Weather Aware for dangerous heat on the 4th of July, Very stormy on Friday

Weather Aware Through Thursday Evening for Heat

Tonight : partly cloudy and muggy. Low temperatures will be in the lower to middle 70s.

4th of July : Thursday will stay hot and humid, but we will have a better chance for scattered storms during the afternoon and early evening. High temperatures will be in the middle 90s and the heat index of 105-110°. The storms should end in time for the Fireworks around 9 PM for Central Alabama with muggy temperatures in the 80s.

Friday will remain hot and humid ahead of a cold front moving into Alabama from the northwest. This front will set off scattered to numerous showers and storms. A few storms could be strong with heavy rain and gusty winds. High temperatures will be in the lower 90s, and the heat index will be 100-105° before it storms.

Weekend Outlook : The cold front will stall across South-Central Alabama this weekend, bringing us fewer storms. Saturday and Sunday will be partly cloudy, hot, and humid with a few showers and storms each day. High temperatures will be in the lower 90s on Saturday and the middle 90s on Sunday. The heat index will be around 100-105°.

Tracking the Tropics : Powerful Category 4 Hurricane Beryl continues to brush by the south coast of Jamaica with winds of 140 mph. It will move WNW across the Central Caribbean to the NW Caribbean over the next few days. Beryl will battle strong westerly wind shear, slowly weakening the hurricane down to a high-end Category 1 by the time it makes landfall on the Yucatan Peninsula early Friday morning. It will track over land and into the Bay of Campeche where it is forecast to weaken into a tropical storm. Forecast calls for the storm to regain hurricane status before another landfall near the North Mexico/Texas border on Sunday. Eventually, the inland remnants of Beryl could bring rain to the Gulf Coast States early next week.

Invest 96L, a tropical wave, is producing disorganized thunderstorms. Development, if any, will be slow to occur over the next few days as the wave battles Saharan Dust and is in the wake of Beryl. This system will bring rain to the Lesser Antilles later this week. NHC is giving this system a low chance of developing.

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