Front moving right along, and will arrive here during the day on Friday.

High cloudiness has been increasing across the skies of central Alabama since late this afternoon, and showers and thunderstorms are not far behind to the west.  Some rain may begin falling over the western counties of the state as early as 3 am, and could get to I-65 by 5 am.  The computer forecast models are all over the place concerning what will happen during the day on Friday.
One model now just arriving, suggests a rather stout squall holds together and crosses the viewing area from west to east basically between daybreak and 10 am.  If that scenario is correct, there would be some brief hard downpours and gusty winds, but the whole think would not last very long.  It is the same model that correctly forecast the rain in Tuscaloosa last Saturday to end before the Alabama game.  Other solutions though are suggesting a less “clean” solution with no real organized line of storms, but rather some scattered showers that would be here and there into mid afternoon.  Either way I do not expect it to rain very long, and we should still be in good shape by Friday night football time, and Saturday still looks like a fine day.