Midday Nowcast: Sunny Days into the Easter Weekend
A sun-filled sky covers Alabama today and after the chilly morning, with lows in the upper 30s and lower 40s, afternoon highs are surging into the upper 60s and lower 70s.
A sun-filled sky covers Alabama today and after the chilly morning, with lows in the upper 30s and lower 40s, afternoon highs are surging into the upper 60s and lower 70s.
DRY DAYS: Alabama’s weather will stay dry through the Easter weekend with mostly sunny days and fair nights. Highs today will be in the 60s for much of the state, but we rise into the 70s tomorrow and Saturday. On Sunday, most places will see a high at or just over 80 degrees.
PLEASANT SPRING DAY: With a partly to mostly sunny sky, temperatures are in the 60s across North Alabama, with 70s over the southern half of the state. Tonight will be fair and cool with a low in the 40s.
A good-looking Wednesday is underway across Alabama with plenty of sunshine and blue sky. There are a few areas of clouds, but overall, the sky is featuring more sunshine.
CALM DAYS: The sky is mostly clear across Alabama early this morning with temperatures in the 40s and 50s, but clouds are hanging tough over the southeast corner of the state. Rain will remain east of our state today; expect a partly sunny sky with a high in the 60s for most communities this afternoon.
RADAR CHECK: We have a few lingering showers over parts of North and East Alabama; those will be out of the state soon. The sky is clearing over the western counties, and the clearing will work its way eastward tonight as dry air arrives.
Rain continues to fall across much of Alabama today, and it remains quite breezy due to pressure gradient (non-thunderstorm) winds. The winds will be diminishing through the afternoon hours, and the rain will gradually end from west to east across Alabama today as drier air begins to work into the Alabama.
RADAR CHECK: We have a large mass of rain over northern and western part of Alabama this morning gradually moving eastward. There are a few embedded thunderstorms, but as we expected there were no severe storms overnight. Gradient winds (non-thunderstorm) remain high east of the rain, but those winds will diminish later this morning.
No tornadoes have been reported in Mississippi. There have been sporadic reports of wind damage.
TONIGHT: A band of showers and thunderstorms will push into Alabama late tonight, mostly after midnight. Thankfully there will be little to no surface based instability available over the northern 2/3 of the state, so the line of storms will be weakening, and the threat of severe storms remains low in our state.