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Experts say stormy pattern to end by weekend
By Stephanie Taylor
Staff Writer
May 08, 2003
TUSCALOOSA | The stormy weather system that has lingered over Alabama
since Sunday should begin to move north Friday morning, experts said
Wednesday.
Most of West Alabama has been fortunate as of Wednesday afternoon,
escaping the more than 100 tornadoes that have sprung up over the
lower midwestern and southeastern states this week.
"We're in a V. An upside-down V, more like a tee-pee shape really.
There's a front to our west and a front to our east, and it's just
kind of stalled out," said Don Hartley, spokesman for the Tuscaloosa
County Emergency Management Agency. "It's pulling up moisture from the
Gulf of Mexico and combined with the upper atmospheric instability,
it's creating the storms we're experiencing."
Wednesday was the sixth day in a row that rain has fallen on
Tuscaloosa County. Between Friday and Wednesday, the National Weather
Service has measured 2.78 inches of rainfall in Tuscaloosa.
There is no particular weather phenomenon, such as El Nino, that has
caused the unusual weather.
"We shouldn't be having this muggy weather this early in May," said
Charles Wax, a professor in the Geosciences department at Mississippi
State University.
"It's just a pattern that has stuck with us ó the cold front is stuck.
It's not moving, and we're staying in this warm, moist unstable air
[to the east] of it."
The weather west of the front has been cooler and dryer, he said,
conditions the area should experience after the front moves.
During a typical spring storm, Hartley said, a cold front moves
through the area, causes rain storms, and moves out of the area.
That type of storm is expected to come through Sunday and last until
Tuesday.
"It will be a normal spring storm, what we're used to here. It won't
be like what's going on now, where it continually rains and stops with
no front moving through to push it out," he said.
Both Wax and Hartley said that cooler temperatures are expected Friday
and Saturday, with partly cloudy skies.
Approximately 2,300 Alabama Power Co. customers in West/sAlabama
reported outages Wednesday.
Company spokesman Michael Sznajderman said that by 4 p.m., 1,000 of
those customers had had their service restored.
He expected the remaining 1,300 customers to have power by the end of
the night.