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CALM SUMMER PATTERN: A quiet weather pattern continues across the Deep South through the holiday weekend. Partly sunny days, fair nights, and only isolated afternoon showers. The chance of any one community seeing a shower each afternoon is only around 10 percent, and afternoon highs will be in the 90-95 degree range.
DRY DAY: Alabama is rain-free this afternoon with a partly sunny sky. Temperatures are generally in the 88-92 degree range… tonight will be fair with a low between 66 and 72 degrees.
DRY PATTERN: An unusually dry airmass has dropped into the Deep South this morning. No rain across Alabama at daybreak, and we expect no rain through tonight. It is very hard to find a July day around here without at least a few afternoon and evening showers and thunderstorms.
ON THE MAP: A rare July front is moving through Central Alabama this afternoon. We note a few isolated showers ahead of the front around the I-85 corridor at midday; North Alabama is rain-free in drier air moving in from the north. A few isolated storms are also over the southeast corner of the state.
DRIER DAYS: A drier airmass is slipping into Alabama early this morning. Nothing on radar at daybreak, and any showers this afternoon will be very isolated, and confined to the southern third of the state.
RADAR CHECK: We have scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms over the southern 2/3 of Alabama this afternoon… stronger storms are producing gusty winds, heavy rain, and lots of lightning. Showers and storms will end tonight as a surface front pushes southward.
RADAR CHECK: Showers are isolated across Alabama early this morning, but a number of showers and thunderstorms will form across the state later today and tonight ahead of a surface front. SPC maintains a “marginal risk” of severe storms for most of the state today; heavier storms will be capable of producing strong wind gusts, heavy rain, lots of lightning, and possibly some small hail.
RADAR CHECK: Most of the rain across Alabama at mid-afternoon is over the far southern part of the state; showers are widely spaced over the northern counties. Temperatures are mostly in the mid to upper 80s; Mobile is in the upper 70s thanks to clouds and rain.
AM SUN/PM STORMS: Alabama’s weather won’t change through Wednesday. Partly to mostly sunny mornings, followed by scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms during the afternoon and evening hours. The chance of any one spot getting wet daily will be in the 65-75 percent range, and most of the showers will come from around 1:00 until 10:00 p.m.
RADAR CHECK: A few scattered showers and thunderstorms are over Alabama this afternoon… they are most numerous over the Tennessee Valley. Away from storms the sky is partly to mostly sunny with temperatures mostly in the upper 80s and low 90s.
MUGGY SUMMER DAYS: We have some pretty classic summer weather for Alabama and the Deep South through the weekend. Partly sunny days, highs in the 88-92 degree range, and the usual risk of “scattered, mostly afternoon and evening showers and thunderstorms”.
RADAR CHECK: Showers are almost impossible to find across Alabama this afternoon; the rain overnight last night and early this morning helped to stabilize the atmosphere. Heat levels are also down; many communities are only in the mid to upper 80s with a partly to mostly sunny sky.
RADAR CHECK: A disturbance moving westward on the south side of the upper high to the north of Alabama brought widespread rain and storms to the state overnight. Rain is still falling over much of North Alabama at daybreak; some southeast counties are still seeing some rain as well.
RADAR CHECK: Most of Alabama is simply hot and dry this afternoon, but isolated showers and storms have formed. Heavier storms for the next few hours will be capable of producing lots of lightning and strong gusty winds; they will fade tonight after sunset.
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