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How many ways can you say it’s hot? The heat just keeps rolling along and now there is a heat advisory as heat indices boil upwards into the 105 to 110 range. And with the current forecast and anticipated weather pattern, look for more heat advisories during the upcoming week.
For today, we already have several small showers on radar, one near Leeds, one in the vicinity of Talladega, and one just east of Mt. Cheaha. There were moving fairly quickly eastward. Some spots saw showers yesterday. My yard was one of the lucky spots with 1.23 inches of rain coming between about 7:30 and 9:30 last night. A friend in Pelham reported 1.77 inches but another friend a little further north noted only 38 hundredths of an inch. This certainly illustrates the spotty nature of summer thunderstorms. What everyone agreed on was the spectacular lightning display with that thunderstorm. I was driving from The Summit to Helena between 9 and 9:30 pm and I can attest to the highly visible nature of the lightning.
The upper air pattern shows that the upper ridge will just get stronger today and tomorrow with a little weakening to it on Tuesday. By Wednesday, the GFS is suggesting a short wave could come through the ridge and once again establish a weakness in the upper air pattern over the Southeast US. While this won’t help the temperatures much, it should help to increase rain chances from Wednesday into the weekend. This could mean that more people see some rain. Unfortunately, until we can find a major air mass change, the heat and humidity will be sticking around generating a boring but typical summer forecast with shower chances every afternoon.
SPC’s outlook shows the major severe weather focus to be well north of us in the Upper Midwest through Day 3. And the National Hurricane Center (NHC) is not watching any area in the tropics for storm development at this time.
Looking further afield, the GFS has continued the trend from yesterday of developing a long wave trough over the eastern half of the country. This is a welcome trend for us as it should help to lower afternoon highs at least into the lower 90s. And that would certainly be welcome. With troughiness over the eastern half of the country, we might also see a bit more coverage to the daily showers.
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Thanks for staying tuned to the Weather Xtreme Video. James Spann should be back from his brief summer vacation with the next edition of the video on Monday morning. I hope you have a great Sunday. Be sure to take the heat advisory seriously and stay hydrated if you will be playing or working outside for the next several days. Godspeed.
-Brian-
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