7:00 AM | *Closely monitoring the Atlantic tropical activity*
Paul Dorian
6-Day Huntsville Forecast
Today
Partly sunny, hot, humid, chance of showers and thunderstorms, highs near 90 degrees
Tonight
Mainly cloudy, mild, muggy, slight chance of showers and thunderstorms, lows in the lower 70’s
Friday
Partly sunny, hot, humid, chance of showers and thunderstorms, lower 90’s for afternoon highs
Friday Night
Partly cloudy, mild, muggy, lower 70’s for late night lows
Saturday
Mainly sunny, hot, humid, chance of showers and thunderstorms, lower 90’s
Sunday
Partly sunny, hot, humid, chance of showers and thunderstorms, near 90 degrees
Monday
Mainly cloudy, quite warm, humid, chance of showers and thunderstorms, mid-to-upper 80’s
Tuesday
Mainly cloudy, quite warm, humid, chance of showers and thunderstorms, mid-to-upper 80’s
Discussion
The climatological peak of the Atlantic Basin tropical season comes in mid-September and this year is certainly holding true to form. Tropical Storm Gordon came ashore early yesterday in the vicinity of the Alabama/Mississippi border region and it is now well inland south-central US. While Gordon has been downgraded to tropical depression status, it is likely to contribute to an extended swath of heavy rainfall in coming days. Meanwhile, Florence has intensified into major hurricane (category 3) status out over the central Atlantic. There is still a chance that Florence gets “captured” by an eastward-moving upper-level trough of low pressure this weekend over the north Atlantic, but odds favor it being “left behind”. If indeed Florence is not “captured” by the trough this weekend then strong and expanding high pressure ridging to the north early next week could very well steer it westward towards the US east coast. Any potential impact on the US east coast by Hurricane Florence would likely come during the middle or latter part of next week.
Meteorologist Paul Dorian
Perspecta, Inc.
perspectaweather.com