DRY AUGUST AFTERNOON: Not a single shower appears across Alabama this afternoon with a sunny sky; temperatures are in the upper 80s and low 90s. Tonight will be clear and pleasant, with lows mostly in the 60s; some of the cooler spots over north Alabama could reach the upper 50s.

Most of Alabama will be dry through the weekend with mostly sunny days and fair nights. Highs will be mostly between 90 and 95 degrees.

Heat levels continue to rise next week, and by Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday we project highs between 96 and 101 degrees. For some, it will be the hottest weather so far this summer, and cooling showers will be very hard to find with a strong upper ridge overhead. We will bring in a chance of isolated showers and thunderstorms Thursday and Friday, but most places will stay dry.

FOOTBALL WEATHER: We’ll have great weather for tonight’s high school football games across Alabama, a clear sky with temperatures falling from the mid 80s at kickoff into the 70s during the second half.

TROPICS: All remains very calm across the Atlantic basin; tropical storm formation is not expected for the rest of August. Hurricane season, however, continues through the end of November.

ON THIS DATE IN 1933: A hurricane made landfall near Nags Head, North Carolina, and tracked up the Chesapeake Bay. The Chesapeake-Potomac hurricane moved over Norfolk, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. A 7-foot tide flooded businesses in Norfolk. The hurricane was described in the American Meteorological Society’s August 1933 weather review as “one of the most severe storms that have ever visited the Middle Atlantic Coast.”

ON THIS DATE IN 1992: While south Florida residents were preparing for Hurricane Andrew, folks in western Montana were dealing with early-season snowfall. Amounts included 8.3 inches in Great Falls, 6.2 inches in Helena and 5.1 inches in Cut Bank. This was the first significant snowfall on record in western Montana in August.

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