Here is how the situation looks early on this Wednesday afternoon:
* Extensive rain and thunderstorms near the coast from Alabama's Baldwin County eastward across NW Florida into SW Georgia.
* Another cluster of showers and storms in West-Central Alabama from Tuscaloosa County southward into Bibb and Perry Counties.
* Still other showers and storms over East Alabama between Birmingham and the Georgia border.
Everything is moving toward the east.
* A cold front has struggled into NW Alabama located at noon between Florence and Huntsville. It is in the vicinity of Athens and Decatur down to near Hamilton. Good temperature contrast. Look at these noon temperatures:
71 in Birmingham
70 in Ft. Payne
73 in Tuscaloosa
65 in Muscle Shoals (west of the front)
55 in Memphis and Jackson, Tennessee
54 in Nashville
55 in Tunica, Mississippi
49 at Harrison, Arkansas
A breath of fresh air.
In their midday update, the Storm Prediction Center kept most of Alabama under a slight risk of severe weather this afternoon into tonight. Only the extreme north and NW is not included. We tend to think the better chance of that will be more to the east and south, but as we always do, we will keep our storm wary eyes open.
* Extensive rain and thunderstorms near the coast from Alabama's Baldwin County eastward across NW Florida into SW Georgia.
* Another cluster of showers and storms in West-Central Alabama from Tuscaloosa County southward into Bibb and Perry Counties.
* Still other showers and storms over East Alabama between Birmingham and the Georgia border.
Everything is moving toward the east.
* A cold front has struggled into NW Alabama located at noon between Florence and Huntsville. It is in the vicinity of Athens and Decatur down to near Hamilton. Good temperature contrast. Look at these noon temperatures:
71 in Birmingham
70 in Ft. Payne
73 in Tuscaloosa
65 in Muscle Shoals (west of the front)
55 in Memphis and Jackson, Tennessee
54 in Nashville
55 in Tunica, Mississippi
49 at Harrison, Arkansas
A breath of fresh air.
In their midday update, the Storm Prediction Center kept most of Alabama under a slight risk of severe weather this afternoon into tonight. Only the extreme north and NW is not included. We tend to think the better chance of that will be more to the east and south, but as we always do, we will keep our storm wary eyes open.