Generally Dry Weather Today
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ON THE MAPS: A drier airmass has moved into the northern half of Alabama today… showing up nicely on the PW (precipitable water) maps this morning. This should mean a partly to mostly sunny day with few, if any, showers this afternoon. Temperatures will rise to near 90 degrees in most neighborhoods.
Not much change tomorrow; just an outside risk of an afternoon shower. The sky will be partly sunny with a high in the low 90s.
FRIDAY AND THE WEEKEND: Moisture surges northward, and with an upper trough forming over the eastern third of the nation and a surface front slowly approaching from the north, these days will be wet at times. We are forecasting scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms each day with only a limited amount of sunshine. Temperatures will drop because of the clouds and showers… highs should be generally in the mid to upper 80s. It won’t rain all weekend, but it could rain at any time, and a strong storm is possible along the way.
NEXT WEEK: The GFS continues the idea of drier air working into North Alabama Sunday night, with dry conditions for Monday and Tuesday with lower humidity and cooler nights. But, of course, we all know frontal passages don’t happen that much in August, so we will watch model trends. Moisture should return by Wednesday.
GULF COAST WEATHER: Not much change in the overall pattern… we expect about 4 to 6 hours of sunshine each day through the weekend from Panama City west to Gulf Shores with scattered showers and storms. Any one spot stands about a 30 to 50 percent chance of seeing a passing storm each day, and highs remain mostly in the upper 80s. The sea water temperature early this morning at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab is 86 degrees.
TROPICS: Thunderstorms associated with former Tropical Depression 7 moved into Central America last night, and a system in the Central Atlantic has potential to become a tropical depression or storm in coming days, but that is a higher latitude disturbance that will recurve into the open Atlantic and is no threat to land.
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