STORMS GROWING STRONGER--Approaching Birmingham

A line of showers and thunderstorms was growing stronger this afternoon in areas to the north and west of Birmingham.

The line of showers and storms extended from near Cullman down across east and south Walker County into extreme North Tuscaloosa and Pickens Counties.

The strongest thunderstorms were over SE Walker County about to move into NW Jefferson County.

This line of storms is along or near a cold front. There is considerable lightning. These showers and storms will reach the greater Birmingham area between 2:00 and 3:00 this afternoon. They will produce lots of lightning and some very heavy rain.

Further south heavy rain was also falling over the SE half of Chilton County and NW Coosa County in Central Alabama.
Posted by  
on April 26, 2006, 1:08 pm
Something tells me James would disagree with this article:

"Experts: Global warming behind 2005 hurricanes"
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/04/25/global.warming.hurrica
nes.reut/index.html


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Posted by  
on April 26, 2006, 1:29 pm
From what I have read, James is a part of a growing minority who are holding out on the Natural Variablity explaination.

There is a concensus among climate scientists now that anthroprogenic (human caused) climate change is real.

See http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science/hurricanes-and-clima
te-change.html
for facts and

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/04/tropical-cy
clones-workshop/
for a blog by some leaders in the field and an update on a recent conference.

Poor James will have to eat crow, better sooner than later.

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Posted by Katrina  
on April 26, 2006, 1:36 pm
James won't be eating crow. Global warming is a crock.

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Posted by  
on April 26, 2006, 2:02 pm
High shool physics:

Vapor pressure is an EXPONENTIAL function of temperature.

Therefore, a small increase in surface sea temperatures causes a LARGE increase in latent heat of evaporation!

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Posted by jamie  
on April 26, 2006, 2:22 pm
Cold Front looks to have moved through downtown. Sky is clearing up very nice. Not too much rain at all here. enough to dampen the road... Have a good one bloggers



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Posted by Mikey  
on April 26, 2006, 2:40 pm
...and enough to mess up my car that was washed over the weekend.

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