Dry Through The Weekend; Lower Heat Levels By Saturday
DRY SUMMER PATTERN: The chance of any one spot seeing a shower across Alabama is ten percent or less through the weekend, and when odds are that low we don’t mention it in the forecast. We expect mostly sunny days and fair nights through Sunday as the dry pattern continues, and Tropical Storm Debby stays well to the east.
Today should be the hottest day of the week with a high between 95 and 100 degrees for most places this afternoon. We expect mostly mid 90s tomorrow and Friday, but a pattern change will bring down a drier, continental airmass over the weekend. For Saturday and Sunday, highs over the northern half of the state will drop into the 88-92 degree range with lower humidity and cooler nights. Temperatures will be in the 60s early Sunday morning for a little tough of fall.
NEXT WEEK: Generally dry weather will continue Monday and Tuesday. We will mention the chance of widely scattered, mostly afternoon and evening showers and thunderstorms over the latter half of the week, but we still don’t expect any really widespread rain. Highs will be in the low to mid 90s through most of the week… See the video briefing for maps, graphics, and more details.
TROPICS: Tropical Storm Debby this morning is about 65 miles south/southeast of Charleston, and is drifting to the east at only 5 mph. Thankfully some drier air entered the circulation yesterday and has really reduced the rain coverage and intensity along the coast of the Carolinas. The system will drift back inland tomorrow, and it finally begins to accelerate to the northeast Friday. By the Sunday it will be over eastern Canada.
Elsewhere, showers and thunderstorms associated with a tropical wave located over the southwestern Caribbean Sea remain disorganized. The northern portion of this tropical wave could reach the southwestern Gulf of Mexico over the weekend, but any development should be slow to occur. NHC has dropped the chance of development to only 10 percent. The rest of the Atlantic basin is very quiet.
ON THIS DATE IN 1980: Hurricane Allen bottomed out at 899 millibars (26.55 inches of mercury) while moving through the Yucatan Channel in the southeastern part of the Gulf of Mexico. Allen was the second lowest pressure ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere up to that time. Allen’s winds at the time were sustained at 190 mph. It would move into South Texas on August 10, 1980 as a category three hurricane.
Look for the next video briefing here by 3:00 this afternoon… enjoy the day!
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