The Thursday afternoon map discussion video is on the server:
http://beta.abc3340.com/weather/video.hrb
Tropical downpours are developing again this afternoon... NWS Birmingham has issued a flash flood warning for Pike county down in south Alabama... and as I am typing this a new FFW is being issued for Elmore county. I expect to see a few more of those during the next few hours; some places could get an inch of rain in only 15 to 30 minutes and a gob of lightning.
Same deal tomorrow; very humid; some sun, and a few downpours.
THE WEEKEND: Heights will steadily rise, and the warmer temperatures aloft should mean fewer showers and storms, especially on Sunday. Temperatures should reach the low 90s.
NEXT WEEK: Showers should remain very widely scattered on Monday and Tuesday, followed by an increase in the number of showers and storms over the latter half of the week as a surface boundary approaches. We wonder if some moisture from Emily will move through the Texas coastal plain and up along that stalled boundary in the 7 to 9 time period.
EMILY: Still looks like a landfall around Wednesday next week along the Gulf coast of Mexico, about 100 miles or so south of Brownsville, TX. Everyone as far north as Corpus Cristi will still have to pay close attention to this; it could be a very serious storm at the time of landfall due to those very, very warm sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in the western Gulf. Allen and Gilbert come to mind... I don't think this one will be as bad as those, but you sure can't rule it out.
FRANKLIN? The system in the eastern Atlantic is not any better organized, but I still expect some development over coming days, possibly the birth of tropical storm Franklin. Most of the models (but not all of them) recurve this into the open Atlantic, being no threat to land. We will keep an eye on it.
COMPUTER STUFF: Have you downloaded the free "Google Earth" program? This thing is too cool; you can fly around the nation and zoom into neighborhoods using low orbiting satellite pictures. You can almost tell if your lawn was trimmed properly when the pictures were made.
Get it here: http://earth.google.com
And, most of you know we are big Firefox browser fans here in the weather office; a new version has been released with a few security patches. Get it here;
http://www.getfirefox.com
Firefox includes "live bookmarks" so you can keep up with new posts here on the blog without having to visit the page. Tabbed browsing is a must... and Firefox has it. Of course, it is a free download.
http://beta.abc3340.com/weather/video.hrb
Tropical downpours are developing again this afternoon... NWS Birmingham has issued a flash flood warning for Pike county down in south Alabama... and as I am typing this a new FFW is being issued for Elmore county. I expect to see a few more of those during the next few hours; some places could get an inch of rain in only 15 to 30 minutes and a gob of lightning.
Same deal tomorrow; very humid; some sun, and a few downpours.
THE WEEKEND: Heights will steadily rise, and the warmer temperatures aloft should mean fewer showers and storms, especially on Sunday. Temperatures should reach the low 90s.
NEXT WEEK: Showers should remain very widely scattered on Monday and Tuesday, followed by an increase in the number of showers and storms over the latter half of the week as a surface boundary approaches. We wonder if some moisture from Emily will move through the Texas coastal plain and up along that stalled boundary in the 7 to 9 time period.
EMILY: Still looks like a landfall around Wednesday next week along the Gulf coast of Mexico, about 100 miles or so south of Brownsville, TX. Everyone as far north as Corpus Cristi will still have to pay close attention to this; it could be a very serious storm at the time of landfall due to those very, very warm sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in the western Gulf. Allen and Gilbert come to mind... I don't think this one will be as bad as those, but you sure can't rule it out.
FRANKLIN? The system in the eastern Atlantic is not any better organized, but I still expect some development over coming days, possibly the birth of tropical storm Franklin. Most of the models (but not all of them) recurve this into the open Atlantic, being no threat to land. We will keep an eye on it.
COMPUTER STUFF: Have you downloaded the free "Google Earth" program? This thing is too cool; you can fly around the nation and zoom into neighborhoods using low orbiting satellite pictures. You can almost tell if your lawn was trimmed properly when the pictures were made.
Get it here: http://earth.google.com
And, most of you know we are big Firefox browser fans here in the weather office; a new version has been released with a few security patches. Get it here;
http://www.getfirefox.com
Firefox includes "live bookmarks" so you can keep up with new posts here on the blog without having to visit the page. Tabbed browsing is a must... and Firefox has it. Of course, it is a free download.
on July 14, 2005, 1:57 pm
To download it, after you install Google Earth, go to the URL below, and on the bottom right side of the page, select Alabama from the dropdown and click 'show'. Choose to open 'radar.kml' in Google Earth, and enjoy the radar goodness.
http://www.weatherstationmaps.info/weather/index.jsp?query=birmin
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on July 14, 2005, 7:12 pm
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