Storms To Start The Day
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WET START: The unsettled weather pattern continues across Alabama with showers and storms in progress at daybreak in many locations. The storms are not severe by classic definition, but they are producing heavy rain in spots and a good bit of lightning as they move east.
Showers and storms should die down later this morning, but additional thunderstorm development is possible this afternoon and tonight as a moist, unstable airmass remains over Alabama. The afternoon and evening storms should be rather scattered in nature; the coverage will be really determined by how the morning storms impact the airmass. We don’t expect to get past the mid 80s today.
TOMORROW/WEDNESDAY: We will continue to mention scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms, with an upper trough to the west and moist air in place. Impossible to give you start/stop times of the rain for any specific point, but just be ready for a shower or storm at just about any hour. Also, SPC maintains the standard “slight risk” of severe weather for North and West Alabama tomorrow, as the storms will be capable of producing some hail along with strong, gusty winds. Highs will remain in the mid 80s, although a few communities on Wednesday might hold in the 70s all day.
THURSDAY/FRIDAY: Showers and storms should become more widely spaced on these days as the air aloft becomes warmer, and the becomes a little more stable. The sky will be partly sunny, and highs will be in the mid to upper 80s. Chance of any one spot seeing an afternoon shower or storm will be about one in three.
THE WEEKEND AHEAD: Looks pretty decent. The upper trough axis will be west of the state, and the sky should be partly to mostly sunny Saturday and Sunday with only widely scattered afternoon storms. Highs rise into the upper 80s. This drier pattern should hold into early next week.
AT THE BEACH: Mostly sunny today along the coast from Panama City to Gulf Shores. Scattered thunderstorms return tomorrow through Thursday; the highest coverage of showers will be on Wednesday, most likely. Then, for Friday and the weekend, about 7 to 9 hours of sunshine each day with only widely scattered showers or storms. Highs will be in the 80s on the immediate coast, and the sea water temperature this morning at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab is 84 degrees.
TROPICS: All is quiet across the Atlantic basin, and tropical storm formation is not expected this week.
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