Warming Trend Ahead; Still Dry

ANOTHER COLD START: Here is a look at some temperatures across Alabama early this morning, just before sunrise…

Gadsden 25
Jasper 25
Chelsea 26
Pell City 28
Cullman 28
Talladega 29
Good Hope 30
Muscle Shoals 30
Decatur 31
Hueytown 31
Demopolis 31
Sylacauga 31
Tuscaloosa 32
Evergreen 33
Huntsville 35
Birmingham 37
Anniston 38
Montgomery 38
Dothan 45
Mobile 45

Today will be another sunny day with highs in the 60s over North Alabama, with low 70s for the southern counties of the state. Dry weather continues over the weekend with a warming trend; highs will be in the 70s tomorrow and Sunday with a good supply of sunshine both days.

NEXT WEEK: Still no rain through Wednesday with highs mostly in the 70s. Some spots could touch the 80 degree mark by mid-week as the warming trend continues. Global models suggest a risk of widely scattered showers by Thursday and Friday ahead of a surface front, but the chance of meaningful rain looks low. We continue to see signals of a good rain for the Deep South in the November 14-18 time frame… See the video briefing for maps, graphics, and more details.

DROUGHT MONITOR: The new drought monitor was released yesterday, and as expected conditions continue to deteriorate. Right now 99.57 percent of Alabama is in a drought. An “extreme drought” is defined for the Tennessee Valley, and also the southwest counties of the state.

FOOTBALL WEATHER: Expect a clear sky for the high school games across Alabama tonight with temperatures falling through the 50s.

Tomorrow, UAB hosts Florida Atlantic at Protective Stadium in downtown Birmingham (2:00p CT kickoff). The sky will be sunny with temperatures in the low 70s.

Auburn travels to Nashville to take on Vanderbilt (3:00p CT kickoff)… the sky will be clear with upper 60s at kickoff, dropping into the low 60s by the final whistle.

And, Alabama will host LSU tomorrow evening at Bryant-Denny Stadium (6:45p CT kickoff)… the sky will be clear with temperatures falling through the 60s. A perfect night for football in Tuscaloosa.

TROPICS: A large area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms over the western Caribbean Sea is associated with a broad area of low pressure (Invest 97L). Development, if any, of this system is expected to be slow to occur before it moves inland over Central America tonight or tomorrow. Regardless of development, this system is expected to bring heavy rains over portions of Central America through the weekend. This rainfall could produce flash flooding, along with mudslides in areas of higher terrain.

There rest of the Atlantic basin is quiet.

ON THIS DATE IN 1966: An early season snowfall, which started on the 2nd, whitened the ground from Alabama to Michigan. Mobile had their earliest snowflakes on record. Huntsville measured four inches.

ON THIS DATE IN 2001: Hurricane Michelle reached peak intensity on this day as a Category 4 storm. Michelle made landfall on November 4-5, between Playa Larga and Playa Giron, Cuba, as a Category 4 hurricane, the strongest to strike the country since 1952’s Hurricane Fox. The storm caused an estimated $2 billion US dollars in damage to Cuba.

No afternoon video briefing today; I will be live on ABC 33/40 at John Carroll High School for our last Friday Night Rivals game of the week… but I will post updated forecast notes here by 3:00. Enjoy the day!

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