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Sunny on Saturday, Soaker on Sunday

Heavy rain falls on Alabama Sunday

Sunny on Saturday, Soaker on Sunday

Heavy rain falls on Alabama Sunday

FORECAST. IT SEEMS LIKE WHEN WE HEAD INTO THE WEEKEND, YOU KNOW, THE GOOD AND A LITTLE BIT OF THE BAD. I THINK BACK TO LAST WEEKEND. SATURDAY WAS NICE. SUNDAY NOT SO MUCH. AND IT WILL BE A REPEAT OF THAT THIS WEEK. SOME OF US WILL BE GETTING RAIN LATE SATURDAY NIGHT, BUT THE SKY STILL SHOULD LOOK SOMEWHAT LIKE THIS DURING THE DAY ON SATURDAY AT EIGHT REGIONS FIELD SUNNY SKY, PERFECTLY BLUE OVERHEAD, JUST A BEAUTIFY ALL AFTERNOON AROUND HERE. CURRENT TEMPERATURES ARE IN THE LOWER FIFTIES AND IT LOOKS LIKE WE’RE GOING TO BE THERE FOR A COUPLE OF HOURS BEFORE THINGS START TO DROP OFF A BIT. WELL, HERE’S WHERE WE ARE NOW. 52 COLMAN, 55 TUSCALOOSA. 52 AT ALABASTER. 51 AT ANNISTON. IT’S IN THE UPPER FORTIES OVER TOWARD THE EAST, AND EVEN ALEXANDER IS ONLY AT 49 RIGHT NOW AS THE DRY COOLER TENDS TO HANG ON IN EAST ALABAMA JUST A BIT LONGER THAN EVERYWHERE ELSE. FROSTY AGAIN TONIGHT WILL BE IN THE UPPER TWENTIES AND LOW THIRTIES, PARTLY CLOUDY TOMORROW. CLOUDS ARE GRADUALLY INCREASING THROUGHOUT THE DAY. AND THEN AS WE GET INTO SUNDAY AFTERNOON, THAT’S WHEN THE RAIN BEGINS TO SET IN AGAIN. AND TOTAL RAINFALL SUNDAY THROUGH MIDNIGHT INTO EARLY MONDAY MORNING. I THINK ABOUT 1 TO 2 INCHES TUSCALOOSA. BIRMINGHAM. ALABASTER. SYLACAUGA. CLANTON. CENTREVILLE. GREENSBORO. DEMOPOLIS. AND THEN WE GET INTO AN AREA HERE WHERE WE COULD HAVE MORE THAN TWO INCHES OF RAIN CLOSE TO HIGHWAY 80 FROM DEMOPOLIS DOWN TOWARD UNIONTOWN, SELMA, MONTGOMERY, EVEN PARTS OF AUTAUGA COUNTY AND ELMORE COUNTY. AND THE FARTHER NORTH YOU GO, THE RAIN RUNS INTO THAT SLIGHTLY DRIER AIR HERE ACROSS NORTHEAST ALABAMA AND THAT WILL CERTAINLY HELP TO CUT DOWN ON THE OVERALL AMOUNT. SO SATURDAY, VERY LIMITED AMOUNT OF RAIN, IF ANYTHING AT ALL, ESPECIALLY THE CENTRAL PART OF THE STATE. AND IF YOU’RE TRAVELING NORTH, YOU’RE GOING TO RUN INTO SOME BY TOMORROW EVENING, SUNDAY, IT RAINS EVERYWHERE AFTER LUNCHTIME, IN PARTICULAR FROM BIRMINGHAM SOUTH AND FOR MONDAY AND TUESDAY WE START TO THIN OUT AND THEN THE SHOWERS WILL COME RIGHT BACK. SO AS FAR AS TIMING ON THAT, WELL, NOT TONIGHT, NOT TOMORROW, SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND SUNDAY EVENING IS WHEN THE BETTER PART OF THIS WET WEATHER IS GOING TO START MOVING THROUGH HERE. SOME HIGH THEN CLOUDS WILL START INCREASING FROM THE SOUTHWEST AS WELL. STORM SYSTEM, NOT ALL THAT APPARENT. AND LOOKING FROM SPACE RIGHT NOW ON THE SATELLITE, BUT YOU’LL BEGIN TO SEE THE RETURN FLOW BUILD UP FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO. LOT OF HUMIDITY HERE AND IT’S NOT HUMIDITY THAT YOU FEEL NECESSARILY NOT LIKE SUMMERTIME HUMIDITY, BUT IT’S ENOUGH THAT IT WILL SUPPLY A LOT OF RAIN HERE ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST. AND WITH THIS GOING NOWHERE OVER THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS, IT’S LIKELY THAT WE GET A WHOLE LOT OF RAIN AROUND HERE. SO LOOK AT THIS IN THE MORNING. WE’RE DROPPING TO 32 TOMORROW AFTERNOON, A PARTLY CLOUDY SKY, THE HIGH CLOSE TO 57, THE SEVEN DAY FORECAST. LOT OF RAIN HERE, BUT NOT RAINING EVERY SINGLE DAY. TOMORROW, DRY SUNDAY, WET MONDAY IS DRY. THE HIGH AT 61. AND THEN TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, A GOOD CHANCE OF SOME RAIN. AND YOU’LL NOTICE THESE NUMBERS HERE, THOSE HIGH TEMPERATURES YESTERDAY WE HAD FORTIES. TODAY WE HAVE FIFTIES BECAUSE THERE’S AN ARCTIC FRONT NEARBY AND AS IT WAFFLES BACK AND FORTH, THERE’LL BE PERIODS WHERE WHERE COLD AIR PERIODS ARE WERE MILDER. SO JUST EXPECT A CHILLY SETUP THROUGH THE MI
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Sunny on Saturday, Soaker on Sunday

Heavy rain falls on Alabama Sunday

Clouds thicken on Saturday, and a soaking rain sets in again on Sunday to kick off a wet week ahead. Check the video forecast for the latest.WEEKEND WEATHERIt got cold early Friday! Gadsden and Fort Payne both hit 23°F, Bessemer got to 24°F, and Birmingham-Shuttlesworth dropped to 27°F. It does not get that cold again for a while as a wetter, milder pattern begins for the weekend and first part of next week.Expect one more cold night in the 30s for most of North and Central Alabama, and we warm up a bit more Saturday: highs in the middle to upper 50s with a southwest wind around 10 to 20 miles per hour and a gradually graying sky as high thin clouds move in from the west.Those high clouds signal a change in the weather for Sunday: back to rain. Some of that rain gets heavy at times. Showers begin late Saturday evening over Northwest Alabama and progressively spread across the rest of the state throughout the day Sunday. Expect rain essentially from start to finish: a very wet day with temperatures holding in the 50s.A stripe of significant rainfall sets up over the southern half of the state where as much as 2” adds up near US 80 (Demopolis to Montgomery). Jefferson and Shelby Counties get around ½” to 1” on average, and we expect less than an inch of rain by Sunday night northeast of Birmingham through Cullman, Gadsden, Anniston, Fort Payne and Scottsboro.SEVEN DAY FORECASTRain slides out on Monday, but clouds hang around for a while. Next week features precious little sunshine whatsoever and a whole lot more rain.An Arctic cold front passes through on Tuesday, but by the time that air gets to Central Alabama it no longer really has much ‘punch’ to it: temperatures in the 40s and 50s for highs under a mostly cloudy sky Tuesday and Wednesday.Showers become likely Tuesday, and heavier rain sets in on Wednesday and Thursday as another cold front moves into the region. In general, 2-3 inches of rain fall over most of Alabama through next Friday: almost all of it liquid. There will be some chance of wintry weather (mainly a mix) in Tennessee, but we do not expect that to have a major impact on Alabama weather next week.Get the free WVTM 13 app and turn on the alerts for the latest weather updates.—STAY WEATHER AWAREGet the free WVTM 13 app and turn on the alerts for the latest weather updates.For the latest Birmingham weather information and central Alabama's certified most accurate forecast, watch WVTM 13 News.Current Weather ConditionsHourly Forecast | 10-Day ForecastInteractive RadarBirmingham SkycamsLive Doppler RadarSign Up For Email Weather AlertsDownload the WVTM 13 AppDon't forget to follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Clouds thicken on Saturday, and a soaking rain sets in again on Sunday to kick off a wet week ahead. Check the video forecast for the latest.

WEEKEND WEATHER

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It got cold early Friday! Gadsden and Fort Payne both hit 23°F, Bessemer got to 24°F, and Birmingham-Shuttlesworth dropped to 27°F. It does not get that cold again for a while as a wetter, milder pattern begins for the weekend and first part of next week.

Expect one more cold night in the 30s for most of North and Central Alabama, and we warm up a bit more Saturday: highs in the middle to upper 50s with a southwest wind around 10 to 20 miles per hour and a gradually graying sky as high thin clouds move in from the west.

Those high clouds signal a change in the weather for Sunday: back to rain. Some of that rain gets heavy at times. Showers begin late Saturday evening over Northwest Alabama and progressively spread across the rest of the state throughout the day Sunday. Expect rain essentially from start to finish: a very wet day with temperatures holding in the 50s.

A stripe of significant rainfall sets up over the southern half of the state where as much as 2” adds up near US 80 (Demopolis to Montgomery). Jefferson and Shelby Counties get around ½” to 1” on average, and we expect less than an inch of rain by Sunday night northeast of Birmingham through Cullman, Gadsden, Anniston, Fort Payne and Scottsboro.

SEVEN DAY FORECAST

Rain slides out on Monday, but clouds hang around for a while. Next week features precious little sunshine whatsoever and a whole lot more rain.

An Arctic cold front passes through on Tuesday, but by the time that air gets to Central Alabama it no longer really has much ‘punch’ to it: temperatures in the 40s and 50s for highs under a mostly cloudy sky Tuesday and Wednesday.

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Showers become likely Tuesday, and heavier rain sets in on Wednesday and Thursday as another cold front moves into the region. In general, 2-3 inches of rain fall over most of Alabama through next Friday: almost all of it liquid. There will be some chance of wintry weather (mainly a mix) in Tennessee, but we do not expect that to have a major impact on Alabama weather next week.

7-Day Forecast with temperatures for central Alabama
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