Huntsville, Alabama 7 Day Weather Forecast

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Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Huntsville AL
1147 PM CDT Sun May 24 2026

...New NEAR TERM, SHORT TERM, LONG TERM...

.KEY MESSAGES...
Updated at 1146 PM CDT Sat May 24 2026

 - A Dense Fog Advisory has been issued for all counties in
   northern Alabama and southern middle Tennessee in the forecast
   area through 10 AM CDT on Monday.

 - A Flash Flood Watch has been issued from 10 AM tomorrow
   through 10 PM CDT on Tuesday evening for Cullman, Morgan,
   Madison, Jackson, Marshall and Dekalb counties.

 - A excessive rainfall and flash flooding threat will return to
   the area Thursday into Friday.

 - Gusty winds and lightning will be the other hazards associated
   with thunderstorms.

&&

.NEAR TERM...
(Rest of tonight and Monday)
Issued at 1146 PM CDT Sun May 24 2026

A thin line of showers that stretched from central Lauderdale
County (AL) NE into the the Green Hill area (TN) an hour ago has
mostly dissipated. However, a thin line of light showers continue
to move very slowly east in Tennessee at this time.

Futher south of this activity, many areas received at least
between half an inch and three inches of rainfall over the last 24
hours near and east of the I-65 corridor. This produced some
flash flooding over a good portion of central Cullman county and
isolated river flooding in portions of NE Alabama.

Flooding receded earlier this afternoon and evening. However, the
ground is very saturated in many locations, especially east of
the I-65 corridor. The thin line of showers continue to fall apart
in northern Alabama.

Several areas have already had clear skies in place for a few
hours. Latest satellite imagery is not showing appreciable low
level cloud cover filling back in. Dewpoint depressions are
already 0 degrees in those locations. Believe this will continue
until around 3 or 4 AM, before lower clouds move in or form with
denser fog development. Well before then, with light winds
expected to continue with clear skies or high thin cloud cover,
expect dense fog to develop quickly towards between now and
midnight. This should continue with very low clouds developing
towards daybreak. Thus, have issued a Dense Fog Advisory for our
northern Alabama and southern middle Tennessee counties.

&&

.SHORT TERM...
(Monday night through Wednesday)
Issued at 1146 PM CDT Sun May 24 2026

00Z guidance continues to hang the surface front up just to the
north of the area northeast into the Ohio Valley into the day on
Monday. A fairly large upper low is in place west of this surface
front aloft. During the day on Monday (especially in the afternoon/early
evening), the upper low moves northward, pulling the front into
Kentucky.

This pulls fairly strong forcing both at 500 mb and 850 mb across
the region after 10 AM. With a very moist atmospheric profile
still in place (PWATS remaining between 1.6 and 1.8 inches),
heavy rainfall will still be on tap tomorrow. Given the saturated
ground conditions and strong forcing shown at 500 mb and 700 mb,
a flood watch will be issued that starts at 10 AM tomorrow morning
for counties that have recently received the heaviest rainfall
(Cullman, Morgan, Marshall, Madison, Jackson, DeKalb). The abundant
cloud cover and precipitation should keep highs in the 75 to 80
degree range again.

Though the surface front continues to move further northward
Monday night into Tuesday, an additional trough axis through
northern Alabama and southern middle Tennessee forms southward
from this warm front. This should continue to focus forcing over
the area. At this time, it looks like areas near and east of the
I-65 corridor will be near/east of the trough axis. West of this
trough axis may see less rainfall overall. For now, continuing
the Flash Flood Watch for those same counties mentioned earlier.
This should line up closely to locations near and east of the
trough axis expected to develop on Tuesday. Luckily, not seeing
much shear and instability should be limited (a few hundred to
around 1000 J/KG primarily). Cannot rule out some thunderstorm
activity, but it will remain sub-severe. Most guidance dissipates
any convection and really drops off precipitation amounts after 10
PM on Tuesday. At least 2 to 4 inches of storm total rainfall with
locally higher amounts look reasonable Monday and Tuesday.

Besides flash flooding concerns, river flooding will need to be
monitored for area basins rising above flood stage. Again, cloud
cover and precipitation will keep highs in the 75 to 80 degree
range in the afternoon.

It looks like on Wednesday, the center of the trough axis moves
east of the area in GA. This should shift the better forcing east
of the area and put northern Alabama into southern middle
Tennessee into a regime of subsidence and give us a break from
rainfall activity. Temperatures might rebound a bit higher on
Wednesday back into the 80 to 85 degree range in many areas,
despite lingering cloud cover.

&&

.LONG TERM...
(Wednesday night through Sunday)
Issued at 1146 PM CDT Sun May 24 2026

As we go into Wednesday night, an upper low should be positioned over
the Sierra Nevada range. Rather sharp, smaller synoptic scale ridging
was also in place from the Deep south to the Upper Mississippi River
Valley. But more upper lows over SE Canada was producing troughing
along eastern seaboard from the Mid Atlantic and northward. The
western trough should weaken as we go into the weekend, with upper
ridging from the Gulf to south/central Canada holding strong. The SE
Canadian trough not only persists, but guidance even further out from
Sunday show it potentially amplifying further to the south.

By the midweek, a frontal boundary should be oriented in a west to
east manner from the central Great Plains to the northern Delmarva.
Because of upper troughing from eastern Canada, it will move more
southward along the east coast across the Carolinas. But it should
for the most part remain near to just north of our area in the latter
half of the week.

A southerly flow from the Gulf will keep a moist environment in place
across the Deep South. This moisture along with daytime heating
will destabilize, and bring more showers and thunderstorms each day.
Precipitable water amounts for this period range from 1.7" to 1.9"
which will favor locally heavy rainfall in the heavier showers and
storms. Given that heavy rainfall will have already fallen in
previous convection, additional amounts will run off and could result
in flooding, as well as rises in creek, stream and river water
levels. Overall thunderstorm strength for the most parts should
remain general, gusty outflow winds the main threat. Storms in these
environments can become very electrically active, thus consideration
to seek safe shelter should storms near your location. With more
clouds than sun and elevated rain chances, daily high temperatures
for the extended should range mostly in the lower 80s (with some mid
80s at times), and lows in the mid 60s.

&&

.AVIATION...
(00Z TAFS)
Issued at 708 PM CDT Sun May 24 2026

Predominantly VFR CIGS are expected for the next few hours. Some
mesoscale guidance reforms a thin line of RA that pushes east
across the terminals between 00Z and 03Z. Clearing has already
occurred in many areas of northern Alabama. This could lead to
widespread dense fog across much of northern Alabama by 5Z or 6Z.
With dewpoints depressions already very low and the boundary layer
very saturated from all the rainfall today, this looks very
possible (maybe as early as midnight to 2 AM). For now, we have
not been that aggressive with the fog development in the TAFS.
However, lower MVFR VSBYS and CIGS were included after 9Z with a
tempo group for IFR VSBYS. These VSBYS and CIGS may need to be
lower and begin earlier than currently forecast (closer to the 5Z
to 7Z timeframe for MVFR VSBY drops - and maybe to between 1/4SM
and 3/4SM for VSBYS between 9Z and 12Z) by the next issuance. MVFR
CIGS will likely linger into the day on Monday.

&&

.HUN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
AL...Dense Fog Advisory until 10 AM CDT Monday for ALZ001>010-016.

     Flood Watch from 10 AM CDT Monday through Tuesday evening for
     ALZ006>010-016.

TN...Dense Fog Advisory until 10 AM CDT Monday for TNZ076-096-097.

&&

$$

NEAR TERM...KTW
SHORT TERM....KTW
LONG TERM....RSB
AVIATION...KTW