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IT’S 71 IN BIRMINGHAM. AND THIS IS THE VIEW THERE OVER REGIONS FIELD YOU CAN SEE A BIT OF BLUE SKY. IT’S GOING TO BE WARM AND HUMID TODAY AHEAD OF ANOTHER ROUND OF STORMS ARRIVING THIS AFTERNOON. HERE’S A PICTURE OF THE RADAR. WE’VE GOT A FEW LIGHT SPOTS OF RAIN BETWEEN WINSTON COUNTY AND CULLMAN COUNTY OVER TOWARD ONEONTA, AND THEN EVEN ONE DOWNPOUR IN A LIGHTNING STRIKE THAT IS MOVING INTO LAMAR COUNTY. AT THIS POINT THROUGH NOON, WE SHOULD BE PRETTY DRY AROUND HERE, BUT I’M ALREADY WATCHING ANOTHER COMPLEX OF STORMS OFF TO THE NORTH AND WEST. IT IS NOW INTO MISSISSIPPI. THIS ONE ABOUT 130 MILES FROM THE ALABAMA STATE LINE. AND IF IT CONTINUES ON THIS TRACK, IT’S MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 45MPH. IT COULD MAKE IT TO LAMAR COUNTY AND PICKENS BY LUNCHTIME, AND THEN INTO THE AFTERNOON HOURS. WE EXPECT THAT COMPLEX OF STORMS TO KIND OF TAKE A SOUTHEASTERN DIVE AND IMPACT SOME OF OUR COMMUNITIES, ESPECIALLY IN WEST ALABAMA, SOME OF THE STORMS THIS AFTERNOON WILL BE HEAVY, JUST LIKE THEY WERE EARLIER IN THE DAY. THE ATMOSPHERE IS GOING TO HAVE TIME TO DESTABILIZE AGAIN, BUT THEY’RE NOT GOING TO BE WIDESPREAD. WHERE THEY DO DEVELOP, IT COULD PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL SHIFTING SOUTH AND EAST HEADING INTO DINNER TIME. AND THEN REALLY AFTER SUNSET, WE SHOULD BE PRETTY DRY AROUND HERE THROUGH THE REST OF SUNDAY NIGHT. ON FIRST WARNING, FUTURE TRACK THIS. THE HIGH RES DATA IS A LITTLE BIT SLOWER. IT IS NOT GETTING THE STORM COMPLEX IN HERE UNTIL CLOSER TO 3:00. BUT JUST KEEP IN MIND IT COULD BE A LITTLE EARLIER THAN THAT OVER LAMAR AND PICKENS COUNTY. HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS SHIFTING SOUTH AND EAST AND THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING, THESE STORMS MAY NOT TAKE THE SAME TRACK THAT THE EARLIER ONES DID, AS THEY SEEK THE MOST UNSTABLE AIR. AND THAT WOULD ESPECIALLY BE DOWN TO THE SOUTH. AND SO YOU CAN SEE THESE ARE VERY HEAVY OVER HALE COUNTY AND PERRY COUNTY CLOSER TOWARD DALLAS AND THEN DOWN TOWARD COOSA THIS EVENING, SHIFTING SOUTH AND EAST. AND LIKE I SAID, BY 7 P.M. AND ON INTO THE NIGHTTIME HOURS, WE SHOULD BE PRETTY QUIET. I DO WANT TO GIVE YOU THE FIRST WARNING THAT TUESDAY IS AN IMPACT DAY, BECAUSE THE RISK FOR SEVERE STORMS IS A LITTLE BIT ELEVATED. THERE IS A LEVEL THREE OUT OF FIVE RISK OVER NORTHWEST ALABAMA. THAT’S AN ENHANCED RISK. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THIS WAY AND BRING SOME STORMS BY TUESDAY NIGHT AND INTO WEDNESDAY MORNING. SOME OF THOSE COULD BE PRETTY NASTY WITH DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND HAIL. POSSIBLE TORNADO THREAT IS NOT ZERO, BUT THAT IS NOT HIGHEST ON THE LIST, SO KEEP AN EYE ON TUESDAY. WE’LL KEEP YOU UPDATED. AND THEN AFTER WE GET THROUGH THAT ROUND OF STORMS, REALLY NICE CHANGES COMING OUR WAY HEADING INTO THE LATTER HALF OF THE WEEK, WE’LL HAVE COOLER AIR IN PLACE THE MORNINGS AND THE AFTERNOONS. NICE WITH LOWER HUMIDITY, HIGH TEMPERATURES ON THURSDAY IN THE LOW AND MID 70S, AND THEN COOL MORNINGS IN THE 50S, PERHAPS EVEN SOME LOW 50S. WE WERE THINKING SOME UPPER 40S ACROSS THE HIGHER TERRAIN LATER IN THE WEEK, BUT DEFINITELY SOME LO