Warm weather to begin the week ahead of a stormy Tuesday
We begin the week very warm, but storms and much cooler weather awaits. Check the video forecast for the latest.
TOASTY MONDAY
After a Saturday with a beautiful blue afternoon sky, clouds increased for Easter Sunday. Many areas were close to 80 degrees.
It will be a very mild night tonight. Skies will be mostly cloudy, and low temperatures only drop into the low-60s.
Monday will be dry and warm once again. Skies will be cloudy at times. High temperatures in the lower 80s.
IMPACT DAY TUESDAY
Storms move into Alabama during the second half of the day Tuesday. This will have an impact on your day. A few storms could turn strong with damaging winds as the main threat.
TIMING: Scattered storms will arrive along a cold front during the afternoon and evening. Storms remain in the forecast into the evening but will exit by sunrise on Wednesday. After that, we are dry through the rest of the week.
SEVERE THREAT: This does not look to be a major severe threat for our area, but there will be enough storm energy that a few strong to severe storms are possible. The main threat with any storms that do become strong looks to be from damaging wind gusts. At this point, this does not appear to be a tornado threat but check back for the latest details. The SPC continues to highlight the northern third of the state as the most likely location to get a few severe thunderstorm warnings.
RAIN TOTALS: This likely won't be a big rainmaker for our state. Models have been consistent in keeping rainfall totals less than 1 inch in most locations.
REST OF THE WEEK
Once the storms exit Wednesday morning, the rest of the week will be dry and quiet. Clouds eventually clear during the day Wednesday with highs only reaching the 60s. Cooler air will filter into the state behind the front holding morning lows in the upper 30s both Thursday and Friday morning. Afternoons will be in the 60s through Friday. This is below average for this time of year.
We also look to stay dry next Saturday with temperatures returning to seasonable levels Saturday afternoon. Highs on Saturday will be in the 70s.
GREAT AMERICAN SOLAR ECLIPSE
The total solar eclipse is still over a week away.
In Alabama, Birmingham's eclipse will be a partial one. Only 88% of the sun will be blocked when it reaches its peak around 2 p.m. on April 8.
The big question is, will we get to see this rare event? Forecasting cloud cover for a three-hour window, 10 days away, can be challenging, to say the least.
Our longer-range models don't indicate any storm systems coming through on the day of the eclipse, but do show clouds present. It appears clouds will be building into the state during the day. Both the GFS and European models show a fairly good chance of at least a partly cloudy sky. We will stick with a 60% chance of cloud cover and a 40% chance that the sky is clear. However, don't give up hope just yet. There is still plenty of time to fine-tune the forecast.
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