Quiet Weather Pattern For Alabama Over The Weekend; Watching Eta
MILD NOVEMBER DAY: Temperatures are mostly in the mid 70s across Alabama, but a few spots on the western side of the state have managed to touch 80 degrees. The average high for Birmingham on November 6 is 69. Tonight will be mostly fair with a low between 55 and 60 degrees.
Not much change over the weekend. Partly sunny, mild days and fair nights. A few isolated showers are possible tomorrow over the southern half of the state but most places will stay dry. Highs will be in the mid to upper 70s for most communities.
NEXT WEEK: Monday and Tuesday will be mostly dry, but there will some risk of showers over the latter half of the week. The amount and coverage of rain will depend to some degree on how Tropical Storm Eta behaves in the Gulf of Mexico; for the moment it looks like the most widespread rain associated with the system will be south and east of Alabama. See the Weather Xtreme video for maps, graphics, and more details.
We should note no sign of freezing temperatures for Alabama over the next ten days, and the latest CPC outlook for the period November 14-20 suggests temperatures will be above average here, and over the eastern half of the nation.
TROPICS: Eta is a tropical depression in the western Caribbean; it is expected to reach tropical storm strength again tonight as it moves to the northeast. The latest forecast track from NHC puts the system over Cuba late tomorrow night, near the Florida Keys Monday, and into the Southeast Gulf of Mexico Monday night.
We are getting better model agreement this afternoon; most suggest Eta will begin to turn northeast again, moving over North Florida by the middle of next week, which would keep Alabama on the drier west side of the system. But, it remains to be seen exactly what, if any, impact Eta will have on Alabama or the Central Gulf Coast. We will have better clarity over the weekend as the system becomes better organized, and we get upper air data from hurricane hunters.
The rest of the Atlantic basin is quiet; hurricane season ends on November 30.
ON THIS DATE IN 1977: The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above the Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia, failed in the early morning hours of November 6, 1977. Thirty-nine people died in the resulting flood, which inundated part of the campus including a trailer park.
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