorms that could be strong to severe will have damaging wind potential, and I’m not going to rule out an isolated tornado.
Once that moves through on Sunday morning, temperatures won’t move much throughout the day, we will hit our high in the middle 50s by Sunday afternoon.
The clouds will decrease overnight Sunday night and early on Monday morning, and it will be cold overnight. Overnight lows dropping into the upper 20s as you head out the door to the bus stop early Monday morning.
Dry weather sticks around into the forecast until the middle of the week on Wednesday, and we start to warm things up, looking ahead into the middle of next week as well. High temperatures near average into the upper 40s on Monday, will give way to the 60s once again for Tuesday and Wednesday.
Another system rolled through the region by the middle of the week, with a chance of rain showers late Wednesday into Thursday. And as colder air moves into the region, this could end as a few snowflakes Thursday afternoon and early Thursday evening. High temperature is dropping into the middle 40s for the first day of spring on Thursday.
