Good morning! Our early April “Heat Wave” continues. We were just shy of a Record High with 87 Thursday. The warmth continues – with mid 80’s likely again today and Saturday, before yet another big cool-down. Spotty, random, scattered showers and a few thunderstorms will pop up mostly in the afternoon and evening hours through Saturday. The best chance of showers and storms will be late Saturday night and Easter Sunday morning along and ahead of a cool front. Sunday and Monday will be several degrees cooler. Lows fall back to the 40’s for several nights starting Sunday night. Here’s my brief video forecast discussion.
TODAY: Limited sunshine, continued warm. High near 85. The risk of Random isolated mostly late afternoon and evening showers & storms is very small. 20% or less.
TONIGHT: Partly cloudy and mild. Low 64.
NEXT FEW DAYS: Highs will be in the 80’s each day through Saturday. Lows will be mostly in the lower 60’s. Spotty, random, scattered showers and a few thunderstorms will pop up mostly in the afternoon and evening hours again Saturday. The best rain chance will along and ahead of a weekend frontal system, especially late Saturday night and Easter Sunday morning. Then it will turn much cooler behind the Easter weekend front. Lows fall back to the 40’s for several nights starting Sunday night. Monday’s high will barely reach 70.
Here’s the rainfall outlook next 5 days. Notice the heaviest projected rainfall will be across the northwest half of the state.
The 10 Day model Blend Temperature Trend. Mid 80’s through Saturday. Then much cooler behind the Easter weekend front. Lows fall back to the 40’s starting Sunday night. (Normal hi/lo 76/50)
BEACH FORECAST: Risk of Weekend scattered showers and thunderstorm risk during Easter weekend. Temperatures will be a little below normal. Red flags. High Risk Current Risk.
POLLEN FORECAST: The pollen forecast remains in the high range each day.
EPIC TORNADO ANNIVERSARY: One of the worst Super Tornado outbreaks in US history happened on this date: April 3/4, 1974. There were 149 confirmed tornadoes in multiple states from Ohio to Alabama with 335 deaths. There were a RECORD number of 30 Violent EF4’s and EF 5’s.
🌪️ Breakdown of tornadoes in Alabama
From official National Weather Service data:
- Total tornadoes: 10
- Violent tornadoes (F4–F5): 4
- F5 tornadoes: 3 (extremely rare and most destructive)
- Injuries: 927
📍 Where most of the deaths happened
The fatalities were concentrated in north Alabama, especially from a few catastrophic tornadoes. Guinn, Alabama was hit TWICE.
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–Rich