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Looks like today will be the nicest day of the week weather wise. Each model run is slowing down this upper low and I am holding the rain back until Wednesday instead of Tuesday night. Upper lows like this have very cold air aloft, so storms with hail are likely. Sometimes in the Spring we will see cold air funnels with these systems. That might happen this time and if it does it would probably be Thursday or Friday.

One thing to remember with upper lows...The timing is difficult..The forecast is usually pretty easy ..clouds and rain. Some storms with hail..but just WHEN the low will pass over and when it will move out is the question! Right now I think it will be gone by Saturday..

Guys out at the NWS sent out some interesting climate info today (It is fun to look that stuff up..wish I had more time to do it.) The Winter we had was fairly warm..As we all know. No measurable snowfall either. If we go without snowfall until Jan. 12 2006 then we will break the record for the longest period without snowfall here in Huntsville. The old record is 1070 days starting back in March of 1920!

Some other info: January and February combined were the 9th warmest on record. It has also been a dry start to the year with only 10.17 inches of rain from Jan-March. Normal was 17 inches!

Climate info is the NUMBER 1 requested item from viewers here in the office. The NWS runs a climate archive here: http://www.srh.noaa.gov/hun/climate/hsvcli.html
If you need data for a court case you will need a certified copy form the Climate Data Center in Asheville, NC. (That will cost you money, but not as much as having a Meteorologist testify!...I really dislike doing it;)

Dan sends at 5:42pm Mon 4 April 2005