A good Saturday to you! It was certainly a nice day to be outdoors, with sunny skies and temperatures in the 70s. Now that the sun has set, temperatures will cool off quiet a bit for the overnight hours. We can expect lows in the lower 40s. Upper 30s are likely for northeast Alabama.
We’ll have one more day of nice weather on Sunday. Temperatures will remain in the lower to middle 70s for highs, but clouds begin to move in late in the day; mainly high level clouds. Tropical Storm Ida is expected to become a hurricane later tonight, and will move into the Gulf of Mexico. It is late in the year, but it is still the Atlantic Hurricane Season. Sure, it’s rare for a tropical system to be in the gulf this time of the year, but it has happened before. Our weather will go downhill Monday afternoon, with rain spreading in from the south. As Ida gets closer to Alabama, we’ll see windy conditions developing. Winds gusting to 35 or 40 MPH in some locations are possible. We can expect periods of moderate to heavy rain Monday evening, Monday night and on Tuesday. The good news is that Ida will be weakening as it moves into the northern Gulf of Mexico, so we aren’t expecting winds to get too strong. The system moves out on Wednesday, with temperatures becoming a little cooler. Highs will top out in the upper 60s on Wednesday.
For the rest of the week and the weekend, nice weather makes a return, with highs in the lower 70s and sunny skies. A cold front moves in on Saturday, which will bring some rain with it. Be sure to join me tonight at 10 PM on WVUA-TV for the latest on Ida and your forecast.
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Have a great day!
Richard Scott
