Calm Weather For A While
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SUN AND CLOUDS: Visible satellite images show a hodgepodge of cloud cover across the great state of Alabama this afternoon. Some communities are enjoying a good supply of sunshine, but for a few places across North-Central Alabama the clouds have been hanging tough all day. Radar shows a few widely scattered showers over the Tennessee Valley of extreme North Alabama, but the rest of the state is dry.
TOMORROW: Not much change; a weak upper trough will still be overhead, so a few widely scattered afternoon and evening showers and storms are possible, but much of the state will be dry with a mix of sun and clouds and a high in the low 80s.
WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY: Our weather will be generally dry and warm, with partly sunny days and highs in the mid 80s. There will actually be enough moisture for a few isolated showers each afternoon, but the chance of any one spot getting wet is only in the 10 percent range, not really enough to mention in the forecast for now.
WARM WEEKEND: Pretty much the same story for the weekend. Partly to mostly sunny Saturday and Sunday with a high in the mid 80s; the risk of a shower for any one given location will remain pretty tiny thanks to an upper ridge overhead. Nice, quiet weather for mid-May in Alabama.
AT THE BEACH: A few scattered showers are possible on the Central Gulf Coast tomorrow, but the weather looks great Wednesday through the weekend with sunny days, fair nights, and highs in the low 80s. Couldn’t ask for better weather for this weekend’s Hangout Music Festival in Gulf Shores. The sea water temperature this afternoon at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab was 78 degrees.
NEXT WEEK AND BEYOND: Things looks quiet early next week, and quite frankly we don’t see any major storminess or severe weather threat here for the rest of May. See the Weather Xtreme video for details.
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I had a great time today visiting with the second graders at Center Point Elementary School…. as you know they lost their building to a tornado on January 23… they are meeting for now in the old Erwin Elementary location just down the street. Be sure and look for them on the Pepsi KIDCAM today at 5:00 on ABC 33/40 News… the next Weather Xtreme video will be posted early tomorrow by 7:00 a.m…..
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