Scattered Storms/Muggy Air Continues… Wednesday Forecast Update – 4:15pm #alwx @wvua23
May 31, 2017 Leave a comment
Good Wednesday afternoon! Our local weather has started off very mild and muggy this morning, with a few scattered storms developing this afternoon. As of 4:15pm, the highest coverage of scattered storms was south of Tuscaloosa/Birmingham/Anniston. There’s a stationary boundary draped across our area. To the north of the boundary, rain chances are much lower, compared to the scattered to numerous storms south of the boundary. The risk of scattered storms across central and south Alabama will diminish this evening after sunset.
Our local area will be under the influence of a stationary boundary and plentiful tropical moisture through the rest of the week and into the weekend. Expect a fair chance of scattered, mainly afternoon and evening storms each day. It will not rain all day in any one spot; in-fact, you shouldn’t get more than an hour of rain at your house each day this week. Look for highs to reach the low to mid 80s through Sunday, with lows in the upper 60s.
A weak cold front will approach our area from the northwest on Sunday, brining a higher chance of scattered showers and storms to our area Saturday through Monday. By Monday night, the front should be ending the rain chance from northwest to southeast. I do not expect an all day/night rain this weekend, but you may get an hour or two of rain at your house. Skies will remain partly to mostly cloudy through Monday. Rain amounts will vary drastically, between little to no rain in a few spots to over 2 inches in other spots. Given the scattered nature of the storms, you could get an inch of rain at your house, while your neighbor doesn’t get a drop…
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Happy Memorial Day! We saw isolated showers and storms passing through central Alabama throughout the day. It first started very early this morning in west Alabama and was already lined across central Alabama from southern Hale County through Jefferson County by 9 a.m. Those showers and storms continued to press east and are now out of the state. There is a small cluster of showers moving through Mississippi that might bring a few sprinkles for west Alabama early this evening, but no major wash-out to worry about. North Alabama is starting to see a few isolated storms develop, including Walker and Cullman counties. These storms likely won’t last long with how fast they are moving and since they are about to lose daytime heating. Temperatures were never very hot, but muggy, humid air still made for slightly unpleasant conditions outdoors. Tonight, expect things to remain mostly dry but humid. Tomorrow will start our late beginning work week dry with another round of showers and storms developing by the afternoon. This rain will be widely scattered so some will remain dry.
Good Sunday evening! Showers and storms wrapped up early this morning for central Alabama. Conditions quickly turned sunny for a short amount of time before clouds redeveloped over the area. This kept temperatures from warming too extensively. Despite that, it still felt warm today with muggy conditions. We still have the chance for a few isolated showers and storms this evening, but the chances are very low: instead, the next chance for rain will start early tomorrow morning for Memorial Day when a batch of showers and storms make it into the state, if they have the steam to make it. In the afternoon, a stalled front over Alabama provides lift to take the humid air at the surface to start producing showers and storms periodically throughout the day.
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