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HAZY DAYS: Looks like the tropical system over the Florida peninsula has now drifted over into the Atlantic, and still has potential to become a tropical depression tonight or tomorrow. The moisture from that system will mainly impact far eastern Georgia, and the eastern half of the Carolinas through Saturday with periods of rain, heavy at times. Alabama will be on the dry side, so any showers around here through Sunday will be few and far between. Highs will remain mostly in the low 90s, about where we should be this time of the year.
NEXT WEEK: Still some chance that we will see an increase in the number of showers and storms Tuesday and Wednesday with a surface boundary approaching from the north. That front will run out of gas in Tennessee and fizzle out.
TROPICS: Watch the Weather Xtreme video for all of the satellite images and graphics… a well organized in the Southwest Caribbean could become a tropical depression tonight, but it will move into Central America tomorrow, so it won’t have much time to strengthen. Heavy rain, flooding, and mudslides will be a big problem.
Invest 94L is moving through the southern Caribbean. It will pass south of the most significant shearing, and I get the idea this thing just might survive (where is Gloria Gaynor when you need her)… the GFS takes this one across the Yucatan, into the Southwest Gulf of Mexico, and up to a landfall point near Brownsville, Texas Wednesday of next week.
And, the wave that came off the coast of Africa yesterday looks pretty ill defined in the far eastern Atlantic.
AIR QUALITY ALERT: Another code orange air quality alert is in effect for Jefferson and Shelby Counties tomorrow… that means air quality is expected to be hazardous for sensitive groups; people with asthma, etc.
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