MONTGOMERY, AL (WSFA) - The heat continues to build across central and south Alabama today... after a warm start to our Thursday morning, we are watching temperatures as they will likely spike into the low and mid 90s later this afternoon. Thankfully, all of the hot and somewhat humid air could provide a few pop-up showers or storms, but coverage won’t be overwhelming; that means the majority of the area won’t see any relief from the heat.

There is a roughly 10% shot of a random downpour this afternoon. I wouldn’t hold your breath when it comes to rain, because our forecast remains dry now through the holiday weekend and will likely even extend into the middle of next week.

The core of the heat wave builds Friday and into early next week... this is when we expect to challenge and beat daily record highs.

Friday temperatures will be in the middle to upper 90s. Upper 90s to near 100 degrees is likely this weekend, Monday and Tuesday.

We may lose a few degrees beyond that, but we’re still really hot and likely hot enough to continue to challenge records. With the ridge locked in, mostly sunny conditions persist with near zero rain chances.

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