The sinking air associated with the ridge will again limit the coverage of any shower or thunderstorms over our area.
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An area of showers and thunderstorms in the northeast Gulf of Mexico has a slight chance of tropical development but nonetheless will increase the already high chance for rain in the middle to latter part of next week, according to the Eyewitness Weather team. Conditions are conducive for this system to become a tropical depression early next week while it moves northwestward toward the Baja California peninsula.
The area of low pressure will likely stall for several days over the northeastern Gulf, and if this scenario actually plays out, some concern for possible weak tropical development would be possible.
The Mexican government discontinued the tropical storm warning and there were no coastal warnings or watches in effect.
The weather service in Mobile said the main impact for south Alabama at this point looks to be rainfall – with higher rain totals near the coast starting in the east and moving westward.
Another tropical wave is producing disorganized cloudiness and showers just north of Puerto Rico and the adjacent Atlantic.
By Saturday morning, the center of Earl was pushing through central Mexico and weakening.
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It was located about 100 miles west of Veracruz, Mexico, and was expected to dissipate later today as it moves into the mountains in Mexico, the hurricane center said.
