In the Good ‘Ol Summertime…

It’s a beautiful, good ol’ summertime morning across Alabama. Skies are partly cloudy, with cumulus clouds seeming to favor the ridges. It actuality, the river valleys are just more free of clouds after morning fog and stratus lefts them a few degrees cooler that their surrounding areas.

Regional radars are quiet, with just some showers over the northern Gulf of Mexico. Storms will be isolated across the area today it appears.

Temperatures are in the 80s area wide, heading for highs in the lower 90s in the I-20 Corridor, with readings near 90F in the Tennessee Valley. Upper 80s may be favored in the more heavily forested parts of the state from Marion and Winston Counties over to DeKalb County. Place like Double Springs, Cullman, Albertville, and Fort Payne may not get out of the 80s. We will see.

It’s quite muggy however, with dew point readings ranging from 70-75F.

So find your favorite swimmin’ hole or hammock under a shade tree and enjoy the last little bit of Dog Days. They end Wednesday. For many of our kids, they end Tuesday, as they head back to school. The heat won’t go away though, with highs remaining in the lower 90s for the foreseeable future. Hot, but not especially so.

Alabama will remain on the western edge of the powerful Bermuda High out over the Atlantic. Precipitable water values will remain very high, and passing disturbances to the north will help trigger a few rounds of showers and storms each day, especially Monday and Tuesday. So we will enhance those rain chances for early in the week.

It appears that we will return to a more typical scattered afternoon and evening showers and storms routine by midweek.

In the tropics, we are still monitoring three disturbances in the main Development Region between the islands and Africa. None of them appear to want to step up and become the next Fred just yet. The middle one flared up its convection last night but that has since diminished. None of the glbal models are very excited about any of them. We will continue to monitor.

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