Rain Returns To Alabama Tomorrow
MARVELOUS MARCH AFTERNOON: With a sunny sky, temperatures are in the 60s across Alabama this afternoon as our warm-up continues. Clouds will arrive tonight, however, ahead of an approaching upper trough.
Rain becomes widespread across Alabama tomorrow, with a rumble of thunder possible. A few strong storms are possible near the Gulf Coast… SPC maintains a low end “marginal risk” (level 1/5) of severe thunderstorms for Mobile, Baldwin, and southern Escambia counties. Heavier storms there could produce strong wind gusts.
Showers will linger into the day Wednesday as the upper trough moves slowly through the region; highs will remain in the 60s tomorrow and Wednesday. Then, Thursday promises to be a beautiful day with ample sunshine and a high in the 70s.
FRIDAY AND THE WEEKEND: A cold front will bring showers and storms to the state Friday. A few strong storms are possible, but for now it doesn’t look like a severe weather setup. Then, we are forecasting a beautiful weekend with sunny pleasant days and fair cool nights. The high Saturday will be in the mid to upper 60s, followed by low 70s Sunday. Doesn’t get much better this time of the year.
NEXT WEEK: Monday will be dry and mild, but a weather system will bring another round of rain and storms to the state in the Tuesday/Wednesday time frame. Too early to know if severe storms will be an issue… See the Weather Xtreme video for maps, graphics, and more details.
ON THIS DATE IN 1993: Birmingham’s official low was 2 degrees; by far the coldest March temperature on record. It came just after the generational “Blizzard of 93”, which dropped over one foot of snow on the city. At one point over 400,000 people were without power.
ON THIS DATE IN 2008: An EF2 tornado moved through downtown Atlanta, shortly before 10 pm ET, damaging the Georgia Dome where the SEC men’s basketball tournament was underway (Alabama and Mississippi State were playing at the time). The tornado touched down just west of the Georgia World Congress Center, which was heavily damaged. The tornado passed just one hundred yards north of the Dome and turned east-southeast on a six-mile path, lifting near I-20 in DeKalb County.
But the real story was the miracle shot by Mykal Riley of Alabama that sent the game into overtime and kept thousands of fans inside the Georgia Dome. Had the game ended in regulation and had the game not gone into overtime, thousands of fans would have been outside the stadium when the tornado struck. Yet because fans stayed to watch the game in overtime, a tremendous catastrophe was averted.
ON THIS DATE IN 2019: A total of 15 tornadoes touched down across Alabama… most were EF0-EF1 strength. The strongest was an EF-2 that moved through Elmore County, near Holtville.
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