It’s Midday & It’s No Different… Hot & Dry

We have mostly clear to partly cloudy skies across Central Alabama as of 11:30 am. We do have a cold front to our north that will work its way into the northern parts of the state by this evening and will be located very close to Birmingham by sunrise on Friday. We do have a very slight risk of a few isolated showers and thunderstorms over the north and eastern parts of the area, while the rest of Central Alabama will remain dry. Temperatures are currently in the upper 80s to the lower 90s across the area, with those rising into the mid to upper 90s for the afternoon highs. Any shower activity will diminish quickly after sunset, leaving us with fair weather overnight. Lows will be in the upper 60s tot he lower 70s.

The cold front will continue to move southward pulling in drier but not cooler air on Friday. Rain chances are slim to none with slim walking out of the door. We’ll have a good bit of sun and just a few clouds with afternoon highs ranging throughout the 90s across the area. High school football games will have no rain or thunderstorms to worry about, but those kickoff temperatures will be in the mid-80s to the lower 90s at 6:00 pm, and eventually dropping into the mid-70s to the lower 80s by the final whistle. Overnight lows will be in the upper 60s tot he lower 70s.

We only have two systems out in the Atlantic that we need to keep our eyes on, but the general consensus is that none of these will help bring any rain to Central Alabama. Karen is struggling to hold on to its tropical storm status and is expected to fizzle out and become a remnant low within a few days. Lorenzo is a category 4 monster hurricane with winds topping out at 130 MPH. The good news is that Lorenzo will be a problem only to fish as it will stay out over the open waters of the Atlantic. The rest of the Atlantic Basin is quiet for now.

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