Just another quick note about today's weather situation. Over the past couple of days, showers have moved little thus dropping large amounts of rain in one spot. Movement - or at least what we might call movement - was created by shower propagation. In other words, one shower forms and dies while a new shower develops close to the first one giving the sense of motion but in reality the showers were almost stationary.
Today is different. I've already noted in a blog post below about the movement from northeast to southwest. But today, the showers do seem to have some definite motion to them. And they seem to be moving along at a steady pace though not particularly fast. The net result, though, is that most locations getting showers are not getting extremely heavy rain. The Birmingham WSR-88D storm total precipitation estimates showed around 3 pm that the heaviest rains were on the order of 6 tenths of an inch to one inch - and those heavier spots were mighty small. Most estimates were less than 3 tenths of an inch.
And so far my rain gauge has remained dry. A small shower developed just to my south and southwest but with the movement toward the southwest, all I got was some thunder - nary a drop! Still a long time to sunset so perhaps a boundary from the showers nearby will aide in producing a shower that will give me some rain. I love to sit on the porch and watch/listen to the rain.
-Brian-
Today is different. I've already noted in a blog post below about the movement from northeast to southwest. But today, the showers do seem to have some definite motion to them. And they seem to be moving along at a steady pace though not particularly fast. The net result, though, is that most locations getting showers are not getting extremely heavy rain. The Birmingham WSR-88D storm total precipitation estimates showed around 3 pm that the heaviest rains were on the order of 6 tenths of an inch to one inch - and those heavier spots were mighty small. Most estimates were less than 3 tenths of an inch.
And so far my rain gauge has remained dry. A small shower developed just to my south and southwest but with the movement toward the southwest, all I got was some thunder - nary a drop! Still a long time to sunset so perhaps a boundary from the showers nearby will aide in producing a shower that will give me some rain. I love to sit on the porch and watch/listen to the rain.
-Brian-