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Drier Air Overspreading North Alabama; 60s in Spots Tonight

| July 9, 2017 @ 1:27 pm

Skies are mostly clear over the northern half of Alabama with only few scattered clouds near the cold front, which is currently from Calera to Sylacauga to Roanoke. A few showers have developed over Coosa, Tallapoosa, Autauga, Elmore, Macon and Lee Counties. South of I-85, thunderstorms will build. A few of them could produce strong wind gusts.

Drier air has filtered in to North Alabama, where dewpoints have fallen to the middle and upper 60s.

Highs will range between 89-92F with all the strong summer sunshine bearing down on the area and fewer clouds and showers.

Monday morning lows according to the GFS

Parts of North and Central Alabama will be in the lower and middle 60s tomorrow morning. There might even be a couple of 50s in lucky spots.

The persistent trough of the past few days will be lifting out of the eastern United States, leaving a flat pattern across much of the country. With a surface high over the southern United States, moisture from the Gulf of Mexico will be shut off. A pronounced sea breeze front will bring showers and storms inland into South Alabama, but Central and North Alabama will remain high and dry. It will be hot, with highs in the lower 90s.

A strong summertime ridge will start to build across the Deep South, setting the stage for more hot conditions. The 594 dm high is the dreaded death ridge. It appears that its reign across the South will be short. It will set up where it should be, over the southwestern United States by next weekend. A trough will develop downstream over the eastern United States. This will be important in a couple of respects.

Daily doses of afternoon and evening storms will return by Wednesday, isolated at first and then becoming scattered by Friday as the trough ejects a frontal system our way. It looks like they will be most numerous on Sunday as the front tries to pass through the area.

Will be hot, in the lower and middle 90s. Lows will be in the 70s by Tuesday and stay that way.

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