DRY DAYS: A dry air mass covers Alabama, and the entire state is shower-free at mid-afternoon. Temperatures are mostly between 88 and 92 degrees, and tonight will be mostly clear with a low in the low 70s.
FRIDAY THROUGH THE LABOR DAY WEEKEND: We don’t expect much change through Sunday as the relatively dry pattern continues. Any afternoon showers Friday should be very isolated and mainly near the Tennessee state line. Saturday looks like a dry, sunny day statewide, and then on Sunday a few scattered showers could show up over the southern counties. The high will be close to 90 Friday and in the upper 80s Saturday and Sunday.
Moisture will begin to rise on Labor Day, and we will mention a chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms, but still nothing widespread. Monday’s high will be between 85 and 88 degrees for most communities.
NEXT WEEK: Coverage of showers and thunderstorms will increase during midweek, and we have a pretty decent chance of seeing noticeably cooler air toward the end of the week following a cold front.
TROPICS: Omar is dissipating over the open Atlantic, well east of the U.S., and Nana is dissipating inland over Central America. So the attention is shifting to the far eastern Atlantic, where the National Hurricane Center is monitoring three areas. Two of them have a medium to high chance of becoming a tropical depression or storm over the next five days, but it is way too early to know whether they will reach the U.S. Just something to watch for now.
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 04, 2020 at 03:23AM
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