Hot Fun In The Summertime

The Wednesday afternoon map discussion video is on the server:

http://beta.abc3340.com/weather/video.hrb

Anyone remember Sly and the Family Stone? We need to do some 70s top 40 music trivia on here sometime. Those songs were the soundtrack of my life for five years when I worked for the BIG 1230 in Tuscaloosa as a teenager.

The radar seems to be fairly quiet as of 3:00 p.m... but with good cumulus towers all around I expect more development during the next couple of hours in the moist air over Alabama. Like yesterday, the showers and storms in progress are not moving much, so some communities will have heavy rain.

We will continue the trend toward drier and hotter weather tomorrow and Friday, with low to mid 90s possible and only isolated afternoon storms. We will watch a surface front north of the state, which will be near Nashville late Friday. This might help to send a band of strong storms down this way late Friday afternoon or Friday night.

THE WEEKEND: The front will stall out and wash out this weekend, and I still think we can roll with a forecast of typical summer weather for the Independence Day weekend. Partly sunny, warm, humid days with a passing shower or storm around each afternoon. Temperatures will top out near the 90 degree mark.

TROPICS: Bret moved into Mexico this morning as a weak tropical storm, and is now falling apart as the circulation remains inland. Unfortunately the best moisture should stay south of the Rio Grande River Valley, where they really need the rain.

Here are some other summer songs that come to mind from my days in radio:

In The Summertime - Mungo Jerry
Summer - War
Summer Nights - John Travolta/Olivia Newton-John (from the movie Grease)
Summer Song - Chad and Jeremy
Summer Rain - Johnny Rivers
Summer In The City - Lovin Spoonful
Summertime, Summertime - The Jamies
Summertime Blues - Eddie Cocheran

I am sure there are many more, but due to pressing duty I must hit the "post" button and move on!