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Be sure and scroll and and read the nugget we found about J.B. Elliott on the NOAA “Hall of Honor”. Good stuff.
We actually have a few returns on the radar this morning at the insane hour of 5:00… which certainly bodes well for convective development later today across our state as the air heats up and becomes buoyant. An upper trough passing north of here has clearly made a good dent in the upper air ridge across the Deep South, so the general idea of heat levels backing down, and rain chances going up sure look good through mid-week.
Of course, rain distribution won’t be very even in summer; some neighborhoods will get soaked later today while others remain dry (although you can hear thunder and see lightning). The actual chance of any one spot getting wet today is about one in three, and we expect highs in the 88 to 91 degree range for most places.
LATER IN THE WEEK AND THE WEEKEND: Scattered showers and storms will remain in the forecast through Saturday. If anything, the coverage of showers and storms will increase on Friday and Saturday with the approach of a surface boundary from the north. Then, the GFS continues the idea of drier air working down into North Alabama Sunday and Monday, and it looks like we can just about leave out any chance of rain on these two days from Birmingham north. Afternoon highs will remain in the 86 to 89 degree range.
VOODOO LAND: Still looks like average temperatures and rain for Alabama for the latter half of June; the GFS hints at another surface boundary passing through here around June 19. The tropics continue to look quiet for now.
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Back to Double Oak Community Church for Summer Xtreme 2:52 this morning… I will crank out an afternoon edition of the Weather Xtreme video by 3:30 or so today. Enjoy the day…
