Our Bloomington streak is over. We’re headed down to Alabama as we reach the dog days of summer. Get ready to sweat.
At 253PM, ET, Montgomery was reporting a temperature of 90 degrees with clear skies. There was a smattering of isolated thunderstorms in southern Alabama, thanks to the remnants of a cold front trying to move into the area. There isn’t really a cold front in the traditional sense, but really just a change in wind direction. This may lead to less haze in the morning tomorrow, but isn’t a particularly significant change to the airmass.
Of future concern is an area of low pressure in the Great Lakes. It’s not particularly dynamic, as is often the case with summer time low pressure, but it is tapping into a wealth of heat and humidity. Quite a bit of rain and thunder is expected in the southern Great Lakes and Lower Ohio Valley through the day today, and will flare up again tomorrow evening when it reaches the western slope of the Appalachians. A band of showers and storms is expected to sink south overnight to southern Alabama, with some showers and storms becoming possible for Montgomery in the morning. A tropical invest moving through the Greater Antilles will arrive in the eastern Gulf in the evening on Saturday, and may inflame the boundary again, but by this point, it should be south of Montgomery
Tomorrow – Very hot, High 99, Low 79
Saturday – Isolated showers in the morning, then partly cloudy late, High 95, Low 78
TWC: Tomorrow – Mostly sunny skies. Hot and humid. Late rain High 98, Low 77
Saturday – Mostly sunny skies. A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible High 95, Low 77
AW: Tomorrow – Mostly sunny and hot; a thunderstorm in spots in the afternoon; danger of dehydration and heatstroke if outside for extended periods of time High 98, Low 76
Saturday – Periods of clouds and sun with a heavy thunderstorm in the afternoon; thunderstorms can cause flash flooding High 97, Low 74
NWS: Tomorrow – A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 4pm. Sunny and hot High 98, Low 77
Saturday – A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Sunny High 95, Low 77
WB: Tomorrow – Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. High 97, Low 78
Saturday – Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon, High 96, Low 78
WN: Tomorrow – Partly cloudy with isolated storms, High 97, Low 77
Saturday – Partly cloudy with isolated storms, High 94, Low 78
CLI: Tomorrow – Sunny, High 98, Low 77
Saturday – Light rain showers, High 95, Low 75
Well, I said you were going to sweat. We’ll see how the showers pop up tomorrow, but I feel good about some stability building in. The wild card will be how much rain falls on Saturday.
