Meteorologist Zack Webster

Welcome to race week, folks!

NASCAR returns to Talladega for their spring race weekend, and here's your first look at what we could see.

Friday looks good with a small chance for a stray shower, while chances are a little higher to see some rain drops on Saturday and Sunday.

Keep checking back for updates! Don't let this be your one and only look at the forecast. Models are still struggling to find consistent agreement among each other, so expect to see changes to these rain chances as we head through the next several days.

Consistent signals of a pattern flip are on the horizon!

Rain chances are once again on the increase especially for the end of the weekend, and there's continuing indications that we could see some occasionally better rain chances into next week as well.

It's not going to be anything drought-busting, but it's likely more helpful than what we've seen over the last few weeks.

Breezy conditions and low humidity behind the cold front combined with ongoing extreme drought conditions have created a high wildfire danger around much of the region today.

Outdoor burning of any kind is very highly discouraged.

The warmest air we've seen so far this year is settling in over the next few days. Highs today and tomorrow will be within a degree of tying record values.

A few locations could briefly reach 90° Friday afternoon, then we turn cooler as a cold front passes overhead on Sunday.