The remainder of the week will generally be warm and dry with high pressure in control across the eastern states. The chance for showers and thunderstorms will likely increase this upcoming weekend as Gulf moisture makes a push to the north into the southeastern US.
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All in all, this looks like a relatively quiet and dry week for the continental US, but tropical systems may change that in a big way by this weekend or the early part of next week. There are not one, not two, but three tropical systems that will have to be closely monitored in coming days...two in the eastern Pacific and one in the Gulf. The only one of the three systems that is currently named is “Rachel” which is a minimal hurricane in the eastern Pacific that is on a seemingly harmless westerly track during the next few days. After that, however, there are signs that “Rachel” will take a drastic turn from a westerly direction to northeasterly, and this could bring its moisture field into the southwestern US and potentially, well up to the north of there.
The second tropical wave in the eastern Pacific should strengthen in the near term to become a named tropical storm and potentially, it can attain classification as a hurricane. This trailing system is likely to turn into Mexico and ultimately, its moisture field can impact the southwestern or south-central states. Meanwhile, a tropical wave now over the very warm waters of the southwestern Gulf of America can intensify into named tropical storm status and potentially into the season’s first hurricane for the Atlantic Basin as it pushes towards the northern Gulf region by the weekend…and potentially, well to the north of there.
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Today will be very warm across northern Alabama and there will be plenty of sunshine as well. The chance of showers and thunderstorms will rise on Friday afternoon and continue into the weekend and locally heavy rainfall is a possibility.
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A warming trend will take place this week with higher humidity levels on the way as well. It looks to be generally rain-free during the next few days and then the risk of showers and storms will tend to rise late in the week and for the weekend.
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A slightly cooler and drier air mass has filtered into the southeastern US under the influence of low pressure over the western Atlantic. The next few days should feature afternoon highs generally in the low-to-middle 80’s and overnight lows raging from the upper 50’s to middle 60’s.
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The weather remains unsettled today, but not quite as hot as recent days with afternoon highs in the lower 90’s and a chance of PM showers and thunderstorms. A slightly cooler and drier air mass will arrive at mid-week and we’ll be dealing with highs on the 80’s for the late week and weekend.
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The weather remains quite hot for the next couple of days with high pressure to our north in control. Temperatures today can peak in the upper 90’s and then the low-to-mid 90’s are on the table for tomorrow afternoon. It becomes more manageable later in the week with afternoon highs mainly confined to the low-to-mid 80’s from Wednesday to Saturday. As far as rain goes, there is the chance for showers and thunderstorms during the PM hours on Monday and Tuesday as well and some of the storms can be strong.
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The weather remains very hot for the next few days with high pressure to our north in control. Temperatures today and through the weekend should peak in the upper 90’s for afternoon highs and then come back a bit by the middle of next week with Wednesday’s highs close to the 90-degree mark.
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The weather remains quite hot for the remainder of the week with high pressure to our north in control. Temperatures today should peak in the mid-to-upper 90’s for afternoon highs and then peak in the middle 90’s on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
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We have now reached rare territory for the Atlantic Basin due to the lack of hurricanes at this stage of the tropical season. In fact, this is the latest time without an Atlantic hurricane during the satellite era which began in 1966 and there is likelihood that one has to go all the way back to 1941 though confidence in the tracking of hurricanes is far less certain in the pre-satellite era. Having said that, an extremely quiet first half of the tropical season does not guarantee an uneventful second half…indeed, there are some signals that activity will pick up later this month.
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