James Spann has a deja vu weather forecast for Alabama from Alabama NewsCenter on Vimeo.

HOT, HUMID, A FEW AFTERNOON STORMS: Alabama’s weather won’t change much today. It will be partly sunny, hot and humid with random, scattered showers and thunderstorms mostly between 2 and 10 p.m. Odds of any one spot getting wet this afternoon are 35-45%, and the high will be at or just over 90 degrees. The average high for Birmingham on July 26 is 91.

Afternoon storms will thin out a bit Wednesday and Thursday as the air aloft will be a tad warmer and the air mass a little more stable. Afternoon temperatures reach the low to mid 90s both days.

FRIDAY AND THE WEEKEND: A surface front will drift down into Tennessee, becoming nearly stationary not too far from the Alabama state line. This will bring an increase in the coverage of showers and storms for the northern half of the state Friday and over the weekend. We still can’t promise rain for everyone, and distribution will be uneven, but most communities across north and central Alabama should see a few good downpours across these three days. The sky will be occasionally cloudy and highs will be between 88 and 92 degrees. The southern half of the state will be a little hotter and a littler drier over the weekend.

NEXT WEEK: We will broad brush the forecast with the standard summer formula through the week — partly sunny, hot, humid days with scattered, mostly afternoon and evening showers and thunderstorms. Highs will be mostly in the low 90s.TROPICS: The Atlantic basin is very quiet and tropical storm formation is not expected at least for the next five days. The remaining names for the season are Danielle, Earl, Fiona, Gaston, Hermine, Ian, Julia, Karl, Lisa, Martin, Nicole, Owen, Paula, Richard, Shary, Tobias, Virginie and Walter. Tropical cyclone names are maintained and updated through a strict procedure by an international committee of the World Meteorological Organization (we don’t name ’em … we just forecast them).

ON THIS DATE IN 1921: On the summit of Mt. Wellenkuppe, in Switzerland, the temperature reached 100 degrees by 10 a.m. The summit had an elevation of 12,830 feet and was covered in snow.

ON THIS DATE IN 1979: Tropical Storm Claudette stalled over Alvin, Texas, inundating the town with 45 inches of rain in 42 hours. The total included 43 inches in 24 hours, which is the maximum 24-hour rainfall in American history.

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