As of 12:15 pm on your Iron Bowl Saturday, clouds have moved back in over Central Alabama and up into North Alabama blocking out much of the sunshine. At this point, there is no shower activity showing up on radar and it should stay that way through the remainder of the day.
While today’s weather will be really nice, showers and storms will invade Central Alabama on Sunday. Very cold air moves in for the start of the workweek as highs will start off in the 40s with lows dipping into the 20s area wide.
Skies across Central Alabama are mostly clear to sunny as it is a very nice and cool last Tuesday for the month of November. Temperatures as of the 1:00 pm roundup were in the lower 60s to the lower 70s across the area.
Your Saturday will feature plenty of sun and mild temperatures across the area, but Sunday will become cloudy and a small chance of rain moves in late.
Hurricane Iota’s landfall location is approximately 15 miles (25 km) south of where Category 4 Hurricane Eta made landfall earlier this month on November 3rd.
Maximum sustained winds are near 155 mph with higher gusts. Iota is an extremely dangerous category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. Rapid weakening is forecast after Iota moves inland, and it is expected to dissipate over Central America on Wednesday.
It looks like Iota may be a catastrophic category five hurricane when it makes landfall tonight on the northeastern coast of Nicaragua, near the Honduran border. Devastating storm surge, winds, and flooding will affect both countries.
Hurricane Iota strengthened rapidly overnight and now has top winds of 125 mph and a central pressure of 925 millibars, making it a powerful category four hurricane. Tropical storm force winds are likely already occurring on the northeastern coast of Nicaragua, where the center will make landfall late this evening. Here is the opening paragraph […]
Iota is
now a category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. Rapid strengthening is expected during the next 24 hours, and Iota is forecast to be an extremely dangerous category 4 hurricane when it approaches Central America tonight.
Rapid strengthening is expected during the next 24 hours, and Iota is forecast to be an extremely dangerous category 4 hurricane when it approaches Central America.
While Iota continues to move toward Central America currently as a category 2 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 100 MPH, we are just a few days away from the potential of a new tropical system developing over the Caribbean Sea.
Iota will become a major hurricane tomorrow before making landfall tomorrow night in northeastern Nicaragua.
