ANOTHER COLD START: Temperatures are under freezing once more this morning throughout a lot of Northeast Alabama, and we’re seeing mid to higher 30s all the best way to far South Alabama. However, with an excellent provide of sunshine we count on a pleasant warm-up in the present day as temperatures rise to close 70 levels this afternoon. Clouds will transfer in tonight forward of a chilly entrance.
That entrance will convey rain to the state tomorrow together with a number of thunderstorms. SPC maintains a “slight danger” (stage 2/5) of extreme thunderstorms south of a line from Grove Hill to Georgiana to Dothan, with a “marginal danger” as far north as Moundville, Calera, and Wedowee.
The primary danger of sturdy to extreme storms shall be south of U.S. 84 throughout far South Alabama, the place the air shall be unstable forward of the entrance tomorrow afternoon. The primary menace will come from sturdy winds, though an remoted twister can’t be dominated out. For North Alabama, temperatures will go the unsuitable means as chilly air rushes in after the frontal passage. Temperatures will fall from the low 60s throughout the morning, by the 50s, and into the 40s by mid to late afternoon.
Rain quantities shall be round one inch tomorrow, with remoted heavier quantities.
THE ALABAMA WEEKEND: Whereas a number of showers might linger close to the Gulf Coast Saturday, the weekend shall be dry for a lot of the state with sunny cool days and honest chilly nights. Temperatures early Saturday will drop into the low to mid 30s, and a freeze is probably going early Sunday for a lot of the state with lows usually within the 22-32 diploma vary. Highs shall be usually within the 50s, however the northern third of the state received’t get out of the 40s Sunday afternoon.
NEXT WEEK: We have now taken out the prospect of rain Tuesday as world fashions have taken the Gulf of Mexico system off the board. Dry climate is probably going Monday by Thursday with a warming development. A freeze is probably going early Monday with lows within the 20s in lots of locations, however by Thursday afternoon temperatures rise into the mid to higher 70s. A chilly entrance will convey rain to the state Friday… See the video briefing for maps, graphics, and extra particulars.
ON THIS DATE IN 1942: One of many worst twister outbreaks in U.S. historical past was underway, producing 26 important tornadoes, together with 5 violent ones and 18 killers would trigger 148 fatalities from Illinois and Indiana, by Kentucky and Tennessee into Mississippi and Alabama. In Alabama, a twister killed a pair at Waterloo in Lauderdale County round 6 p.m. Their our bodies had been blown over 200 yards.
ON THIS DATE IN 1986: A small however uncommon twister touched down perilously near Disneyland in Anaheim, California.
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