7:00 AM | **Hurricane Idalia makes landfall as a "major"...remnants to push to the Carolina coastline before high pressure halts its northward advance**

6-Day forecast for the Huntsville, Alabama metro region

Today

Mainly sunny, windy, comfortably warm, highs in the lower 80’s; N-NE winds around 10-20 mph

Tonight

Mainly clear, cool, lows near 60 degrees

Thursday

Mainly sunny, nice, lower 80’s for afternoon highs

Thursday Night             

Partly cloudy, mild, near 65 degrees for late night lows

Friday

Mainly sunny, warm, chance of showers and thunderstorms, mid 80’s

Saturday

Mainly sunny, warm, mid-to-upper 80’s

Sunday

Mainly sunny, quite warm, near 90 degrees

Monday

Mainly sunny, quite warm, near 90 degrees

Discussion              

Hurricane Idalia makes landfall this morning as a “major” along Florida’s Gulf coast and will push to the northeast over the next 24-36 hours likely reaching the Carolina coastline by early Thursday. High pressure to our northwest will build into the Northeast US in this same 24-36 hour time period halting any northward advance of Idalia past the state of North Carolina. This same high pressure system will combine with the tropical cyclone to our east to push drier air into the Tennessee Valley featuring comfortable temperatures as we wind down the month of August.

Meteorologist Paul Dorian
Arcfield Weather