A Bunch Of Sun & Not A Lot Of Clouds At Midday

WEATHER CHECK AT 11:00 AM
While temperatures are expected to be well above normal today, and for the rest of the week, I’ll take the current temperatures at this point. Now come this time tomorrow and Thursday, I’ll trade them for an early November day in a second. Skies are mostly sunny with only a very few clouds filtering out some of the sun from reaching the surface and temperatures are in the upper 70s to the mid-80s. Birmingham was at 82 degrees, while the warm spot was Uniontown at 85 degrees. A few locations throughout the area are tied as the cool spots at 79 degrees.

WEATHER FOR THE REST OF YOUR DAY
While nearly all of Central Alabama is expected to remain dry and getting back up into the “hot” category, there is a very small chance of isolated showers or storms in the northwestern parts of the area (mainly the northern half of Lamar County, all of Marion County, and the northwestern half of Winston County). Now the chance of rain is not an absolute zero for the rest of Central Alabama, but it is right at 10% or less for any one spot. Highs will be up in the mid to the upper 80s, but I wouldn’t be surprised if a few locations top out at or just above 90 degrees as the ridge takes hold over the area. Any clouds that form throughout the daytime will decrease in the evening hours, leaving us with clear skies by the 10:00 pm news. Lows will bottom out in the mid to the upper 60s.

THE TROPICS
Tropical Storm Leslie continues to meander around over the Central Atlantic Ocean and will be no threat to land as she’ll begin to move to the north then eventually out to the east. She may briefly strengthen to a hurricane but will quickly weaken back to a tropical storm by the end of the week.

The only other area of concern is an area of disorganized showers and storms over the southern Caribbean Sea. This disturbance has the potential for gradual development through this week and the weekend as it drifts northward. At this point, the NHC only gives it a 20% chance of forming into a depression/storm within the next 5 days. This is still considered a pretty active period of the hurricane season, historically, so we’ll have to watch this disturbance to see what happens.

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ON THIS DAY IN WEATHER HISTORY
1989 – Flooding due to thunderstorm rains in the southeastern U.S. on the last day of September and the first day of October caused the Etowah River to rise seven feet above flood stage at Canton GA. Thunderstorms produced up to ten inches of rain in northeastern Georgia, with six inches reported at Athens GA in 24 hours. One man was killed, and another man was injured, when sucked by floodwaters into drainage lines.

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