Scattered Storms Continue

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Some spots in Central Alabama got a good dousing including your’s truly. My rain gauge recorded 89 hundredths of an inch, my first rain in just over two weeks. Very welcome indeed! Looks like the scattered shower situation will continue today. As the upper ridge builds in just slightly stronger on Monday and Tuesday, we will probably see a few less showers for a couple of days. However, the upper ridge migrates further west on Wednesday and into the latter half of the week. This migration puts Alabama into more of a northwesterly flow pattern with less influence of the ridge. This brings rain chances back into the scattered category from Wednesday and Thursday into next weekend.

Again, though, not everyone will get wet but those that get under a shower can expect a half to one inch of rain. Temperature wise I don’t see much change in our temperatures with lows dancing around 70 and highs in the middle 90s through Wednesday and dropping back a tad to the lower 90s for the end of the week and into the weekend thanks to the northwesterly flow.

One thing to be watching for in the northwesterly flow pattern is the development of thunderstorm clusters – mesoscale convective complexes or MCCs – to the northwest that hold together and bring a large area of rain into the Southeast. There is not a lot of skill in forecasting the actual location of these events, but certainly something for us to keep an eye open for.

Tropics are quiet this morning. Some cloudiness exists across the tropics, however, there is no sign of any organized activity.

Peeking a bit further ahead shows very little change in the overall pattern with the ridge just to our west and slight troughiness over the East Coast. This pretty much keeps a summertimer weather pattern with daily scattered showers.

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Enjoying the Gulf Coast at a wonderful beach house just off the beach. James Spann should be back with the next Weather Xtreme Video first thing Monday morning. I hope you have a great day. Godspeed.

-Brian-

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