It's your standard forecast for a dry Alabama summertime day: hot, hazy sunshine. A sprawling ridge of high pressure west of us today will provide a northwest wind aloft and very light winds down here close to the ground. That presents two problems for us today: one, it gets hotter this afternoon, and two, with the light winds and a subsidence inversion above 10,000 feet, haze and ground level ozone will be a problem, especially in Jefferson and Shelby Counties. The highest concentration of air pollution is in North Birmingham today.
That ridge that is giving us the hot, hazy weather will begin to weaken this weekend, which could give an upper air low to our east a chance to spread some additional clouds and a few isolated thunderstorms into the state on Saturday afternoon. The best chance of rain will be well southeast of Birmingham, though, in places like Dothan, Phenix City, and Montgomery. By Sunday, that upper air low should start to move a little more to the west, and that will increase our chance of rain; however, don't look for any widespread soaking rains anytime soon! The rain by Sunday and early next week will be in a scattered fashion with some spots getting a heavy downpour and others staying bone dry!
Because of the scattered nature of thunderstorms, next week's high temperatures should stay in the upper 80s to lower 90s with morning lows near 70 degrees.
That ridge that is giving us the hot, hazy weather will begin to weaken this weekend, which could give an upper air low to our east a chance to spread some additional clouds and a few isolated thunderstorms into the state on Saturday afternoon. The best chance of rain will be well southeast of Birmingham, though, in places like Dothan, Phenix City, and Montgomery. By Sunday, that upper air low should start to move a little more to the west, and that will increase our chance of rain; however, don't look for any widespread soaking rains anytime soon! The rain by Sunday and early next week will be in a scattered fashion with some spots getting a heavy downpour and others staying bone dry!
Because of the scattered nature of thunderstorms, next week's high temperatures should stay in the upper 80s to lower 90s with morning lows near 70 degrees.