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.
Not only was it cloudy in many locations Wednesday morning, many saw rain that was heavy for at least a short period of time. The river region was one of those areas. A small cluster of rain tracked northeast from about Fort Deposit to Kowaliga between 7 and 10AM. Locations in between like Montgomery, Prattville, Wetumpka, and Eclectic saw rain as well.
It was another cloudy and for some wet morning across central and south Alabama. If it’s any consolation, much of the southeastern United States experienced similar weather. The culprit? A stalled front stretching from the Carolinas to Louisiana. With the front still nearby through at least Wednesday, expect our cloudy sky with high rain chances to continue.
Seems as though dry and sunny summer mornings are hard to come by. Monday morning definitely wasn’t one, with widespread clouds and plenty of rain in our area as the sun rose. Showers and storms remain numerous to widespread throughout the rest of the day.
