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Sure love hearing the sound of raindrops on the roof at 5:30 in the morning… a parade of showers and storms continues across North Alabama; some of the storms are producing heavy rain and a good bit of lightning. And, the showers are lined up all the way back into Central Mississippi, so needless to say we will continue to highlight scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms statewide today. Like yesterday, some spots will see heavy rain, and we will have the potential for a few wet microbursts (very small areas of damaging straight line winds). All of the storms will have lots of deadly lightning, always the most dangerous element of summer storms.
Be sure and scroll down for lots of pictures sent to us of the storms yesterday and last night; some really incredible shelf cloud pictures from a wide area of Central Alabama. If you have pictures to send us, the address to use is [email protected]. Also, you can click on the “pictures” category here on the blog to see the latest viewer pictures anytime. All of the viewer pictures play in a flash slideshow from Flickr; you can stop the slideshow anytime and click on an individual picture at the bottom of the player. And, click on the picture itself and you can go to Flickr and see the images in full resolution.
TONIGHT/TOMORROW: Drier air invades North Alabama tonight, and the GFS and the NAM are still advertising a dry day tomorrow for the northern half of Alabama, with a high in the low 90s and lower humidity levels. This makes me nervous in mid-July, but we will go ahead and buy into the situation since the upper air flow is pretty high amplitude with an impressive vortex over East Canada along with a trailing trough.
FRIDAY AND THE WEEKEND: Moisture moves northward tomorrow night, and we will bring back the chance of scattered showers and storms on Friday as another surface front approaches from the north. The 00Z GFS brings that front down to around I-20 on Saturday, which will mean the most numerous showers and storms on Saturday will be from Tuscaloosa, Birmingham, and Anniston south (if the model is correct). The boundary dissipates on Sunday, and we will roll with a typical summer forecast Sunday with a partly sunny sky and the chance of scattered, mainly afternoon showers and storms.
NEXT WEEK: At this time we are expecting normal July weather for much of next week; hot and humid with the chance of afternoon showers and storms on a daily basis.
LONG RANGE: Still looks like a general pattern of a ridge over the western U.S., and a trough over the east, which means we should expect rainfall a little above normal here, with temperatures a little below normal.
TROPICS: Very quiet across the Atlantic basin this morning. On the other side of the Earth we do have Typhoon Man-Yi in the Pacific, which will approach Japan in a couple of days. See more over on Weatherparty.com…
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The great Alabama weather legend, J.B. Elliott, is working overtime with all of these storms around… he will have updates on developments through the day, and the next Weather Xtreme video will be posted by 3:30 this afternoon!
