Summer-Like Weather Through Mid-Week
DRY, VERY WARM: An upper ridge will build across the Deep South over the next 36 hours, setting up a dry and summer-like pattern through Thursday for Alabama. We expect mostly sunny days, fair nights, and afternoon highs well up in the 80s, in the 85-89 degree range. A few spots could touch 90 degrees tomorrow and Thursday.
RAIN RETURNS LATE THIS WEEK: Still looks like our next chance of rain and thunderstorms will come Friday afternoon and Friday night ahead of the next storm system to the west. We project the main 12 hour window for showers and storms to be from about 3:00 p.m. Friday through 3:00 a.m. Saturday. There will be enough shear and instability for a few strong storms, but the severe weather parameters don’t look too overwhelming at this point, and SPC has not defined any severe weather risk for “Day 4” in their convective outlook package early this morning. Rain amounts around 1/2 inch look likely, with potential for up to one inch in a few spots.
THE ALABAMA WEEKEND: Rain will end very early Saturday morning; the sky becomes partly sunny during the day Saturday with a high between 77 and 80 degrees. Sunday will feature sunshine in full supply with a high in the low 80s.
NEXT WEEK: For now at least the first half of the week looks warm and dry with highs in the 80s; some showers are possible toward the end of the week, but that is pretty “iffy” at this point. Overall it looks like a pretty quiet week… see the Weather Xtreme video for maps, graphics, and more details.
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