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A nice dry weekend ahead for Central Alabama, but could we have enough moisture in the area to squeeze out a few showers on Black Friday? Details are in this morning’s Weather Xtreme Video.
Other than some thin high clouds filtering some of the sun across parts of the area, much of Central Alabama is bathed in total sunshine as we have reached the midday hour.
Some numbers of interest that occurred throughout the day on Thursday and into the early morning hours today.
Most of Central Alabama remains under a blanket of clouds, but we can see clearing starting to occur in the southwestern parts of the area.
The Freeze Warning has been expanded to include all of Central Alabama and extended through a good bit of Friday morning.
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NWS Birmingham has extended the Freeze Warning starting on Thursday at 12:00 AM CST until 12:00 PM CST for Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Chilton, Dallas, Fayette, Greene, Hale, Jefferson, Lamar, Lowndes, Marengo, Marion, Perry, Pickens, Shelby, Sumter, Tuscaloosa, Walker, and Winston counties.
We have cloudy skies and cold temperatures across Central Alabama at this point on your Wednesday. To go along with that, we have some patchy to scattered showers out there mainly over the southern and southeastern parts of the area.
As of 7:35 pm CST, rain has ended for all of North Alabama and for much of Central Alabama. Some light to moderate showers remains falling over the east and southeastern parts of the area.
All of the NWS Mobile counties that were in the Tornado Watch (Mobile, Escambia, Baldwin, and Covington counties) have been removed from the watch.
While a brief tornado or an isolated strong wind gust or two remain possible in southern Alabama and into the western Florida panhandle, the overall severe weather threat is starting to diminish somewhat over those areas.
The latest updated Day 1 Severe Weather Outlook graphic is out from the Storm Prediction Center and it continues to show a threat of severe storms for much of the southern parts of Alabama, while much of the rest of the state will see improving conditions for the next several hours.
A supercell with a strong indication of rotation is moving northeast and will soon move onshore near Mexico Beach and Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida… locations that were heavily damaged by Hurricane Michael.
With another developing low-pressure center that will likely be making a path northeast from east Texas to the Ohio River Valley, there will be the potential for some wintry precipitation mainly along the north and northeastern portions of the low Wednesday night into the midday hours on Thursday.
