Saturday Weather Xtreme — Mainly Dry Today; Showers Return Late Tonight

THIS WEEKEND: Much of your Saturday will actually be dry, but we’ll continue to have partly to mostly cloudy skies across Central Alabama. A shortwave will begin to move through the area late into the day and through the nighttime and overnight hours. Showers will become possible over the northern third of the state by midnight. Nothing too heavy and no thunder expected. Highs will be in the upper 40s to the lower 70s from northwest to southeast.

A surface low will have formed on the shortwave close by over Central Georgia on Sunday morning that will continue to keep showers possible across the area during the day. Eventually the shortwave moves farther away and rain chances will come to an end before sunset. Highs will be in the upper 40s to the upper 60s from northwest to southeast.

NEXT WEEK: Ridging starts to set up and will begin to build over the southeast on Monday, that will bring plenty of sunshine and warmer temperatures to much of Central Alabama. Highs will top out in the upper 50s to the mid 60s. The warming trend and sunny weather continues on Tuesday, as highs will reach the lower 60s to close to 70 across the area. Same story on Wednesday… Plenty of sunshine, with highs in the upper 60s to the lower 70s.

We continue on the eastern side of ridging that will continue to bring nice and warm weather to Central Alabama on Thursday. Highs will be in the upper 60s to the upper 70s. We’ll be even warmer on Friday, with highs in the lower 70s to the lower 80s underneath plenty of sunshine.

NEXT WEEKEND: Decent weather will continue on next Saturday, but a system will be building off to our west and will eventually move into Central Alabama and becoming stationary over the northern two-thirds of the area on Sunday. That will bring showers and maybe a couple of thunderstorms back into the forecast. For now, much of the instability will be over Mississippi and back to the west, so for now, severe weather doesn’t look likely at this point. But that is off in Voodoo Land as it is past our seven-day forecast window. We’ll keep our eye on it. Highs will be in the lower 70s to the lower 80s on Saturday, and in the upper 60s to the lower 80s on Sunday.

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