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Anyone remember this song from Johnny Rivers?
“Summer Rain taps at my window
West wind soft as a sweet dream
My love, warm as the sunshine
Sitting here by me, yeah
She’s here by me
She stepped out of a rainbow
Golden hair shining like moonglow
Warm lips, soft as her soul
Sitting here by me, now
She’s here by me
All summer long we were dancing in the sand”
We think rain in the form of showers and thunderstorms will be a little more plentiful across Alabama during the next 48 hours thanks to a surface front approaching from the north. Fronts around here this time of the year are very sluggish, and rarely have the southward push to make it through Alabama. But, if they can get organized storms going north of Alabama, they often send down outflow boundaries that enhance shower and storm formation down here.
As usual, the best chance of the storms today and tomorrow will come in the 1:00 to 9:00 p.m. time frame, but we might have some nocturnal storms tonight, especially across the Tennessee Valley. Average rainfall totals between one-half and one inch are likely, but as always there will be some that are disappointed, and others that get more.
The 00Z GFS continues the trend of hanging up the front near the Alabama/Tennessee border on Sunday, so we better keep scattered showers and storms in the forecast for Sunday, although they should be more numerous south of Birmingham where the moisture will be deeper.
The front will dissipate early next week, but drier air will continue to creep in here, and any showers and storms Monday through Wednesday should be very isolated. Afternoons will remain hot, with highs in the low to mid 90s.
LONG RANGE: Still no sign of any really excessive heat for any extended period of time (upper 90s or triple digits)… and it looks like there will be sufficient moisture for a chance of scattered showers and storms on a daily basis through mid-July. Temperatures and rainfall should be near normal for mid-summer in Alabama.
TROPICS: Still no sign of any organization in the mass of storms east of Miami and West Palm Beach, over the Bahamas, and harsh upper air winds should keep anything from really brewing down there.
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This morning I will be at Smith Middle School in Huffman speaking to the kids at Camp Birmingham… I will be back in the office by early afternoon and the afternoon Weather Xtreme video will be posted by 3:30!
