RADAR CHECK: Most of the showers on radar this afternoon are across Alabama in a broad zone from Mobile to Dothan. We also note a few showers over East Alabama around Opelika. The rest of the state is enjoying a good supply of sunshine; temperatures remain well above average in the 72-82 degree range. At one point today Mobile soared to 85 degrees, the warmest temperature on record for the month of February.
Showers will expand northward tonight into the northern half of the state as a surface front lifts northward as a warm front.
THE ALABAMA WEEKEND: That front gets a good southward push tomorrow. Showers over North Alabama early in the day will shift quickly into the southern part of the state. A thunderstorm is possible tomorrow afternoon across South Alabama, where SPC has defined a low end “marginal risk” (level 1/5) of severe thunderstorms, but with weak wind fields the severe risk is very low.
There will be a large temperature spread across Alabama due to the front; during the afternoon the range will be from the low 50s over the Tennessee Valley to the low 80s over the far southern part of the state…