Summer-like heat and bone dry conditions continue to stick around Alabama this fall season.
Much of the state has broken records on high temperatures in the past couple of days. Forecasters are predicting a cold front to move in on Thursday that will bring a few storms and near average temperatures.
John De Block is a meteorologist for the national weather service in Birmingham. He says that Birmingham is closing in on the record for the longest streak of days without significant rainfall…
“It’s really a record second place all time fifty two days is the longest streak without rainfall recorded at Birmingham but we are certainly looking at drought conditions exceptional drought conditions all over northeast Alabama.”
It has been forty-four days since any measurable rain has fallen in the magic city. The ongoing drought has led to state of emergency for Alabama and many wildfires throughout the state.