James Spann forecasts a mostly dry stretch for Alabama into next week from Alabama NewsCenter on Vimeo.
QUIET PATTERN: Most of Alabama will remain rain-free through the beginning of the Labor Day weekend as an upper ridge continues to hold over the region. A few isolated showers could pop up during the afternoon and evening hours near the Tennessee state line, but odds of any one spot getting wet for most of the state will be only around 10% through Saturday. The high will be in the low 90s today and Friday, dropping into the upper 80s Sunday. We will bring in some risk of widely scattered showers Sunday and Monday, but still nothing widespread. The bottom line is that Alabama’s weather will be nice and quiet through the holiday weekend.
NEXT WEEK: We expect to see an increase in the number of showers and thunderstorms Tuesday and Wednesday ahead of a cold front. A nice surge of cooler, drier air should creep into the state next Thursday and Friday, when highs drop into the 79- to 82-degree range. Morning lows for a number of north Alabama communities will be in the 50s.
TROPICS: Omar is dissipating in the Atlantic, well east of the U.S. and far from land. Nana moved into the coast of Belize last night as a Category 1 hurricane; it will slowly fizzle out over Central America over the next 24 hours.
Out in the eastern Atlantic, a tropical wave off the coast of west Africa is merging with another disturbance a couple of hundred miles south of the Cabo Verde Islands, resulting in an extensive area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms. Development of this system is likely to be slow during the next couple of days while it moves west-northwestward at about 15 mph, and a tropical depression is more likely to form early next week over the central tropical Atlantic, where environmental conditions are forecast to be more favorable for development. It remains to be seen whether this will have an impact on the U.S. or any land mass.
The Gulf of Mexico remains quiet, and the weather will be routine on the central Gulf Coast (Gulf Shores to Panama City Beach) for the Labor Day weekend, with a good supply of sunshine daily and a few scattered storms.
FOOTBALL WEATHER: UAB kicks off its season tonight at Legion Field against Central Arkansas (7 p.m. kickoff). The sky will be clear with temperatures falling from near 84 degrees at kickoff into the upper 70s by the final whistle.
LOOKING BACK AT AUGUST: The average high for Birmingham was 89.8 degrees, slightly below the “normal” value of 90.6 degrees. The hottest day was Aug. 12, when the high was 96. Rain for the month was 5.89 inches, well above the average of 3.93 inches.
ON THIS DATE IN 1970: During the early evening, amid a severe hailstorm at Coffeyville, Kansas, a hailstone 17.5 inches in circumference weighing nearly two pounds was recovered. The average stone size from the storm was 5 inches in diameter, with another stone reportedly 8 inches in diameter.
ON THIS DATE IN 1979: Hurricane David made landfall in south Florida as a Category 2 storm. It caused 15 deaths in the U.S. Hurricane David was a Category 5 over the Dominican Republic, where more than 2,000 people died. It would be followed a week later by Hurricane Frederic, which made landfall on the Alabama Gulf Coast.
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September 03, 2020 at 08:02PM
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