A few isolated showers will be possible to help cool portions of the area off this afternoon, but most everyone will stay dry and very hot. Rain chances pick up for the end of the weekend and for the start of the work week.
It’s been shuttered for decades, looking more like urban blight than a beacon of Birmingham’s civil rights legacy. But change is under way at the historic A.G. Gaston Motel, which will soon be a centerpiece of the steadily developing Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument.
NWS Huntsville has extended the Heat Advisory for Colbert, Cullman, Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, Morgan counties in North Alabama until 7 pm Friday evening.
For more than 60 years — through some of Birmingham’s most significant social and economic history — Green Acres Café has been a constant in the city’s downtown.
Mainly dry and very hot conditions to end off the work week and into the weekend, before a weak cold front brings back elevated rain chances and cooler temperatures for the start of next week.
Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors. Young children and pets should never be left unattended in vehicles under any circumstances.
Birmingham’s Carver Theatre is completing a major renovation to make the venue and museum viable for years to come.
The upper ridge in place over the region is intensifying causing our weather to trend hotter and causing sinking air which will limit our rain chances across the northern half of the state the rest of this week, and providing ample sunshine.
