Better Shower Chances By Friday
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HOT JULY AFTERNOON: Temperatures are generally in the mid 90s at 3:00 p.m…. about where we expected them to be. Birmingham, Tuscaloosa, and Anniston all report 95 with a partly to mostly sunny sky. Lower dewpoints have mixed down to the surface, and heat index values aren’t too bad; the Birmingham heat index at 3:00 was 99.
The radar remains quiet; only a handful of showers are on radar at mid-afternoon, mostly to the south of here. There is one big storm near Gulf Shores and Orange Beach, that produced this shelf cloud… via @ac_clark
The weather won’t change very much tomorrow with a good supply of sunshine, only isolated showers, and a high in the mid 90s.
FRIDAY: No doubt this will be the day with the best coverage of showers and storms. Can’t promise rain for everybody, but most communities stand a good chance of getting wet a time or two. Rain amounts will vary greatly from neighborhood to neighborhood… the heavier storms could drop 1/2 to 1 inch of rain, but other places might miss out. Just the nature of storms on a summer day in Alabama.
THE WEEKEND: We have good consistency in the idea of drier air working into North Alabama Saturday; looks like the best chance of showers and storms will be over the southern half of the state Saturday, and then all of Alabama will be in dry air Sunday. Highs will remain in the 90s, but the humidity should be lower by Sunday.
NEXT WEEK AND BEYOND: The 12Z GFS confirms the idea of generally dry weather Monday and Tuesday, followed by an increase in rain opportunities on Wednesday as the ridge weakens again and an upper trough forms over the eastern third of the nation. And, the good news is that we see no sign of any triple digit heat here for at least the next 15 days. See the Weather Xtreme video for the details and graphics.
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