Some Rain Sunday, Very Cold Pattern Next Week

Friday (High 50, Low 29): Mostly sunny. Seasonably cold and breezy.

Saturday (High 45, Low 25): Sunny. Seasonably cold.

Sunday (High 56, Low 31): Rainy. Cold.

Monday (High 39, Low 32): Mostly cloudy.

Tuesday (High 35, Low 24): Mostly sunny.

Wednesday (High 36, Low 20): Mostly sunny.

Thursday (High 38, Low 17): Mostly sunny. 

It was a sunny day in the Tennessee Valley with light, variable winds. The High in Cullman was 50 after a morning Low of 25. 

We have high pressure in place for the moment keeping us cold and dry. 

Tomorrow looks like another sunny day, breeze will pick up again, High near 50, Low near 30. 

Saturday is looking dry, sunny skies, High in mid-40's, Low in mid-20's. Winds calmed down. 

We actually have a clipper system tomorrow, but it looks like it will produce little to no rain, just a slight increase in clouds/moisture, which is why our Low tonight is near 30 instead of well down in the 20's like this morning's.

Sunday we'll have another system approaching from out West. It will bring a risk for severe thunderstorms to Missississippi, Louisiana, East Texas, Southeastern Arkansas, and places like Memphis. That risk does barely clip extreme West Alabama. 

And this same system may bring a winter storm to our neighbors in the Midwest and Ohio River Valley. Many of those people are already under a Winter Storm Watch for the threat of greater than four inches of snow from this system on Sunday. 

Locally around Cullman and such places, we are only expecting rain. It's not going to be warm or unstable enough to support storms, and it's not going to be cold enough to support accumulating wintry precipitation. So we'll see a rainy day with a High in the upper 50's and a Low in the lower 30's. 

Then on Monday it looks like the snow moves up into West Virginia and Pennsylvania. 

Around here, the rain should taper off through Sunday night, but we'll stay mostly cloudy Monday, the High only making it up to about 40 after a Low near 30 or so. 

Then the seriously cold air hits us starting Tuesday. We'll see mostly sunny skies, a High in the mid-30's and a Low only in the lower 20's. 

Then basically the same for Wednesday except if anything a colder morning, Low near 20 or even dipping into the teens. 

Then Thursday looks mostly sunny again with a High in the upper 30's, Low in about the 15-20 bracket.

In this very cold pattern, we will have to watch next weekend for any winter weather potential. There have been hints of that in the forecast modelling at times, and if you want to start preparing for a potential winter storm while the weather is still nicer, there is certainly nothing wrong with that. The main thing to remember around here during any period where we've got several days where most of the day features temperatures below freezing, whether we have to deal with snow/ice or not, is the P's to protect - People, Pets, Plants, and Pipes.

Rainfall totals will average about an inch for this forecast period. 

In other matters of public safety, the FBI has issued a statement about the Bourbon Street terrorist attack. What a way to ring in a new year. Anybody else got a feeling it's going to be full of headaches? But seriously, I do appreciate these people working behind the scenes to help keep the rest of us as safe as possible. Law and order doesn't just happen on its own. 

If anybody wants to buy me a coffee, I'll sip on it.