THURSDAY Update: Locally Heavy Rain Friday/Saturday – Nice Frontal Relief Next Week!

Good Morning!  Here’s my brief video forecast discussion.     

 
CLIMATE DATA:  Yesterday’s high in Montgomery was 91, after a morning low of 71.  Rainfall:   .20”   Sunrise 6:24 AM, Sunset 6:59 PM. 

TODAY:   Still routine today. Partial sunshine.  Random “hit or miss” scattered & storms especially in the afternoon and evening hours.  High in the upper 80’s.    Low tonight 72.   

A weak front near the coast.  Best rain chance today will stay south.  Most of us locally will have about a 40% chance of getting wet.

Future Radar.   The HRRR model at 6PM.  You get the idea.  Scattered random storms here and there.

NEXT FEW DAYS:      Showers and storms will be scattered to numerous again by Friday & Saturday. Locally heavy rainfall amounts possible.  High temperatures will come down.  Mostly low 80’s Friday through Sunday.   The rain chance will trend downward again by Monday.  More scattered storms Monday as a Nice “Cool” front slips through the state.  NICE AIR behind the front on Tuesday.  Lower humidity.  I think much of next week will be great.  Sunshine.  Comfortable days and cooler nights. I’m excited.   

 The best rain chance will be Friday & Saturday.   We will be on the wet side of a Upper Low.  We are in a Level 2 Excessive rainfall Outlook from WPC

 The Southeastern U.S.  will be a very wet region over the next 5 days, especially I Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas.

FRONTAL RELIEF!:  More scattered storms Monday as a Nice “Cool” front slips through the state.  NICE AIR behind the front on Tuesday.  Lower humidity.  I think much of next week will be great.  Sunshine.  Comfortable days and cooler nights. I’m excited.   

Wow.  Here’s a sample of dewpoints Tuesday afternoon.  This will feel GREA!

TROPICAL OUTLOOK:   Danielle is still a Hurricane in the North Atlantic. 

Earl  is almost a major hurricane, with 105 mph winds.  In fact it could reach Category 4 strength in 36. hours. It will pass just southeast of Bermuda, causing Tropical Storm Force winds.

Invest 95-L is likely to become Fiona over the next few days as it curves into the the open Atlantic. An Area to Watch in the eastern Tropical Atlantic, has a 30% chance of development in the next 5 days.

FULL MOON:  The moon is 94% full today.  The Full Harvest Moon is Friday night.

Thanks for reading this Blog this morning! This morning we are LIVE on the radio from 6 to 9 on NewsTalk 93.1.  Watch us on TV on CBS 8 and ABC 32.  I’ll have another update for you in the morning.  Have a great day!

–Rich

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