It has been a wet and stormy morning across Alabama, and the atmosphere has been really worked over this morning. Now we are watching to see if the atmosphere can recover ahead of the cold front that will move through later today. If the sun can come out and warm the surface up some, instability will build and we could see additional storms this afternoon and early tonight. These storms will be much more scattered in nature, but they will be capable of producing hail and strong winds. The SPC maintains much of the state in the level 2 of 5 “slight risk”.
As of the midday hours, most location we still relatively cloudy and cool with temperatures in the 50s and 60s. We will continue to monitor trends the next few hours. The front will move through, bringing an end to the rain and storms.
WEEKEND WEATHER: Behind the front, a very nice weekend is ahead with sunny mild days and fair cool nights. Highs will be in the mid to upper 60s Saturday, followed by low 70s on Sunday.
NEXT WEEK: Monday will be dry and mild with a high in the 70s… then another dynamic weather system will bring another chance of strong to severe thunderstorms to the state by late Tuesday, Tuesday night, and early Wednesday morning. Still too early to know the magnitude of this event; once we get past the storms today we can be much more specific. Thursday and Friday are looking dry for now.
BEACH FORECAST CENTER: Get the latest weather and rip current forecasts for the beaches from Fort Morgan to Panama City on our Beach Forecast Center page. There, you can select the forecast of the region that you are interested in visiting.
WORLD TEMPERATURE EXTREMES: Over the last 24 hours, the highest observation outside the U.S. was 122.9F at Kedougou, Senegal. The lowest observation was -65.9F at Dome A, Antarctica.
CONTIGUOUS TEMPERATURE EXTREMES: Over the last 24 hours, the highest observation was 101F at Falcon Lake, TX. The lowest observation was -16F at Peter Sinks, UT.
