Staying Sunny and Cool, Some Cold Mornings

Friday (High 70, Low 37): Sunny. Cool.

Saturday (High 73, Low 41): Sunny. Cool.

Sunday (High 76, Low 42): Sunny. Cool.

Monday/Tuesday (Highs in lower 70's, Lows in mid-40's): Sunny.

Wednesday/Thursday (Highs ~80, Lows in lower 50's): Sunny.

Friday the 25th through Sunday the 27th: (Highs in lower 80's, Lows in lower-to-mid-50's): Mostly sunny.

We're under a Frost Advisory. 

It has been a sunny day in Cullman, breezy at times, with a High temperature of 64 and a morning Low of 32. Right at the freezing mark. 

High pressure is going to dominate our weather for the foreseeable future, and we'll have another chance at frost tomorrow morning (Friday morning) but then have temperatures moderate as we get into next week. By next weekend, Highs should be back to about 80 or so, Lows back into the lower 50's. No rain expected and not even many fair-weather clouds in the sky. One of the driest patterns we've had in a while. So this forecast is pretty simple. 

That tropical disturbance everyone has been watching should pass near the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico tomorrow, then Hispaniola and the Bahamas on Saturday. Air Force Hurricane Hunters are investigating this system, but chances for it to become a tropical cyclone have continued to dwindle. It will encounter strong upper-level winds by Sunday, and it is a gamble whether or not this thing survives enough beyond that to have a chance at becoming a tropical cyclone in the long-term, over the next week. The National Hurricane Center currently gives it a 30% chance, where earlier in the week, that chance was more like 50-60%. I don't think many people will complain if this one ends up fizzling out. We've had our fair share of tropical trouble for one season, maybe not right here where we are, but close enough, in neighboring states. 

There is another disorganized tropical disturbance coming out of the Caribbean Sea that will produce heavy rain across Central America and Southern Mexico through this weekend. Chances of it developing into a tropical cyclone are also low. 

We expect to stay dry as a bone for the next week or so around here. Any heavier rains should stay well out West or even up far in the Pacific Northwest. 

Since my immature sense of humor hasn't garnered any threats lately (and I did have that morbid curiosity as to whether I'd attract that kind of attention . . . lotsa peeps be hot-headed these days), I'll go ahead and include the best links I know for hurricane relief efforts. 

And I'll start with FEMA since they've had a rocky time of it lately. Here's their page on Hurricane Helene, and here's the one on Hurricane Milton. And here are their attempts at rumor control. 

Off-the-cuff conversations between some straight-talking, tough people let me know that Samaritan's Purse has offered some help from these hurricanes. And so far, I haven't heard of anyone harassing them for it. So that's always a bonus. Here is their page for Hurricane Helene and also the one for Hurricane Milton.  

And the Red Cross is taking donations up for both storms. 

If anybody knows better ways to help out that you'd like me to pass along in any future posts here, please feel free to leave me a comment or send an e-mail. 

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