First Alert: Pushing 90° before storms arrive Friday

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - The summer-like feeling will continue for the next couple of days as heat and humidity rule the forecast. A shift in the overall weather pattern arrives by Friday and it could impact your weekend plans... tonight we will see mild conditions and patchy fog. Tomorrow it will be partly cloudy with highs in the upper 80s, but many will see their first 90° day of 2022 Thursday afternoon with mostly dry conditions!

A cold front will push closer Thursday night, perhaps bringing some scattered showers and a few storms before sunrise Friday. The front itself pushes through on Friday, which is when our highest rain and storm coverage will be. It won’t rain all day, but the chance of getting wet is high.

Some of the storms will be strong to severe and be capable of producing strong to damaging wind gusts, hail to the size of quarters and heavy rain. The tornado threat, while not zero, is very, very low.

Behind the front it will turn a little less humid for the weekend and early next week. We’ve hit the time of year where the humidity doesn’t go away, but it can drop at least a little bit behind fronts.

With the lower humidity, conditions will dry out this weekend just in time for Mother’s Day. We can’t totally rule out a couple of showers or storms on Saturday, but it should be mainly dry. Mother’s Day itself will be great!

Dry weather rolls on into next week with afternoon high temperatures going from the mid-80s this weekend to the upper 80s by Monday. Overnights stay in the 60s even with the upcoming drop in mugginess.

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