Another Warm Day

* * * No Weather Xtreme Video today due to an early commitment to Ride for Kids at Barber Motorsports Park * * *

Clear skies this morning will allow morning lows generally in the lower 60s to climb nicely into the 80s. So look for another warm day across Central Alabama with the afternoon highs climbing into the middle and upper 80s. A cold front approaching from the northwest was producing a narrow line of showers this morning in the Ohio River Valley. Due to a lack of moisture across the Southeast US, showers and storms will be limited as the cold front slides into Northwest Alabama this evening. Clouds and isolated showers will accompany the front as it moves southeastward across the state in response to the digging trough at 500 millibars. With limited moisture, rainfall amounts are expected to be light running less than a quarter of an inch for those places that see rain. Monday will also feature a breezy northwesterly flow ushering cooler air into Central Alabama. Look for morning lows to dip into the 50s across the area for Tuesday and Wednesday mornings.

The upper trough will move by Tuesday and Wednesday as a surface high slides eastward across the Ohio River Valley into the Mid Atlantic states. This will keep us dry through the week ahead with afternoon highs running generally in the lower 80s. As the high moves off into the Atlantic at the end of the week, I expect to see moisture return from the east and southeast with the potential for clouds and showers to return by next weekend.

SPC does not have any specific areas outlined for severe weather for the next five days as the overall weather pattern remains fairly tranquil.

And the tropics remain relatively inactive as we begin to emerge from the heart of hurricane season. One area of disturbed weather was being watched in the vicinity of the Cape Verde Islands, however, conditions were not conducive for significant development of this system which will bring some rain to the Cape Verde Islands as it remains well out in the Atlantic.

Beach goers will enjoy a warm day today with highs in the upper 80s. There will be scattered showers Monday but then the weather should turn dry along the Gulf Coast until moisture comes back at the end of the week with isolated showers once again. Highs each day will be in the middle 80s with water temperature running in the lower 80s.

Voodoo country looks somewhat active for us with a fairly potent system shaping up for the eastern half of the country as we enter October. Yesterday it looked like such a system would affect us around the first of October, but now the GFS holds it off a day or two. That system is followed by the development of a substantial ridge across the eastern half of the country signaling some warm days.

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Thanks for keeping up with the weather via the Blog. James Spann will have the next edition of the Weather Xtreme Video on Monday morning. Enjoy the day and Godspeed.

-Brian-

Category: Alabama's Weather