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As Tim Coleman points out below, a very moist, ripe airmass is hanging over Alabama, and most likely will go nowhere during the next five to seven days. Accordingly, every afternoon and evening we expect scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms, producing heavy rain, gusty winds (and the potential for wet microbursts), and some really fierce lightning. While most of the showers and storms will come from 12:00 noon until 12:00 midnight, we can’t rule out the chance of a few rogue late night or morning showers along the way. This weather will continue all the way through the Labor Day weekend and into early next week. Some communities have a chance of receiving more than four inches of rain during the next five days. And, don’t you know the trees and shrubs will be slurping it all up.
With the clouds and rain, daytime temperatures will continue to trend downward; looks like highs in the upper 80s for the most part through the holiday weekend. A very nice change from the 100 to 107 degree heat we had to deal with last week. Once again, the TDH (triple digit heat) is out of here until 2008 or later.
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TROPICS: The wave over the western Caribbean will move into Central America tonight… sure looks like it is trying to get its act together, but interaction with land will end the chance of this one becoming a tropical storm. Farther out in the Central Atlantic, another good looking wave is around 12N and 40W; that one will enter a region of higher SSTs (sea surface temperatures) in coming days, and will have some potential for development. We will keep an eye on it.
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J.B. will keep you posted on the big storms as the continue to fire up in the streamy airmass this afternoon… I will have the next Weather Xtreme video posted here by 7:00 a.m. tomorrow…
