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Temperatures are running several degrees cooler across Alabama today… looks we will actually have some reporting stations that fail to reach 90, especially over on the eastern side of the state. Dewpoints are in the 50s in many areas, and the chance of showers and storms continues to look pretty slim this evening and tonight.
Not much change tomorrow; most of Alabama will be dry. However, the NAM goes a bit nuts on Friday with a big increase in the chance of rain in response to energy diving southward down the back side of the Atlantic coast upper trough. I am not totally convinced this will happen, and for now we won’t mention anything more than widely scattered showers and storms. You don’t forecast rain in the middle of a drought, you know…
WEEKEND PEEK: The GFS looks pretty dry around here over the weekend; highs will be in the low to mid 90s with showers and storms being few and far between.
NEXT WEEK: The GFS continues to show a fairly robust cold front for late June dropping southward into the Tennessee Valley region by Wednesday of next week. We will begin to increase the chance of rain Tuesday afternoon, and by Wednesday most of the state should have a good chance of showers and storms thanks to the front and the supporting upper trough. Sure sounds good to me.
LONG RANGE: Still looks like the most intense heat around the nation will be focused on the Southwest U.S. during the latter half of June. Don’t get me wrong; we will have lots of hot weather here, but we don’t expect the heat to run away from us (upper 90s and triple digits), and that is a good thing. And, still no sign of the tropics coming alive despite the very warm SSTs now showing up in the Gulf of Mexico.
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