James Spann has the midweek forecast for Alabama from Alabama NewsCenter on Vimeo.

SHOWERS REMAIN VERY ISOLATED: A very quiet, calm summer weather pattern will persist across Alabama today and through the rest of the week and the weekend. Limited moisture means only a handful of showers or storms during the afternoon and evening; odds of any one spot getting wet are about 15% today, dropping to 5-10% Thursday and Friday. Otherwise, look for partly to mostly sunny days and fair nights. Highs will be in the 88- to 92-degree range today, followed by low 90s Thursday and Friday. Heat levels tick up a bit for the weekend, with highs in the low to mid 90s, and afternoon showers will remain very isolated.

NEXT WEEK: Moisture levels will rise a bit, and we will see an increase in the number of scattered, mostly afternoon and evening showers and thunderstorms through the week. The probability of any one community seeing rain on most days will be 30-40% and highs will be mostly in the low 90s, right at seasonal averages for mid-August in Alabama.

TROPICS: Meteorologists won’t have to worry about pronouncing “Isaias” anymore, since the system is now post-tropical over eastern Canada. At least five people were killed by the system Tuesday over the eastern U.S., and it produced at least eight tornadoes. Today there is one small disturbance southwest of Bermuda, but it is not expected to develop due to dry air surrounding the system and increasing upper winds. The rest of the Atlantic basin is very quiet; tropical storm formation it not expected through the weekend.

The peak of the Atlantic season is now through the end of September; the actual climatological peak comes Sept. 10.

The next storm names are Josephine, Kyle, Laura, Marco, Nana, Omar, Paulette, Rene, Sally, Teddy, Vicky and Wilfred.

ON THIS DATE IN 1980: Allen intensified into a Category 5 hurricane south of Puerto Rico. This made Allen the earliest Category 5 hurricane in the Atlantic on record, but it was later surpassed by Hurricane Emily, which reached that intensity on July 16, 2005. it was the fifth-most-intense Atlantic Hurricane on record in terms of barometric pressure, behind Hurricane Rita, the 1935 Labor Day hurricane, Hurricane Gilbert and Hurricane Wilma. Allen was one of the few hurricanes to reach Category 5 status on the Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale on three separate occasions, and it spent more time as a Category 5 than all but two other Atlantic hurricanes.

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