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BUT THERE WILL BE SOME STORMS HEADING INTO THIS AFTERNOON. BUT JUST KIND OF FRAMING UP THE DAY THIS MORNING, WE’RE DEALING WITH SOME CLOUDS. THERE’S A LOT OF STRATUS ACROSS CENTRAL ALABAMA AND SOME PATCHY FOG. AND THIS AFTERNOON THERE WILL BE SCATTERED HEAVY STORMS, LOCALIZED FLOODING, A POSSIBILITY. WE’RE NOT LOOKING AT A SEVERE THREAT, MAINLY JUST HEAVY DOWNPOURS, FREQUENT LIGHTNING. BUT THOSE STORMS CAN CERTAINLY BE DISTURBING. LAST NIGHT THEY WERE VERY ELECTRIC TOO. IF YOU WERE DRIVING OR OUTSIDE, YOU PROBABLY SAW THE LIGHTNING, MAYBE HEARD THE THUNDER ROLLING. SO WE WILL DEAL WITH MORE STORMS LATER TODAY. BUT THIS IS THE VIEW LOOKING OVER THE MAGIC CITY. AND SOME OF THAT FOG IS ALREADY BEGINNING TO LIFT. VISIBILITY IS ALREADY IMPROVING, BUT IT DOES LOOK GLOOMY OUTSIDE THIS MORNING IF YOU PEEK OUT THE WINDOW. GOT A LIGHT BREEZE TO FIRST WARNING LIVE RADAR SCANNING DRY. LOOK AT THE RAIN WE RECEIVED YESTERDAY. SO THESE ARE ESTIMATED RAINFALL TOTALS OVER THE PAST 12 HOURS. YOU CAN SEE HOW SCATTERED THESE DOWNPOURS ARE. MORE OF THE SAME THIS AFTERNOON THOUGH, WE DID HAVE MORE OF A COMPLEX OF STORMS THAT MOVED IN TO THE NORTH FROM THE NORTH AND WEST THAT PRODUCED SOME VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER WALKER AND WINSTON COUNTIES AND WEST ALABAMA. AND SO IF WE GET THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON TO MOVE OVER SOME OF THE SAME AREAS, THAT COULD CERTAINLY LEAD TO SOME LOCALIZED FLOODING. SO LET’S TIME IT OUT ON FIRST WARNING. FUTURE TRACK QUIET THIS MORNING. BY LUNCHTIME, THERE COULD BE A FEW SPOTTY SHOWERS AROUND. TEMPERATURES IN THE 80S. AND IF YOU ARE PLANNING TO GRILL OUT OR BE OUTDOORS, YOU’LL PROBABLY PROBABLY BE DODGING SOME DOWNPOURS THROUGH THE AFTERNOON HOURS. I DO THINK THAT COVERAGE IS A BIT SLIMMER TODAY, OR MAYBE I SHOULD SAY MORE WIDELY SCATTERED, BUT THERE WILL STILL BE SOME STORMS TO DEAL WITH AND JUST BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THAT PLAN ACCORDINGLY. IF YOU HAVE OUTDOOR PLANS BY 5 P.M., YOU CAN SEE STILL SOME DOWNPOURS AROUND. WE ARE IN THE LOW TO MID 80S. HIGH TEMPERATURES TODAY IN THE MID TO UPPER 80S. IT’S GOING TO BE HOT AND STEAMY AND THEN TONIGHT MAYBE A FEW DOWNPOURS LINGERING, BUT IT DOESN’T LOOK LIKE WE WILL DEAL WITH AS LARGE OF A COMPLEX OF STORMS AS WE DID LAST NIGHT. MORE SUMMER STORMS IN THE SEVEN DAY FORECAST. YOU KNOW THAT DOESN’T MEAN THAT IT RAINS ALL DAY EVERY DAY, BUT WE WILL HAVE STEAMY MORNINGS, HOT, HUMID AFTERNOONS, AND THEN THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP DURING THE PEAK HEATING HOURS OF THE DAY. LOOKING TOWARD THE SECOND HALF OF THE NEW WEEK, WE SEE FEWER STORMS AND WITH FEWER STORMS. THAT WILL MEAN THE HEAT INDEX CLIMBS A LITTLE BIT HIGHER. WHEN YOU FACTOR IN THE HUMIDITY. AND SO WE HAVE YET TO TOUCH TRIPLE DIGIT FEELS LIKE NUMBERS THIS YEAR, BUT WE’RE CERTAINLY GETTING CLOSER, ESPECIALLY IN WEST ALABAMA HEADING INTO THE LATTER HALF OF THE WEEK, WE COUL