A Breath Of Fresh Air For The Weekend

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COLD FRONT ARRIVES TONIGHT: We warm into the low 90s today with a partly sunny sky, and we will still mention some risk of a shower or storm by mid to late afternoon ahead of that front, but widespread rain is not expected, and many communities won’t see a drop as the front encounters dry air over Alabama. The best chance of showers will be over the northwest corner of the state this afternoon.

COOL CHANGE: A very pleasant airmass will drop into the state over the holiday weekend. Sunny comfortable days, clear cool nights, and low humidity is the story. The high tomorrow and Sunday will be only in the low 80s, and we drop into the 50s early Sunday and Monday morning. The colder valleys of North Alabama have a chance of dropping into the upper 40s. A warming trend will begin Monday with a high not too far from 90.

FOOTBALL WEATHER: For tonight’s high school games, it is possible that a few stadiums may get hit by a shower or a thunderstorm, but most will not. Temperatures will fall from the mid 80s at kickoff into the 70s by the fourth quarter.

Both Alabama and Auburn will play home games tomorrow night at 7:00. Very nice weather, clear with temperatures about 78-80 at kick off and in the 60s by the final whistle. Jacksonville State plays at Ole Miss tomorrow. It will be in the lower 80s for most of the game and clear. In Birmingham, Miles College will be in the Labor Day Classic at Legion Field Sunday evening. Temperatures around 78 at kick off and falling off to the upper 60s. The sky will be clear with no chance of rain.

EARL MOVING NORTHEAST: Hurricane Earl is a category two hurricane this morning with sustained winds of 105 mph, and is moving to the north/northeast just off the mid-Atlantic coast. Lots of wind and rain for the Outer Banks overnight, but the center remained well offshore and other than some coastal flooding and downed trees and power lines, seems like our friends up there fared pretty well. Earl will pass just east of Cape Cod tonight as a category one storm before making landfall tomorrow morning in Nova Scotia as a tropical storm.

FIONA: The tropical storm coming up behind Earl will pass right over Bermuda late tonight, and then move out into the open North Atlantic. It should remain below hurricane strength (winds now are 50 mph), and this is no threat to the U.S.

GASTON: Just a remnant low now in the central Atlantic, the GFS continues the idea that the system will redevelop next week, with a recurve off the Atlantic coast. Watch the Weather Xtreme video and you will see the 00Z run has it just east of Cape Cod on September 15, almost in a position identical to Earl. But, that is all voodoo and it remains to be seen if Gaston can get it’s act together again, and know exactly where it will go.

HERMINE? The wave behind Gaston looks fairly well organized in the far eastern Atlantic, and has a chance to become a tropical storm at some point down the road. And, yet another wave shows up over the African continent that will come into the Atlantic late in the weekend as the wave train continues to crank out the hits.

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