Wednesday (High 80, Low 57): Mostly sunny. Warm and breezy.
Halloween (High 80, Low 60): Partly to mostly sunny and breezy. Widely scattered showers are possible, mainly at night.
Friday (High 74, Low 62): Partly to mostly sunny, breezy, and turning cooler. Isolated showers are still possible, mainly in the morning.
Saturday (High 79, Low 57): Mostly sunny.
Sunday (High 80, Low 58): Mostly sunny.
Monday (High 81, Low 57): Sunny.
Election Day (High 81, Low 58): Sunny with hazardous social tensions reaching one of their plateaus.
Our High was 77, and the morning Low was 57. It was technically 57.2, I mention for the anal-retentive.
Which I suppose sometimes I can be. Details details.
Ah . . . nice . . . the Stormy cat just spilled grape juice on about half a dozen books I had stacked up. Never underestimate the power of a stir-crazy, ditzy feline to knock a cup over in the process of taking a flying leap through a living room.
The mess is mostly up, so let's see if this forecast can work out anyway . . . the remainder of the mess is drying between pages of these books, which will never be the same. Thank goodness one was hardcover, well actually two, and I carelessly threw some salespapers on top of some of them. So they weren't as ruined as they could have been. This cat is now beckoning for my affection. She ain't gettin' it. She gets the cold shoulder for the rest of the night. Ya' wanna get on my bad side, mess with my books.
Tomorrow looks a lot like today, mostly sunny skies, High of about 80 or so, Low of about 57. And it'll be breezy at times, with winds from the South/Southeast.
And Halloween just looks plain creepy, especially at night, ghouls and goblins likely. Houses on fire, they're blowing up cars, creatures on the street, and razor blades in candy bars . . . with a nod of respect to the Insane Clown Posse.
But seriously it looks like a mix of sun and clouds, High near 80, Low near 60. And it'll be another breezy day. Will include a 30% chance of rain, but that's mainly after dark. I think most trick-or-treaters will stay dry, but if you're up around the Shoals or into Central Tennessee, might want to check the radar before heading out. Or I guess you could just wear a hood and look spookier anyway.
And I think there's enough evidence of moisture along this slow-moving front to justify rain chances lasting into Friday, the Day of the Dead. I'm not gonna' put zombies in the forecast, but the people who know, know. Usually I'm against the paranoid conspiracy theories on here, but hey, this is the most wonderful time of the year. You might find yourself travelling through another dimension if you stay up too late Thursday night into Friday . . . and who knows what lurks therein . . .
The chance of rain Friday looks very low though, about 20%, which means isolated showers. Temperatures will be dropping, the High on Friday only making it up to the lower 70's, maybe mid-70's for a few of us. The Low temperature in the lower 60's overnight.
Saturday looks dry again with a High near 80, Low in the upper 50's. If none of the rest of this discussion creeps you out, that should give you some deja vu.
Similar weather for Sunday. (Every day is exactly the same . . . with a nod to Trent Reznor and the Nine Inch Nails . . . slaps self for singing on the job.)
And really no significant change in the weather Monday or Tuesday. Tuesday of course is the election, and so I feel obligated to include in the forecast discussion that we'll have a lot of pissed-off people that may prove more frightening than any of the banshees, vampires, or werewolves prowling around the streets of London (or Cullman) the next few nights. So enjoy All Hallows Eve while you can.
I think most folks in Alabama and Tennessee will be pleased with the outcome of this one, but still, getting from point A to point B can be a hell of a ride sometimes. I remember at one point during the virus outbreak, this guy with scraggly hair came into a store ranting and raving about communists. I was in line. I hollered along with him for a little bit and tried to express sympathy even though I couldn't make out half of what he was saying. And then . . . I checked out in a hurry. It's better for everyone if I don't go into detail about my political opinions on here. The only thing I'll say is that it'd be nice if so many of the offices up for election locally had more than one option and a write-in slot. I was going to research these people, but when they are unopposed . . . boy, that sure does save some time on research. And I will say that I don't think my vote or anyone else's will matter one bit in this presidential election. (I was only hoping to matter one way or the other in the local stuff.) The electoral college has the final say. We all know how they're going to vote. Agreeing with them adds nothing. Disagreeing with them subtracts nothing. The only reason to vote in this thing is to make a statement, if only to oneself. But the popular vote really doesn't mean anything, as far as who wins. Since we're still doing votes the way they did when they had to be delivered on horseback. I do have a morbid curiosity as to how many people will write in somebody interesting. But that probably won't happen. So I'm not even looking for entertainment value in this one. I'll always wonder what kind of president someone like Neil Tyson would have made. But I guess somebody like him is smart enough not to run. He knows it'd turn the rest of his hair white faster than if he became a ghostbuster this time of year.
The tropics are quiet for now, but we could see a tropical depression develop from a low pressure system in the Caribbean as we get toward this weekend. Its track would probably be North/Northeast, but it's just something to keep an eye on. Hurricane season lasts through November.
And November tends to be a secondary severe weather season for North Alabama and Southern Middle Tennessee. So we'll have to watch any storm systems for about the next month for that potential, especially considering how warm we've been this year.
The National Weather Service in Nashville is holding Weather 101 classes again. Oddly enough they have a class on severe storms on Election Day. Which will be a beautiful day, sunshine, with a High of 80 or so. But they have a variety of subjects they give classes on.
I thought about instead of posting severe weather safety stuff every year, maybe I'll just start plugging the SKYWARN classes more that the NWS offices hold every Spring and Fall. Those classes are free, and sometimes I wonder if the people who don't care enough to take one really care much if a tornado is coming anyway.
If we get any rain, it should be Friday night into Thursday morning. We're in a bit of a drought again. Best chance is Northwest Alabama up into Tennessee.
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Footnote Wednesday evening October 30th - A lot of my ranting about the electoral college should be taken with a grain of salt. For accurate information, see here. It turns out that Alabama is one of the states that does have a law binding the electors to vote according to the popular vote. I went looking into it again . . .
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