On a midsummer morning at dawn, the eastern sky brightens with first light, and the sounds of night creatures begin to give way to the first chirping of birds and stirring of squirrels.
DRY DAYS: Showers will be very hard to find across Alabama through the weekend with partly to mostly sunny days and fair nights. There might be a few small, isolated showers around today and tomorrow, but the chance of any one spot getting wet is 10 percent or less.
The remnants of Gordon have dissipated, but there is a chance for redevelopment later this week as the system moves into a more favorable environment, while a separate tropical disturbance associated with the Central American Gyre may also develop in the coming days.
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RADAR CHECK: We actually have a few “illegal showers” (showers that weren’t forecast) over North/Central Alabama this afternoon that are dropping southward. Also a few spotty showers are over the southern quarter of the state (where they were forecast) as well.
When you think of birdwatching, you may think of older folks with binoculars, quietly observing nature in all its feathered glory. But Scot Duncan, Ph.D., the executive director of Alabama Audubon, is on a mission to change that image.
Some showers remain possible today and tomorrow, but these are confined to the southern half of the state. For the rest of the state, we are seeing more sunshine than clouds, with highs in the mid 80s this afternoon.
There’s a lot of good stuff going on at Botanic. Everywhere you point your eyes at this combo nursery, garden shop, home decor store and café-bar-restaurant in Opelika, there’s a visual feast waiting.
QUIET PATTERN: We will maintain the chance of a few showers over far South Alabama today and tomorrow, most of Alabama will be dry through the rest of the week with highs in the 80s and lows in the 60s.
It has been a record-setting day across parts of of the North Carolina Coast with massive, life-threatening flooding. Folks, sometimes you don’t need what seems like an truly organized system, or a named system. You just need the right ingredients to come together to cause a major event.
As election season ramps up, Megan Hays, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, said it is common to feel overwhelmed by the constant influx of political news, debates and campaign rhetoric.
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RADAR CHECK: We have a few spotty showers over West and Southwest Alabama this afternoon, otherwise we have a mix of sun and clouds with temperatures mostly in the 80s. Showers will fade this evening
At the Translational Research Injury Prevention (TRIP) Laboratory, a research participant opens the door of a Mercedes GLE 63S AMG and slides into the driver’s seat. She buckles her seatbelt, starts the car and then the virtual experience begins.
Our long time friend, mentor, and charter Weather Factory member, J.B. Elliott, passed away on May 11, 2015. Click HERE to read James' tribute.
