Wind and storms in Alabama Tuesday

THIS IS WVTM 13 WEATHER. 5:00 THIS EVENING. NOT A SINGLE DROP OF RAIN ON WVTM 13 LIVE DOPPLER RADAR, BUT JUST OUTSIDE THE RANGE OF THE RADAR, YOU CAN SEE A PRETTY HEALTHY BATCH OF SHOWERS AND SOME EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS RUNNING FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO THROUGH LOUISIANA, MISSISSIPPI, ARKANSAS, UP INTO MISSOURI. THEN YOU GET THAT CURLED UP THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX OUT THERE OVER KANSAS THAT BIG AREA OF LOW PRESSURE GOING TO HELP TO DRAG THAT COLD FRONT IN AND BRING UP SOME WARM, HUMID AIR. IT WILL BE BLUSTERY. IT WILL BE WINDY. AND THERE’S A LIMITED RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER ON AN IMPACT DAY TUESDAY. IMPACT DAY JUST MEANS THIS IS GOING TO BE INCONVENIENT WEATHER. WE DON’T ANTICIPATE MAJOR PROBLEMS, BUT YOU MAY HAVE TO LEAVE THE HOUSE EARLY IN THE MORNING, ESPECIALLY WITH THOSE WET ROADS. WATCH THIS. HERE’S A GOOD LOOK AT THE WAY THE TIMING IS GOING TO WORK OUT. FIRST OF ALL, BY MIDNIGHT SHOWERS ALREADY MOVING INTO WEST ALABAMA, WIND GUSTING UPWARDS OF 2020 FIVE MILES PER HOUR. AND THAT’S ABOUT THE TOP LEVEL OF THE WIND. 25 TO 35. THE BIGGER ISSUE IS GOING TO BE THE RAIN MOVING IN. OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING AND THUNDER, MAYBE. KIND OF A TOUGH GO AT THE BUS STOP TOMORROW MORNING TO HEAVIEST RAIN WILL BE WINDING DOWN BEFORE LUNCHTIME, BUT I THINK THE SHOWERS, THEY’RE GOING TO LINGER BEHIND UNTIL ABOUT 4:00 TO MAYBE FIVE, 6:00 OVER EAST ALABAMA TOMORROW AFTERNOON. SOME OF THESE YELLOWS AND REDS HERE MAY BE A TAD OVERDONE BY THE FORECAST MODELING. THE IDEA OVERALL IS FOR HEAVIER RAIN TO THE SOUTH, LIGHTER RAIN TO THE NORTH. BUT IT’S GOING TO BE BREEZY AND WET. BASICALLY ALL DAY LONG. SO STARTING ABOUT MIDNIGHT THROUGH 4:00 TOMORROW AFTERNOON, LIGHTNING, GUSTY WIND, HEAVY RAINFALL, THE HEAVIEST OF THE RAIN NEAR AND SOUTH OF I-20. SO OXFORD BIRMINGHAM TUSCALOOSA EUTAW DOWN TO LIVINGSTON SOUTH OF THERE REALLY HEALTHY RAIN FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A LONG, LONG TIME AROUND MONTGOMERY AND AUBURN AND CLANTON FROM BIRMINGHAM NORTHWARD, IT DROPS OFF PRETTY SHARPLY. THERE MAY BE A FEW PLACES UP TOWARD CULLMAN COUNTY AND WINSTON COUNTY, AND BLOUNT COUNTY THAT MAYBE ONLY GET A 10TH TO A QUARTER OF AN INCH, WHILE OTHERS GET CLOSER TO A HALF INCH. HERE’S THE SITUATION. YOU GOT ALL THE WARM, HUMID AIR AHEAD OF THIS COLD FRONT. AS THE FRONT SWEEPS PAST US ON WEDNESDAY, COLDER AIR MOVES IN. MOUNTAIN SNOW STARTS TO SET IN NORTHEAST OF US. THEY MAY EVEN GET SOME FLURRIES OR MIGHT EVEN COAT THE GROUND UP IN PARTS OF THE SMOKIES AND TOWARD ROAN MOUNTAIN, AND THEN UP INTO WEST VIRGINIA. A FEW COMMUNITIES HERE MAY GET MORE THAN A FEW INCHES OF SNOWFALL, POSSIBLY MORE THAN SIX INCHES OF SNOW IN SOME OF THE HIGHEST ELEVATIONS. NONE OF THAT’S GETTING THIS FAR SOUTH, BUT THE COLDER AIR WILL GET HERE. SO TOMORROW, AN IMPACT DAY, THE HIGH 69 DEGREES HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS IN THE MORNING. STILL HANGING AROUND THROUGH LUNCHTIME. THE IMPACT WEATHER SETTLES DOWN IN THE AFTERNOON AND WE JUST HAVE SOME LINGERING SHOWERS AFTER THAT COLDER AIR. LOOK AT THAT. SOME FROST POSSIBLE EARLY FRIDAY MORNING AND SATURDAY MORNING. DAYTIME HIGHS ARE ONLY IN THE 50S. NEXT WEEK WE START TO WARM