Increasing rain chances and cooler temperatures ahead

Monday & Tuesday: Warm and humid days with scattered storms developing in the afternoon and evening. These storms will be slow-movers so a few locations could receive some locally heavy rain. Temperatures will manage to reach the lower to middle 90s outside of any rain with heat index values in the 100-105° range.

Rest Of The Week: The pattern becomes quite a bit more active in terms of rain chances as we move into the middle and second half of the week. Tuesday will bring another chance for scattered afternoon storms, typical for July in Alabama. However, in the middle of Summer, we don’t normally see cold fronts as strong as what is currently forecast to dive into the South later this week. While the front is not going to fully pass us in central Alabama, it will stall out just to our north, providing plenty of lift and moisture to produce numerous showers and storms Wednesday through Friday.

Thursday appears to be one of our wetter days as the front continues to inch closer. The ridge of high pressure responsible for providing the hot temperatures this past weekend will retreat to the southwest Atlantic, just off the southeast coast of the US. As that dome of high pressure builds over Bermuda, another high will continue to build in the western US, allowing for a trough to become blocked in between these highs and keeping the stalled front around heading into next weekend. This pattern will become conducive for higher-end rain chances, which will also lower our temperatures into the mid-upper 80s extending into the upcoming weekend. Many of the farmers locally could use the rain, so this can be viewed as welcomed relief.

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