It is a new day, but the forecast is not changing as a tropical, unstable air mass remains in place across Alabama and the Deep South this week. We are seeing scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms on the radar today and for the next couple of days.
As of late this morning, all the rain and storms are over the northern portions of the state, but through the afternoon and evening hours, the radar will get a lot more active across Central Alabama. Again, rainfall will be heavy at times, and expect lots of lightning if you find yourself under one of these storms.
The air remains unstable across Alabama this week, and we are forecasting scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms on a daily basis each day through Friday.
Numerous showers and storms across Alabama today, and highs are holding in the upper 70s to low and mid 80s. As always in summer, rain distribution will be very uneven, feast or famine, meaning some locations could get too much, while other spots get nothing.
This week, all of the northern third of Alabama is suffering from at least moderate drought, with severe drought now covering large portions of the area.
Showers and storms will begin to increase in coverage through the rest of today as the air becomes more unstable, highs today are in the low to mid 90s.
Sun, clouds, hot temperatures, and high humidity, it looks and feels like mid-July in Alabama. Scattered showers and storms have been ongoing through the morning hours, but through the afternoon and evening hours, expect the coverage of rain and storms to increase.
Routine summer weather is in the forecast with partly sunny, hot, humid days with the usual risk of scattered showers and storms on a daily basis generally during the afternoon and evening hours.
Scattered showers and storms remain in the forecast today, with the higher coverage over southern portions of the state. It is not as hot this afternoon with highs only in the upper 80s with some low 90s.
The main threat will come from strong straight line winds and hail; there is an almost zero tornado threat. Most of the showers and stronger storms will come this afternoon and early tonight. While we wait on the storms, it is another blistering hot day with upper 90s and low 100s covering Alabama.
A check of the radar late this morning shows a few ongoing showers across Central and East Alabama, but nothing too heavy or widespread. Throughout the rest of today, expect very warm and muggy conditions with highs in the upper 80s and lower 90s.
Warm and muggy weather for Alabama through Thursday with partly sunny days and random, scattered, mostly afternoon and evening showers and storms each day.
Some afternoon storms are possible as a cold front approaches, and some of these storms could be strong producing damaging wind gusts and hail. It is not going to storm everywhere, as these will be mainly over the southern third of the state, along and south of Montgomery.
Late this morning, we are watching a cluster of showers ands storms over northern portions of Alabama. These aren’t moving much, but we are likely to see additional showers and storms develop across the Alabama landscape through the afternoon hours.
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