Little Change to the Summertime Weather

No Weather Xtreme Video today due to Internet connection issues. I’m actually in Manistique, Michigan, this morning, and the cabins where we are staying had their Internet router taken out by lightning. I’m on the air card, but there is only the Edge network available.

The temperatures this morning where I am are in the upper 50s and lower 60s with an overcast sky. These temperatures sure feel good, but I had to travel a good 1,000 miles north of Birmingham to get them!

For Central Alabama and the Southeast US, the main story remains the upper ridge and surface high pressure which will continue to be the principle feature in the overall weather pattern for the next week. This means highs generally reaching the middle 90s most days along with chances for thunderstorms each day. Variations in highs will depend on where and when showers form and how much cloud cover a particular spot will get from day to day.

A strong short wave traveling across the Great Lakes area will help to produce a general troughiness over the eastern third of the country on Monday. This should lead to better chances for showers. But as that short wave travels into New England, the upper ridge will build back into the Southeast US just as strongly as it has been. By Friday and Saturday the 594 height contour returns so we remain hot and humid into next weekend. This also means more of a return to isolated thunderstorms as we get to mid and late week.

The cloud mass in the eastern Caribbean continues to be watched but it has begun to interact with the land areas of Hispaniola, so little if any development to that system is likely to occur.

The greatest threat for any organized severe weather continued to be along the northern periphery of the upper ridge with the traveling short waves traversing the US-Canadian border.

Further afield, there continues to be a trend on the GFS with a long wave trough over the eastern half of the country with the ridge positioned over the Rockies. This would certainly provide some relief to the heat for about the eastern third of the country.

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-Brian-

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