Spotty Showers Starting To Form At Midday

At 11:20 am on this hot and humid July 1st, skies are mostly clear at this point across Central Alabama, but we are seeing a few isolated showers forming on a boundary that was left over from an MCS that died off during the pre-dawn hours in the extreme northern portions of the area. We’ll need to watch and see how much development will occur with this boundary as it will continue to move southward through the area. At this point, rain chances for any one spot are in the 25-35% range from south to north. Where it doesn’t rain today, skies will be mostly clear to partly cloudy.

Temperatures are currently in the mid-80s to the lower 90s across the area… Birmingham was at 90 degrees, trailing behind Uniontown at 92 degrees as the warm spot. A few locations were tied at 86 degrees as the cool spots. Afternoon highs will get up into the lower to mid-90s.

Any showers or storms that form this afternoon will quickly diminish around or just after sunset and we’ll be left with partly cloudy skies across the area. Overnight lows will be in the lower to mid-70s.

More of the same on Tuesday as we’ll continue to have hot and humid conditions with the standard risk of isolated to scattered afternoon showers and thunderstorms. Afternoon highs will be in the low to mid-90s with heat index values topping out in the 100-105 degree range.

Taking a quick peek at Thursday, also known as Independence Day… Central Alabama remains hot and humid with the standard chance of scattered afternoon showers and thunderstorms. Highs will top out in the lower to mid-90s across the area with heat index values in the 100-107 degree range. Rain chances will diminish somewhat for the evening hours for any fireworks, but there will still be a very small chance of a passing shower or storm. Temperatures will be throughout the 80s across the area at 8:00 pm and eventually dropping into the lower to mid-70s for the overnight lows.

THE TROPICS: The Atlantic Basin remains very quiet at this point and no new tropical cyclones are expected to develop within the next five days.

ON THIS DAY IN WEATHER HISTORY: 1989 – Showers and thunderstorms associated with the low-pressure system which was once Tropical Storm Allison continued to drench parts of Mississippi, Louisiana and eastern Texas. Late night thunderstorms produced 12.58 inches of rain at Biloxi, MS, in six hours, and 10.73 inches at Gulfport MS. Flooding in Mississippi over the first six days of the month caused 55 million dollars damage.

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