Wednesday morning featured a mix of sun and clouds. A handful of isolated showers formed prior to midday mainly across far south Alabama. However, more isolated and relatively small downpours form elsewhere throughout the afternoon and early evening. Overall, today’s rain chance remains small. The heat remains quite manageable for this time of year, with highs in the upper 80s…
Tuesday morning was sunny for some but cloudy for others. While a there were some showers in south Alabama early this morning, there’s no rain at midday. We could see some shower or thunderstorm development this afternoon or early evening.
The extreme heat of last week and the weekend are behind us. However, we trade that for more clouds with a high chance for rain Monday afternoon and evening. Today’s rain comes courtesy in part to a rare summertime front pushing into south Alabama.
Friday is another sweltering day for central and south Alabama. It’s the fourth day in a row with a heat advisory in place. Afternoon heat index temperatures range from 104° to 110°. Actual air temperatures top out in the upper 90s. A couple spots could reach 100°.
Oppressive heat and humidity continues today. By 11AM, the heat index was already well above 100° in most locations. Air temperatures were in the low to mid 90s by noon. A heat advisory continues until Friday evening across all of our area.
Some clouds and areas of fog greeted us after sunrise Wednesday morning. The early morning clouds held temperatures a bit cooler at midday today compared to midday Tuesday. However, sunshine was abundant at midday, and temperatures and the heat index are off to the races this afternoon.
It seems we are in the midst of our hottest week of the year so far. The first heat advisory of the summer remains in effect until 7PM this evening. Peak heat indices could be as high as 107° this afternoon. High temperatures themselves range from the low to mid 90s.
It may have felt like you walked into a wall of humidity as soon as you stepped out the door this morning. The high humidity today lent itself to heat index values in the mid 90s to low 100s by midday.
It was a hot and humid Friday afternoon with scattered to numerous showers and storms about our area. Montgomery and the river region received rain early in the afternoon, but it didn’t take long for sunshine to return. Montgomery’s temperatures fell to 75° at 2PM, but rebounded to 85° at 4PM. Rain-free locations were in the low to mid 90s during the late afternoon.
Thursday morning featured some sunshine and was rain-free through the mid morning. However, isolated showers started to dot the radar at midday. Expect these to become scattered to numerous through the course of the afternoon and early evening.
