Quiet Pattern Continues With Only Isolated Showers

SHOWERS REMAIN VERY ISOLATED: A very quiet, calm summer weather pattern will persist across Alabama today and through the rest of the week and the weekend. Limited moisture means only a handful of showers or storms around during the afternoon and evening hours; odds of any one spot getting wet today are about 15 percent, then dropping to 5/10 percent tomorrow and Friday. Otherwise, look for partly to mostly sunny days and fair nights. Highs will be in the 88-92 degree range tomorrow, followed by low 90s tomorrow and Friday. Heat levels tick up a bit for the weekend with highs in the low to mid 90s, and afternoon showers will remain very isolated.

NEXT WEEK: Moisture levels will rise a bit, and we will see an increase in the number of “scattered, mostly afternoon and evening showers and thunderstorms” through the week. Probability of any one community seeing rain on most days will be 30/40 percent, and highs will be mostly in the low 90s, right at seasonal averages for mid-August in Alabama. See the Weather Xtreme video for maps, graphics, and more details.

TROPICS: Meteorologists won’t have to worry about pronouncing “Isaias” anymore since the system is now post-tropical over eastern Canada. At least five people were killed by the system yesterday over the eastern U.S., and it produced at least 8 tornadoes. Today there one small disturbance southwest of Bermuda, but it is not expected to develop due to dry air surrounding the system and increasing upper winds. The rest of the Atlantic basin is very quiet; tropical storm formation it not expected through the weekend.

The peak of the Atlantic season is now through the end of September, the actual climatological peak comes on September 10.

The next storm names are Josephine, Kyle, Laura, Marco, Nana, Omar, Paulette, Rene, Sally, Teddy, Vicky, and Wilfred.

ON THIS DATE IN 1980: Allen intensified into a Category 5 hurricane while south of Puerto Rico. This made Allen the earliest Category 5 hurricane in the Atlantic on record, but was later surpassed by Hurricane Emily which reached that intensity on July 16, 2005. it was the fifth most intense Atlantic Hurricane on record in terms of barometric pressure, behind Hurricane Rita, the 1935 Labor Day hurricane, Hurricane Gilbert, and Hurricane Wilma. It was one of the few hurricanes to reach Category 5 status on the Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale on three separate occasions, and spent more time as a Category 5 than all but two other Atlantic hurricanes.

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