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Today will be another gem of a day in April with abundant sunshine and light easterly winds, highs will be slightly warmer in the middle to upper 70s

Today will be a wonderful start to the week with abundant sunshine and highs reaching the upper 60s to lower 70s

Rain showers will continue off and on through the day today with highs staying below average in the upper 50s to lower 60s. It looks like we should see a brief break in the rainfall for late Friday evening although isolated showers remain possible. Yet another round of rainfall will move in for the early part of the day Saturday with mostly cloudy skies and highs in the 60s.

A Flood Watch is in effect for Franklin, Colbert, Lauderdale, Lawrence and Limestone Counties through 1:00 p.m.

Partly to mostly cloudy skies are expected this afternoon with highs again reaching the middle 80s, it will be a fairly windy day with occasional wind gusts close to 40 mph. Scattered to numerous rain showers and storms will develop into the later afternoon and evening hours, especially areas along and west of I-65. Some storms may be strong to marginally severe with the main threats being 40+ mph winds, frequent lightning and locally heavy rainfall.