Morning sounding from the Shelby County Airport this morning showed that drier air was settling into Central Alabama. You can see the substantial dry layer from about 800 millibars up where the red line (temperature) is separated from the green line (dew point). This support the idea that we’ll see very few showers or thunderstorms in Central and North Alabama today.
And the dry air was evident in the surface observations, too. Note in the observation around 10 am that the dew point at Birmingham was 65 while at Calera it was 74. This weak frontal boundary should continue to move southward today helping to suppress any shower development over the northern half of the state of Alabama. So it looks like most of the isolated showers should be from about Montgomery southward this afternoon.
Even though the air for us will be slightly drier, it is still going to be quite warm with highs ranging from about 94 to 97 across Central Alabama.
-Brian-
