Hot Afternoons; Very Few Showers
TYPICAL JULY WEATHER: An upper ridge is keeping it mostly dry across Alabama this afternoon…
Any showers through the evening hours will be very isolated; temperatures are mostly in the low 90s.
TOMORROW THROUGH THE WEEKEND: The ridge holds, and our weather will stay mostly hot and dry with mostly sunny, hazy days and fair nights. Understand a few showers and storms are very possible each afternoon during the peak of the daytime heating process, but they will remain widely separated. The chance of any one spot getting wet will remain in the 10-20 percent range daily.
The weather stays hot; highs will be in the 92-95 degree range tomorrow and Friday, and mid 90s are likely over the weekend. It will certainly feel like July in Alabama.
NEXT WEEK: Another pattern change. The heat ridge shifts to the west, and the 12Z run of the GFS is advertising an upper low near Memphis by mid-week. This will mean lower heat levels, and higher rain chances by Tuesday and Wednesday, with highs back in the 80s both days. See the Weather Xtreme video for maps, graphics, and more details.
AT THE BEACH: Mostly sunny days, fair nights along the Central Gulf Coast from Panama City Beach west to Gulf Shores through the weekend, with the usual risk of a passing storm from time to time, but those storms will be widely scattered. Highs on the immediate coast will be in the mid to upper 80s, with low to mid 90s inland. Sea water temperatures are mostly in the low to mid 80s.
TROPICS: The Atlantic basin remains very quiet… over in the western Pacific, Typhoon Chan-hom will be approaching the China coast as the weekend begins.
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