Scattered Showers Developing

Scattered showers have developed late this morning over North Alabama along an outflow boundary from storms that fizzled over Tennessee and northern Georgia this morning.

They extend back into northeastern Mississippi.

The ones west of Red Bay in Franklin County are close to producing lightning and the ones over Franklin and Colbert Counties will follow suit soon.

They are moving southeastward in the upper level flow and will encounter increasingly unstable air into the afternoon hours. Moisture levels in their paths are a little more meager however, so they will have a little less fuel to work with than we might normally see on a summer afternoon.

And storms that do get going today will have a little more negative buoyancy associated with them than we have seen on past days, so isolated damaging downbursts are possible. Of course, there will be the requisite heavy rain and dangerous lightning, so take cover indoors if one nears your location this afternoon.

Temperatures are in the 80s now across Central Alabama and most spots should see lower 90s this afternoon before showers set in.

Additional storms are over western Tennessee back into southeastern Missouri and northeastern Arkansas ahead of a southeastward moving upper level disturbance that is located near Joplin MO this morning.

This and other disturbances will be riding southeastward in the flow set up between the eastern side of the high pressure ridge to our west and a developing trough that will build over the eastern states over the next couple of days sending a cold front our way.

Rain chances will be a little higher through tonight and again Monday as the disturbances and the front affect us. The front should be south of I-20 by Tuesday morning, taking most of the activity with it and setting the state for a run of nice dry weather into next weekend.

Category: Alabama's Weather