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Sure looks like we are settling into a very routine, uneventful weather pattern for the next seven days. Just about every day we will say something like “partly sunny, hot, and humid with a few scattered afternoon and evening showers and thunderstorms”. Highs in the low to mid 90s. I wish we had a better way of defining summer weather, but the features that determine the placement and coverage of afternoon storms are very small, and you can’t really forecast them very well. Synoptic scale models certainly don’t see them either.
We will have to watch for MCS development northwest of Alabama in coming days, with a general northwest flow aloft, those can bring an occasional surprise. The core of the upper ridge will remain west of Alabama, with hot and dry weather for North Texas and much of Oklahoma. Looks like we remain on the eastern periphery of that ridge through early next week.
And, still no sign of any long term, excessive heat problem through mid-August. Don’t get me wrong, the weather here is always hot in July and August, but nothing like last year when we dealt with triple digit heat for a long period of time.
AIR QUALITY ALERT: A code orange ozone alert for the Birmingham metro area tomorrow (Jefferson and Shelby Counties).
TROPICS: The Atlantic basin also looks quiet… a weak wave in the Central Atlantic is showing no signs of life, and tropical storm formation is not expected through at least Friday.
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I will be at Camp Booth in northern Bibb County near Green Pond speaking to the annual Hunter Street Baptist Church Kid Camp both tonight and tomorrow night between our 6:00 and 10:00 newscasts… I am really looking forward to that; I will be the “mad meteorologist” again. Look for the next Weather Xtreme video here by 7:00 a.m. tomorrow!
