A Couple of Nice Days, Rain Returns Friday
TODAY/TOMORROW: The front is pushing out of Alabama this morning and a drier air mass will settle into the state for these two days. Both days will feature more sun than clouds with lows in the lower 40s, and highs in the lower to mid 70s. Very nice weather for the second week of March.
FRIDAY: Moist air returns Friday, and we will have the risk of a few scattered showers and possibly a thunderstorm with a high around 70 degrees with an upper-level feature that works rapidly across the Southeast. Severe weather is not expected, and this feature will exit rapidly Friday night.
WEEKEND WEATHER: An area of low pressure will move out of the Southern Plains, into the Southeast and is actually expected to track right across North Alabama. It will be accompanied by a cold front and we will see widespread rain and storms move into Alabama for the second half of Saturday and into early Sunday. We could have to deal with some strong storms, but with the surface low moving right on top of us, it is just not the right set up for severe storms in Alabama. The front will swing through the state early Sunday, and then cooler, drier air returns to the state. The sky becomes mostly sunny, and the high will fall back into the upper 50s and lower 60s on the back of a cool north breeze.
INTO NEXT WEEK: Monday looks cool, dry, but beyond that, model madness and inconsistency abound. The pattern looks to remain active, meaning the threat of rain and storm every two or three days, pretty typical of March in Alabama.
Have a wonderful Wednesday!
Ryan
