Whew! James Spann Has A Few Reminders About Summer Weather In Alabama

By James Spann

It’s that time of the year when I need to remind everyone how the weather works around here in summer. From now through mid-September, this is what we deal with in Alabama, generally speaking:

The weather rarely changes much from June through August. If you say “hot and humid with scattered afternoon storms,” then you will be correct 95 percent of the time.

It rains just about every day in summer. The combination of a moist air mass and the intense daytime heating process usually leads to scattered afternoon and evening showers and thunderstorms. These are rather random in nature, don’t move very quickly and are very much hit and miss — mostly miss. About the only way we get a really widespread rain event around here in the summer is the result of a tropical system moving into the central Gulf Coast.Nobody, and I mean nobody, knows where the storms will fire until we actually see them on radar by early afternoon. We might have a general idea where the best chance of thunderstorm initiation will be, but it is one of the great challenges of summer weather forecasting in Alabama. Most of these storms form between 2 and 10 p.m.

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