Tonight: Temperatures will be warmer than previous nights in the lower to middle 50s with areas north and east of town dropping into the upper 40s. We stay dry with mostly clear skies.
Monday: A warm and pleasant day is in store with temperatures rising into the middle 70s under lots of sunshine. Clouds start to move back in during the evening ahead of our next cold front.
This Week: A cold front will sweep through the area on Tuesday, bringing numerous showers from the morning through the evening hours. This will not be a soaking, prolonged rainfall. Showers will be fairly scattered, decreasing in coverage during the evening once the front pushes through. Rainfall totals will be fairly light from a quarter to half inch across central Alabama.
Following the front, temperatures will quickly fall heading into the second half of the week. In combination with the chillier air, breezy conditions will develop on Wednesday and Thursday. Even with blue-bird skies and sunshine, it will feel quite chilly as highs only reach the 50s Thursday and Friday with morning lows in the middle to upper 30s. Patchy frost is likely a few mornings the second half of this week.
Tracking the Tropics: Tropical Depression Sara continues to weaken as it moves across the Yucatan Peninsula tonight, entering the Gulf of Mexico on Monday as just an area of weak low pressure. The remnants of Sara will get pulled north toward the Louisiana Gulf Coast and swept in front of the cold front, serving no significant threat to central Alabama.
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