**No afternoon Weather Xtreme video today; I am live at Veterans Park in Hoover on ABC33/40 News getting ready for Free Friday Flicks**
QUIET PATTERN CONTINUES: A couple of rogue showers popped up this afternoon over Cherokee County, otherwise it has been another dry day for Alabama. Temperatures are mostly in the mid to upper 80s over the northern half of the state, with low 90s over far South Alabama. Tonight will be fair and pleasant with lows mostly in the 60s.
THE ALABAMA WEEKEND: While humidity levels will rise, we expect showers to remain few and far between tomorrow and Sunday. Afternoon highs will be close to 90 degrees, and the chance of any one spot getting wet is only 10 percent over North Alabama, and 20 percent across the southern counties of the state. Partly to mostly sunny days, fair nights.
NEXT WEEK: An upper air disturbance could trigger a few scattered showers or storms Tuesday, but the pattern continues to suggest generally dry conditions through the week with high around 90 degrees continuing.
TROPICS: The Atlantic basin remain very quiet, and tropical storm formation it not expected over the next five to seven days.
RAIN UPDATE: Here are updated rain totals since January 1, and the departure from average…
Huntsville 39.89″ (+7.88″)
Anniston 35.72″ (+4.95″)
Tuscaloosa 33.18″ (+1.37″)
Birmingham 31.67″ (-0.61″)
Calera (Shelby County Airport) 31.25″ (-1.15″)
Montgomery 26.92″ (-4.95″)
ON THIS DATE IN 1931: A swarm of grasshoppers descends on crops throughout the American heartland, devastating millions of acres. Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota, already in the midst of a bad drought, suffered tremendously from this disaster.
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