High pressure over the western Atlantic continues to pump hot and humid air into the Tennessee Valley. In fact, the high heat and humidity will hold on all week as weak frontal passages will not be able to provide much, if any, relief to the area. Elsewhere, there are multiple tropical waves to monitor in the Atlantic Basin; however, there are no serious threats for the US mainland during the next several days.
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High pressure at all levels of the atmosphere in the eastern US and over the western Atlantic continues to dominate the scene around here and this is leading to our extended stretch of hot weather. Temperatures should climb to the middle 90’s once again this afternoon and likely will reach that high level over the next couple of days. Showers and thunderstorms will be scattered over the next couple of days across the Tennessee Valley, but will tend to increase at mid-week as a frontal system drops southeastward across the Northern Plains and towards the region. Elsewhere, a tropical wave of low pressure looks like it’ll travel from the northern Caribbean Islands towards the Gulf of Mexico over the next few days with a small chance of some intensification.
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We are approaching the climatologically warmest time of the year for the Mid-Atlantic/Northeast US/Great Lakes regions of the country and it looks the weather pattern will live up to those long-term averages. The hottest weather of the season so far will begin this weekend and continue through the middle of next week. The hottest days during this stretch for the I-95 corridor will likely turn out to be Sunday and Monday when temperatures should climb to the mid and upper 90’s in the DC-to-Philly-to-NYC-Boston corridor.
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High pressure continues to dominate the scene around here and is leading to an extended stretch of hot weather across the northern part of Alabama. One high pressure center has pushed off the New England coastline and another sits over the southeastern part of the nation. Both of these will consolidate this weekend over the western Atlantic Ocean into the familiar “Bermuda-high” type of pattern and this will produce a stretch of hot and humid conditions in much of the eastern US. Elsewhere, the Atlantic Basin tropical scene continues to be quiet partly as a result of some dry, desert air that has pushed to the west from northern Africa; however, there are signs that the “African-wave train” may get quite active later this month.
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High pressure continues to dominate the scene around here and is leading to an extended stretch of hot weather across the northern part of Alabama. One high pressure center is now positioned over the northeastern US and another sits over the southeastern part of the nation. Both of these will consolidate over the western Atlantic this weekend into the familiar “Bermuda-high” type of pattern and this will produce extended hot and humid conditions in much of the eastern US. Elsewhere, the Atlantic Basin tropical scene continues to be quiet partly as a result of some dry, desert air that has pushed to the west from northern Africa; however, there are signs that the “African-wave train” may get quite active later this month.
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High pressure dominates the scene and it will result in a hot stretch of weather for the northern part of Alabama in coming days. One high pressure center is positioned over the Northeast US and a second over the southeastern part of the country. The combination of the two will produce south-to-southeast winds around here in the lower part of the atmosphere and the result will be hot and humid conditions. In fact, temperatures should peak in the low-to-mid 90’s later today and this kind of heat should persist through the upcoming weekend. Elsewhere, the Atlantic Basin tropical scene continues to be quiet partly as a result of some dry, desert air that has pushed to the west from northern Africa.
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A summer-like week continues across northern Alabama with highs in the middle 90’s from mid-week on to the weekend. High pressure at all levels of the atmosphere is controlling the weather across much of the southern US and it’ll produce a pretty hot week across Alabama. Much or all of the next couple of days will be rain-free, but the threat for scattered showers and storms will return for the second half of the week. One final note, Comet NEOWISE is now visible in the evening sky – look straight down and a little bit to the right from the Big Dipper to near the horizon in the northwest sky about an hour or so after sunset (i.e., around 9:30 PM)…may need binoculars.
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First, there was Comet ATLAS in April which disappointed sky watchers as it broke apart into pieces. Then there was Comet SWAN in May which also disintegrated. And now we have a third comet named NEOWISE and this one is coming through and could be visible until mid-August. In recent days, this comet has dazzled sky watchers and may be the brightest comet since 1997 (Hale-Bopp). The comet will be easier to see in coming days as it climbs in the evening sky towards the Big Dipper (aka Ursa Major).
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A summer-like week is in store for northern Alabama with highs in the middle 90’s from mid-week on to the weekend. High pressure at all levels of the atmosphere is controlling the weather across much of the southern US and it’ll produce a pretty hot week across Alabama. Much or all of the next couple of days will be rain-free, but the threat for scattered showers and storms will return for the second half of the week. One final note, Comet NEOWISE is now become visible in the evening sky – look low to the northwest an hour or so after sunset.
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Attention will be focused today on the Outer Banks region of North Carolina as low pressure over that area is likely to push to the northeast later today and then move in a more northerly direction reaching the southern part of the Delmarva Peninsula by early tomorrow. With this expected move out over the warm waters of the western Atlantic, there is a chance for intensification and a possible "naming" of the storm by NOAA's National Hurricane Center as it potentially reaches tropical storm status (it would be "Fay"). Whether or not "naming" of the storm takes place, heavy rainfall is on the table for Friday across the eastern Mid-Atlantic and it’ll stay somewhat unsettled around here with copious amounts of moisture left behind from this system will sat over the Southeast US for several days. The departure of this coastal storm on Saturday will not be the end of the wet weather pattern in the eastern US. An impressive upper-level trough should form by later in the weekend likely leading to more rainfall around here during the first half of next week.
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