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A thunderstorm complex moved into West Alabama last night… scroll down for Dr. Tim’s excellent post on the action. The weather around here is always interesting if you dig deep enough.
REST OF THE WEEK: Moist, tropical air will cover Alabama for the next five days, meaning some risk of showers and storms on a daily basis through Sunday. While the bulk of the showers and storms will come during the afternoon and evening hours, when the air tends to be more buoyant, you sure can’t rule out some late night or morning showers due to small scale boundaries, or other mesoscale features you won’t see on the synoptic maps, much like the one producing rain across the state this morning.
Afternoon highs through Friday will be mostly in the low 80s.
THE WEEKEND: I know this is the weekend for the Regions Charity Golf Classic at Ross Bridge, and it would be nice to promise a bright, sunny weekend, but that doesn’t look likely now. Scattered to numerous showers and storms are a good bet on Saturday and Sunday with copious moisture in place, and a surface boundary approaching by Sunday. While severe weather doesn’t look especially likely at this point, we could see some locally heavy rain before the weekend is over from slow moving thunderstorms. The high Saturday will be around 80, but the GFS is printing a high of only 72 on Sunday with clouds and periods of rain.
NEXT WEEK: The GFS continues the idea of drier air moving into our state early in the week and at this time our weather looks dry Monday through Wednesday of next week with lower humidity and cooler nights. Moisture returns later in the week by Thursday and Friday.
VOODOO LAND: The last week of May looks warm and humid with some risk of scattered showers and storms. Upper air winds are light and variable as the primary belt of westerlies moves well to the north, which is what we expect as we approach June.
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