Hot and Dry Weather Returns

Saturday (High 90, Low 60): Mostly sunny. Cool in the morning, seasonably hot in the afternoon. 

Sunday (High 93, Low 63): Sunny. Cool in the morning, seasonably hot in the afternoon. 

Monday (High 95, Low 65): Sunny. Cool in the morning, hot in the afternoon. 

Tuesday (High 98, Low 67): Mostly sunny. 

Wednesday (High 99, Low 70): Mostly sunny. 

Thursday (High 97, Low 71): Partly cloudy with a 20% chance of showers/thunderstorms. 

Friday (High 96, Low 73): Partly cloudy with a 20% chance of showers/thunderstorms. 

Trivia note: This is actually the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. 

While our tropics are quiet again for now, they usually ramp up in September. 

At 1 PM skies are fair (a.k.a "sunny) in Cullman. The temperature is 84 degrees. The dewpoint-temperature is 59, making the relative humidity 43%. Winds are light and variable at 6 miles per hour. The pressure is 30.25 inches and falling slowly. This morning's Low temperature was 68 degrees at about 6:30 or so this morning. 

And we're just not in a very exciting weather pattern. I thought I spied a lot of cirrocumulus clouds on the satellite imagery above, but the simple exercise of looking outside at the actual sky yielded a different result: Those are clearly cumulus clouds I can see without a satellite. With just my peepers. 

We have a stationary front down along the Gulf Coast, the focus for those showers and thunderstorms you saw above in Florida. 

Out West is a ridge of strong high pressure, sometimes called a heat bubble this time of the year, and that will affect us as we get into next week. Hey - don't shoot the messenger. I'm only in sales, not production. And really it's not even sales. More like just passing along the news of what it's gonna' do. 

Looks like today and tomorrow the High will get up to about 90 degrees with mostly sunny skies. Tonight into tomorrow morning, the air is still dry enough, our Low should be near 60. So if you walk a dog in the morning or anything like that, should be quite comfortable, maybe even a little nippy since we're not used to those kinds of mornings until this wave of them here lately. I can think of a lot of nights and mornings where a good walk felt really muggy this summer. 

Even going into Sunday, that high pressure is going to set up strongly over the Southeast, the Tennessee and Ohio River Valleys. High should rebound to the lower 90's and Low into the lower 60's. Not expecting much if any rain in the region, not even much in the way of clouds. 

Monday again looks mostly sunny and hot, the High perhaps edging into the mid-90's by then, Low in the mid-60's. 

Then Tuesday looks like a pretty good scorcher. The High should make it into the upper 90's, close to 100 degrees, the Low in the upper 60's. 

Then Wednesday again, close to 100 for the High, Low near 70. 

Thursday, might see a few more clouds, probably still no rain, High in upper 90's, Low around 70. 

By Friday the ridge should release its hold just enough to allow southerly flow from the Gulf of Mexico, enough to include a chance for isolated shower or thunderstorm again. Guess we could see something isolated Thursday too, but I'm not optimistic on rain chances for this forecast period. 

Our rainfall overall should be light and sporadic over the next seven days, pretty typical for this time of year. I sort of hope this coming week is our last heat wave, but I don't wanna' jinx it. Guess I just did. But the weather doesn't care, it just does its thing anyway.