SUNNY & WARM TODAY; 40s LIKELY BY SATURDAY MORNING… After starting the day in the upper-50s this morning for inland areas of south Alabama, high temperatures will yet again rise into the mid-80s on this Wednesday. The cooler temperatures this morning were in response to a cold front passing by our area late yesterday. Another, separate cold front will move across our region on Friday, paving the way for temperatures to be in the upper-40s across inland areas on Saturday morning. Overall, our streak of nice, mostly sunny, quiet days is set to continue. We are monitoring a tropical wave near the Lesser Antilles, but that likely won’t ever be an issue for the Gulf of Mexico. Below are all of your Wednesday forecast details.
ANOTHER COLD FRONT ARRIVES ON FRIDAY… Mostly sunny conditions are expected today, tomorrow, and on Friday. Temperatures will peak in the 70s on Friday ahead of picture perfect weather for high school football on Friday evening. Game time temperatures at 7PM will be around 70 degrees, falling to the low-60s by the end of each game. Temperatures will be at their coolest point at any time in the next 7 days on Saturday morning when inland areas will be in the upper-40s while coastal areas will likely be in the low-50s.
QUIET WEATHER CONDITIONS EXTEND INTO NEXT WEEK… Mild days and cool nights will remain the story as we go into next week. Mostly sunny skies are expected each day. We note there is a chance we may need to increase rain chances by Tuesday of the upcoming week, but model data is not firm enough to include rain chances just yet.
20% CHANCE THAT A TROPICAL WAVE DEVELOPS INTO A TROPICAL STORM… The tropical wave we have been tracking for several days in the Atlantic Ocean continues to move westward toward the Lesser Antilles. There is a 20% chance this tropical wave increases in organization today and becomes a tropical storm. From NHC: A broad area of low pressure associated with a tropical wave is located about 350 miles east of the Windward Islands. Although this disturbance continues to produce a large area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms, mainly to the east of the center, strong upper-level winds are expected to inhibit development for the next few days. However, the system will move west-northwestward through the end of the week, and produce locally heavy rainfall and strong gusty winds across the central and northern Lesser Antilles on Wednesday, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico on Thursday, and Hispaniola on Friday.
LONG RANGE TROPICAL IDEAS… Some of the longer range weather models have hinted at the idea of some potential tropical mischief forming in the west-central Caribbean Sea in 7-9 days. There is currently no indication of any Gulf impacts with that developing storm, but it is way too early to write that possibility off just yet. It is also way too early to have any type of stress, worry, or even second thought about this. I am simply including this in our text discussion as I am aware there is a possibility you may see the crazy loons posting single model, single run, single worst case scenario images in the days ahead. The big takeaway here is we may have some tropical issues in about a week in the Caribbean, but there is currently no real scenarios pointing to any Gulf impacts. We’ll keep watching. Hurricane season officially ends on November 30.
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See all the details in your Wednesday #rzw forecast video. Have a great day!