Dry Through The Weekend

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A CALM WEATHER PATTERN: Another pleasant morning; our Skywatcher at Black Creek, just northeast of Gadsden, reports 58 degrees, while many spots are down in the low to mid 60s over the northern half of Alabama. The sky is clear at daybreak, and today will be another mostly sunny day with a high in the 88-91 degree range this afternoon, very close to where we should be for early September in Alabama.

OUR WEEKEND: We will leave the forecast dry for tomorrow and Sunday with ample sunshine both days; highs will be pretty close to 90. Dewpoints will creep up a bit with higher humidity levels, especially by Sunday. Showers and storms will be confined to the far southern part of our state, and even there they should be pretty widely scattered.

NEXT WEEK: With a slow rise in low level moisture, I guess we should mention the risk of isolated showers, but the week still looks pretty dry. And, we stay warm with highs in the 88 to 92 degree range most of the week as the primary jet stream across North America remains well to the north. It is just a very benign weather pattern for Alabama, and quite frankly, for much of the continental U.S.

FOOTBALL WEATHER: Clear for the high school games across North/Central Alabama tonight; temperatures in the mid 80s at kickoff, falling into the 70s by the final whistle.

Tomorrow, Auburn will host Arkansas State for a 6:30 p.m. kickoff at Jordan-Hare Stadium. The sky will be mostly clear; 86 degrees at kickoff, falling into the upper 70s by the fourth quarter. UAB will travel to Baton Rouge to take on LSU; the game kicks off at 6:00 p.m. CT. Just a slight risk of a shower or storm during the first half, otherwise mostly fair. About 88 degrees at kickoff; 80 by the final whistle.

Jacksonville State will host Jacksonville University (yes, that is confusing) tomorrow at Burgess-Snow Stadium at 6pm CT… the sky will be mostly fair. About 87 degrees at kickoff; upper 70s by the final whistle.

TROPICS: Gabrielle fizzled out last night near the Dominican Republic. A disturbance over the Bay of Campeche (the far Southwest Gulf of Mexico) has a chance of becoming a tropical depression, but it will push west into Mexico later today and really won’t have much time to develop. Other waves over the Atlantic basin are weak and disorganized. The African wave train looks active, however, and will be watched closely as the waves emerge off the coast and into the Atlantic.

We are very close to setting a record for the latest arrival of our first hurricane in the Atlantic…. that record was set in 2002 when Gustav developed on September 11. And, the last major hurricane that struck the U.S. was Hurricane Wilma in 2005… no hurricanes at all this year so far. It has been relatively quiet in the tropics for a long, long time.

GULF COAST WEATHER: About 6 to 8 hours of sunshine each day through the weekend with a few scattered showers and storms possible. Highs on the immediate coast will be in the upper 80s, with low 90s just a mile or two inland. The sea water temperature yesterday afternoon at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab reached 89 degrees.

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Category: Alabama's Weather