Boy, it felt good today just to roll the windows down in the car, turn on the Phillies and Blue Jays on the radio and just enjoy summer. We are such an air conditioned society now, that we often miss the opportunity to just kick back and feel the warmth, hear the sounds and take in the smells of a glorious Alabama day. The smell of freshly cut grass, or the barbecue joint. Reminded me of being a kid so long ago.
It is a beautiful summer day across Alabama. Temperatures are hot, rising into the middle 90s at this hour. Highs will top out between 94-97 for the most part across Central Alabama.
Skies are partly cloudy with just puffy cumulus clouds out there.
The radar is clear across much of Alabama. There are some storms along the seabreeze front in Mobile County. There are some developing showers just north of Florence in Northwest Alabama. This activity may develop a little further and move down into Northwest Alabama as the afternoon wears on. There are more numerous, but still small and rather widely spaced storms over eastern Tennessee. Some of these storms could clip the extreme northeastern part of Jackson County in Northeast Alabama.
Probably the best chance for any development over Alabama over the next couple of hours will be in an area from north of Florence to Dectaur to Fort Payne. Movement of any storms that do form with be southerly.
Preparing the new forecast package right now. Looks like a boundary may slip through here tomorrow night, triggering a few storms in advance of it. I guess they could be strong, but the models aren’t very bullish on rain chances.
In the tropics, a tropical wave over the Northwest Caribbean could develop into a depression when it gets over the southern Gulf on Sunday. The GFS is not bullish on developing a tropical system here, but some of the other models still develop a strong tropical storm or weak hurricane and move it toward the West Coast of Florida early in the week. It should not affect the Alabama or Northwest Florida coast.
But it bears watching for folks from Cedar Key down to Naples. A Hurricane Hunter plane is scheduled to investigate the disturbance tomorrow.
