Mainly Dry Weather Today and Wednesday

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Not much change to the overall forecast thinking with a somewhat nondescript weather pattern for us to deal with for much of the week. But things do show some signs of changing once again.

Look for mostly dry weather across North and Central Alabama today and Wednesday with the trough axis east of the area and the nose of the western ridge pushing into the Lower Mississippi River Valley. This should bring mostly warm and sunny weather to Central Alabama today and Wednesday with highs in the 90 to 94 range. Thursday moisture begins to pick up a tad so isolated showers again enter the picture.

With moisture up, scattered showers become a possibility for our weekend with rain chances in the 50/50 range. While the pattern sees little overall change, the GFS and the ECMWF do have general agreement on yet another deep trough developing into early next week, in the Monday to Tuesday time frame based on the latest models. This is becoming a familiar pattern for us for the summer of 2014 with an unusually deep trough in the East and a substantial ridge over the West.

Weather looks good at the beaches of Northwest Florida and Alabama. While isolated showers remain possible each day, there should also be a good supply of sunshine each day with highs along the coast in the 87 to 89 range. Water temperatures are running mainly in the lower 80s. Rain chances are likely to ramp up a bit later in the week and into the weekend.

Bertha increased to a hurricane yesterday afternoon, but has since weakened slightly so that she is now back to a tropical storm. Track forecast continues to be for a gentle curve into the North Atlantic as the storm moves northeastward today and Wednesday with no threat to land, just to shipping.

Voodoo country keeps this anomalous pattern of a fairly deep trough in the East well into week two, so the trend for us to continue with temperatures at or below seasonal values seems to be a good one.

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-Brian-

Category: Alabama's Weather