Very Moist Air In Place

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Look for a pretty decent coverage of showers and thunderstorms across Alabama during the afternoon and evening hours today and tomorrow as a very moist airmass remains parked over the state, and a weak surface front stalls just north of here.

As always in the summer, some folks will be disappointed and others overjoyed with the amount of rain they get in these kind of situations, but we figure average rain amounts of 1 to 2 inches are likely during the next several days thanks to the tropical downpours. And, heat levels will drop; most places won’t reach 90 today and tomorrow due to the clouds and showers.

THE WEEKEND: The front to the north dissipates late tomorrow, leaving our state in a moist environment Saturday and Sunday. We will forecast scattered showers and storms both days; they might be a tad more numerous late Sunday and Sunday night with another surface boundary approaching from the north.

NEXT WEEK: The GFS is very persistent with the idea of the front pushing all the way through Alabama Monday. In fact, the 00Z run has dry air over North Alabama Monday, and all of the state bu Tuesday and Wednesday. Lets look at one more run (the 12Z run), and if that is still there we will go to a much drier forecast for much of next week.

BERTHA: Still looks like Bertha will recurve in the open Atlantic east of Bermuda; it is no threat to the U.S. mainland, and the rest of the Atlantic basin is rather quiet.

TO COOL YOU OFF: Check our this report from our Skywatcher in Girdwood, Alaska, Todd Foisy: “High 57.7/Low 47.1/Current 57.3/Rain Trace. The year without a summer continues. The cool, cloudy weather persists, and the nearby mountains still have the highest amount of snowpack left since records began in 1983.”

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