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RIGHT NOW: The showers that have been over Alabama this morning are moving into Georgia, and nice breaks in the overcast are developing over the western half of the state. Tuscaloosa has warmed to 75 degrees, while Gadsden is reporting only 63 degrees with a cool east breeze.To the west, temperatures are in the 80s over much of Mississippi, where surface based CAPE values have soared to nearly 3,000 j/kg in spots. Additional storms should fire in the zone of differential heating during the next few hours around the Alabama/Mississippi state line; those storms will move eastward during the night.
COMING DAYS: Not much change in our thinking; a blanket of moist air will cover the state through the weekend, with some risk of showers and storms on a daily basis. The showers and storms tomorrow and Friday will be scattered, but the coverage should increase over the weekend with the approach of a surface cold front. Tomorrow and Friday will be warmer with highs in the low to mid 80s, but temperatures will trend downward over the weekend because of the clouds and showers.
While there could be a few strong storms along the way, for now we don’t see any reason for a major severe weather event during the next 5 days despite the daily risk of showers and storms. Of course, we will have to watch for any MCS that rolls down this way from the northwest this time of the year.
NEXT WEEK: I still think we have a great shot at a three day period of dry weather early next week, Monday through Wednesday, as continental air drops into the Deep South. Humidity values will be lower, and nights will be cooler. Moist air then returns by Thursday and Friday of next week.
VOODOO LAND: The prime belt of westerly winds aloft move up into Canada by the end of the month, leaving Alabama in a summer-like warm, humid airmass with some daily risk of scattered showers and storms. We are just about to the time of the year when that chance of a passing shower or storm will be in the forecast just about every day.
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