By james art Monday evening, October 28, 2024
Forecaster: James Spann
ANOTHER DRY AFTERNOON: Morning clouds gave way to afternoon sun in Alabama; temperatures are mostly in the 70s. Tonight will be clear and pleasant with lows between 56-62 degrees.
The pattern remains dry for most of the state this week, but there are a few exceptions. We’ll mention a chance for isolated showers in the southwest corner of the state Wednesday and Thursday (mainly Mobile and Baldwin counties), but amounts should be very light. And some rain is likely in NW Alabama Thursday night and Friday before a front…places like Muscle Shoals could see about 1/2 inch. Amounts will be lighter in the south and east, with areas south-east of Birmingham most likely to remain dry.
Highs this week will be near 80 degrees, nearly ten degrees above the late October average. Lows will be in the 58-64 degree range.
THE WEEKEND IN ALABAMA: So far, the weekend looks dry with warm afternoons and pleasant nights; highs will remain around 80, with lows not too far from 60.
There is some hope for rain around the middle of next week, around November 6-7.
TROPICS: A broad area of low pressure is likely to develop over the southwestern Caribbean Sea in a few days. After that, gradual development is possible and a tropical depression could form later this week or into the weekend as the system begins to move north or northeast toward the central Caribbean Sea.
The NHC gives this feature a 40 percent chance of developing over the next seven days. If anything does form, it will most likely eventually move northeast, staying south and east of the contiguous US
ON THIS DATE IN 1999: A super typhoon known as Cyclone 05B reached the equivalent of a Category 5 hurricane on this day. This storm is the strongest tropical cyclone ever recorded in the North Indian Ocean. Cyclone 05B hit the Indian state of Odisha near the city of Bhubaneswar on October 29. An estimated 10,000 people will die from this cyclone and 1.67 million people will be left homeless.