Storm Coverage Will Increase Along With Cooler Temperatures, And What About That Meteor?

Thursday Night Update

June 26, 2025

Brian Davis,

We’ll have slightly better storm chances tonight due to an old outflow boundary from nearby storms that occurred in Alabama last night. We could see a couple of storms that could produce a brief damaging wind gust or some very localized flooding this evening over parts of our southern counties but again, most will not get any rain at all. Also, More on the Meteor below and we’ll have more details coming up tonight at 10!

Dangerous heat will be with us through Friday evening. A heat advisory will remain in effect through 9 pm Friday. The combination of high temperatures, high amounts of moisture in the air (humidity), and the lack of much of a breeze will make for a dangerous heatwave through Friday evening. There is a little bit of good news for the weekend ahead. Temperatures will return more near the 90 degree mark for highs (instead of upper 90s) and the high pressure that has been keeping us in a heat dome will finally start to weaken and move away to the southeast. This will increase our chances of storms along the ridge of the high where storms like to develop in the summertime.

This should allow better chances of showers and storms into the weekend along a noticeable cooldown. Even areas that might not get rain will likely benefit from the outflow from nearby storms to help keep things cooler. Storms will get more concentrated into the second half of the weekend with rain chances returning to around 70% on Sunday, much higher odds than we’ve had in several days.

In the meantime, Continue to use caution as the heat advisory remains in place until 9 pm Friday night.

Make sure to remember to hydrate and take plenty of breaks when outside. If you wait until you feel thirsty, you have waited to long, so make sure to get plenty of clear liquids.

Thunderstorm coverage will increase into Friday but most will still be without rain. In short, there will be more amounts of scattered storms and they will put down very heavy rain in short order hyper-locally, some locations will easily pick up between 1-3 inches of rain. But I want to emphasis this will be hyperlocal not everyone will receive into Thursday evening and Friday! Much better chances of rain and storms will be with us by the second half of the weekend with 70% odds by Sunday afternoon and evening. Rain chances will stay higher into the start of next week as well.

In other news: Did you see the meteor yesterday? Check this out! It was probably one of the best views of a fireball I’ve ever seen. Meteor Spotted Over The Skies of The South Wednesday….

Fireball seen as meteorite streaks through sky over Georgia and South Carolina

I’ve drove bunch of miles in my life, traveling down the interstates of the U.S.A. and I’ve seen a ton of things, but this isn’t one of the things you’ll see often! A fireball, or a bright meteorite, was seen across the southeastern United States on Thursday and later exploded over Georgia, creating booms heard by residents in the area, according to NASA.The American Meteor Society (not to be confused with the American Meteorological Society) said it received more than 160 reports of a fireball sighting from observers in Georgia and South Carolina at 12:25 p.m. ET. The meteor was first seen at an altitude of 48 miles above the town of Oxford, Georgia, moving southwest at 30,000 miles per hour, said Bill Cooke, a lead at NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office.

The fireball later exploded 27 miles above West Forest, Georgia, unleashing an energy of about 20 tons of TNT. Cooke said the fireball was 3 feet in diameter and weighed more than a ton (2,000 pounds).

“The resulting pressure wave propagated to the ground, creating booms heard by many in that area,” Cooke said in a statement.

B.D.

Brian Davis
Storm Team 7 AMS Certified Meteorologist