As a strong cold front pushes east today, strong or even severe storms may develop out ahead of it.  Our window of oppurtunity will be anywhere from 4pm on into tonight.  Some storms will be capable of producing strong gusty winds up to 60 or 70mph, large hail, frequent cloud-to-ground lightning, and heavy rainfall.  Our tornado threat with storms late today and tonight is very low at this time.  Much of our severe weather potential seems to be focused in northwest parts of the state.

Skies will otherwise be mostly cloudy with highs in the upper 80s and low 90s today.  Tomorrow, we will be on the back side of this unusually strong cold front.  Afternoon highs should be closer to 80 degrees, but WAFF-48 Pinpoint Predictior has afternoon highs peaking in the low and mid 70s.  This of course is dependant on how much cloud cover vs. sunshine we have tomorrow afternoon.

So what's been going on this weekend?  Why have we been so warm and dry.  Right now we have an upper-level ridge on top of the Southeast.  This ridge has kept the rain and storms north and west of here.  But this ridge is breaking down over the next couple of days and this will make us more vulnerable to possible showers or thunderstorms.

As the ridge begins weakening, we stand a better chance at a few afternoon isolated showers and storms by Monday.

By Tuesday, an upper-level trough may enhance a few widespread showers and storms in our area.  Still no severe weather is anticipated.

But with a flattening of the ridge or a few disturbances developing and rolling through our Valley, slight rain chances will stay around here through the end of the week.