Rainless Streak is Hanging By a Thread: Your Afternoon Weather Update for Central Alabama

It has been raining lightly at the Birmingham Airport off and on since 11:40 a.m., but the precipitation has not been heavy enough to produce the 0.01 inches to call it officially measurable. So the consecutive days streak without rain is still intact for now.

That streak stands at 27 days, making it is the 11th longest on record.

Some heavier showers were moving toward the Airport but they may slide more over downtown. Those showers did drop 0.02 of an inch at my location in Vestavia.

The clouds and showers have resulted in cooler temperatures with most stations still in the 70s. I did find a couple of 69F in the Montgomery area. There are some upper 70s in places where it has not rained. It was 73F at the Birmingham Airport, down a couple of degrees from the morning high so far of 75F.

The showers are associated with a surge of moisture that has its origins in the tropical Atlantic off South Florida and the Bahamas. It is being shunted northward around the periphery of the sprawling surface high centered off the coast of New Jersey.

There is also a tiny bit of instability over Alabama thanks to the cold air aloft associated with the upper level low pressure trough over the Southeast.

That easterly wedge flow into Alabama will relax later today and high pressure aloft will begin to replace the low pressure trough. This will give us warm and dry conditions tomorrow through Wednesday. Another approaching trough will trigger a line of showers that will move through the state late Thursday night and Friday morning. High pressure will slide in behind it, setting the stage for a cool and dry weekend.

Category: Alabama's Weather