48 First Alert: Scattered downpours for Tuesday afternoon

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) – Good Tuesday morning. We have overcast skies and damp conditions to start off the day, some areas of isolated fog will be expected with morning temperatures in the low to middle 70s.

A few stray showers will be possible through mid-morning so have the umbrella close by just to play it safe. Skies will start to clear a bit leaving us partly to mostly cloudy into the afternoon, Highs today will reach the low to middle 80s. We will see more scattered rain showers and embedded thunderstorms developing into the afternoon with threats of additional heavy rainfall, frequent lightning, and some brief gusty winds. Models continue to favor areas along and east of I-65 for best rain coverage.

Skies stay partly cloudy overnight with lows dropping into the middle 60s by Wednesday morning, a stray shower or two will be possible overnight. Drier air starts to make its way into the Tennessee Valley by Wednesday leading to thinning cloud cover. Highs on Wednesday will be in the middle 80s with a gusty north-northeast wind between 10 to 20 miles per hour. Thursday and Friday should be sunny and dry with temps remaining in the middle 80s.

Labor Day weekend will also be sunny and dry but hotter with high temperatures in the upper 80s to lower 90s.

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