Moisture from the Southeast US will combine with a cold front to bring us another shot at showers and thunderstorms later today and tonight. High pressure will build into the area on Thursday and we should enjoy a couple of decent days in the Tennessee Valley. In fact, highs on Thursday are likely to stay confined to the low or mid 70’s – more than ten degrees below normal for this time of year.
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A troughing east/ridging west type of pattern is setting up for the Lower 48 and this will bring another cold front towards the local region from the northwest. Moisture from the Southeast US will combine with the front to bring us another shot at showers and thunderstorms at mid-week. Drier weather will return later in the week as the upper-level trough of low pressure slides past the Tennessee Valley.
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A cold front will sweep across the Tennessee Valley today and there is the chance for some shower and thunderstorm activity as a result. It’ll turn cooler later tonight and temperatures should fall into the upper 50’s for overnight lows. The last time temperatures here were below 60 degrees was about a month ago in the middle of May. Highs tomorrow following the frontal passage will be near 80…several degrees below-normal for this time of year.
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The current stretch of wet weather in the Tennessee Valley will last right through the upcoming weekend and into the first part of next week. An upper-level trough of low pressure will stick around for the next few days and it won’t weaken until the early part of next week. As a result, some spots will receive several inches of rain over this wet stretch on top of already well-saturated grounds and drier weather looks like it’ll have to wait until Tuesday or Wednesday of next week.
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The latest stretch of wet weather in the Tennessee Valley will last right through the upcoming weekend and into the first part of next week. An upper-level trough of low pressure will stick around for the next few days and won’t weaken until the early part of next week. As a result, some spots could receive several inches of rain over this stretch on top of already well-saturated grounds.
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The weather becomes much more unsettled over the next few days as high pressure ridging gives way to an upper-level trough of low pressure that will make it over northern Texas and Oklahoma by tomorrow night. As a result, showers and thunderstorms will become quite likely on Thursday and the threat may last right into the early part of next week. Temperatures will approach 90 degrees later today, but will likely to be confined to the mid 80’s during the upcoming cloudy and rainy stretch of weather in the Tennessee Valley.
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High pressure ridging continues to dominate the scene across the Southeast US and we’ll have another hot and rain-free day in the Tennessee Valley, but it becomes much more unsettled as the week progresses. Deep moisture surges into the region at mid-week as a strong upper-level disturbance slides across the region and our chances for showers and thunderstorms will increase. The rain threat will continue later in the week and it looks like a good chance for more rain this weekend.
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High pressure ridging continues to dominate the scene across the Southeast US and we’ll start off the new work week with a couple of hot days. Deeper moisture surges into the region at mid-week as a strong upper-level disturbances slides across the region and our chances for showers and thunderstorms will increase. Meanwhile, the 2019 Atlantic Basin tropical season “officially” began on Saturday, June 1st and there is a disturbance in the southwest Gulf of Mexico that has a chance of strengthening into a named storm in coming days as it moves northward along Mexico’s west coast and then near or along the east coast of Texas.
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The big weather story for northern Alabama remains to be the first extended heat wave of the season. High temperatures for the next several days will soar into the mid and upper 90’s as relatively stationary strong high pressure remains locked in place over the Southeast US.
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The big weather story for northern Alabama remains the first extended heat wave of the season. After a day with highs in the lower 90’s, it looks like the rest of the week and upcoming weekend could feature temperatures between 94 and 98 degrees on each afternoon as high pressure intensifies across the eastern third of the nation.
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