
Midday Nowcast: Sun, Clouds, and Two Tropical Storms
Dry and warm weather highlights the forecast right on through the weekend as an upper-ridge builds in over the region. Highs will range from the low to upper 80s most days.
Dry and warm weather highlights the forecast right on through the weekend as an upper-ridge builds in over the region. Highs will range from the low to upper 80s most days.
DRY IS THE WORD: Today will be the 12th consecutive day with no measurable rain at Birmingham, and there is no sign of any rain for the next seven days. Today will feature a sunny sky with a high in the 80s. Sunny warm days, fair pleasant nights will continue through the weekend with highs in the 86-91 degree range tomorrow through Sunday.
DRY DAYS: All 67 Alabama counties are rain-free at mid-afternoon. A few isolated showers or storms could pop up over the far southern counties this evening, but most places will stay dry. Clouds have moved into parts of East and South Alabama, where temperature are in the mid to upper 70s… other communities are in the 80s with a mix of sun and clouds.
Most of North/Central Alabama is seeing sunshine today, while clouds and showers are more common across the southern sections of the state.
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SHOWERS REMAIN SCARCE: A few widely scattered showers or storms could develop over South Alabama later today and early tonight, but the chance of any given spot there seeing rain is 25 percent or less. Otherwise, today will be dry with a partly to mostly sunny along with a high in the 85-91 degree range.
WARM SEPTEMBER AFTERNOON: Temperatures are generally in the 86-91 degree range across Alabama this afternoon… the exception is Mobile where they have soared to 94 degrees at mid-afternoon. Most of the showers on radar area across the southeast counties of the state, in areas generally east and south of Montgomery. A few small, isolated showers are forming elsewhere, but most places are dry with a partly sunny sky.
Highs today and tomorrow are in the mid to upper 80 with more sun than clouds for many locations.
A FEW SHOWERS: We can use some rain around here; Birmingham has gone nine days without measurable rain. Tuscaloosa got a good downpour yesterday, but many places were dry. We will mention the chance of a few spotty showers and storms through tomorrow, but nothing really widespread. Odds of any one place getting wet will range from 10 percent across the Tennessee Valley of North Alabama, to 60 percent near the Gulf Coast.