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RIGHT NOW: Showers are very widely spaced across Alabama this afternoon…. I do think we see more development during the next three hours, but the showers will remain widely scattered. Temperatures remain below normal levels; most places are somewhere between 84 and 89 degrees at 3:00.
TOMORROW AND FRIDAY: I get the idea tomorrow will be much like today; some decent intervals of midday sunshine, and a few widely scattered afternoon showers and storms. We should be somewhere in the 89 to 92 degree range by mid-afternoon. But, on Friday, a rather robust front for July will approach from the north, and that should bring an increase in the number of showers and storms late in the day and into Friday night.
THE WEEKEND: If you have been reading the discussions this week, you know I have been concerned about the GFS idea of bringing dry air into North Alabama over the weekend. Sure enough, the 12Z GFS has come in much slower, and the front remains near the Alabama/Tennessee border, which would mean a continued opportunity for scattered showers and storms on Saturday. Then, drier air trickles in here on Sunday and Monday as the best chance of showers and storms shifts down into South Alabama.
LONG RANGE: Still no sign of any really intense heat around here through the rest of July; just your run of the mill hot, humid summer weather for Alabama with a chance of scattered showers and storms on an almost daily basis.
TROPICS: Watch the video and see Tropical Storm Cosme, about 1000 miles east of the Hawaiian Islands; that thing should weaken and pass south of the islands over the weekend. Still nothing really organized across the Atlantic basin.
I CONFESS: Brian Peters came in here the other day flashing his new iPhone. I have fallen to the temptation; I bought an iPhone from at the Birmingham Apple Store yesterday afternoon. I run fast and furious from early morning into the late night hours, and being “connected to the grid” is crucial to work, and this little device will help my productivity greatly (sounds like a great excuse, huh?). It has actually far surpassed my expectations. I might write a little review of the device here in coming days after I put it through the daily grind. I also need to say that Bill “Bubba” Bussey is another one that has been tempting me (he has had one since it came out a couple of weeks ago).
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