Fog and low clouds shroud much of the area this morning. Fog was observed at several reporting stations, including most stations in the Tennessee Valley. Visibility was down to 1/4 mile at Muscle Shoals at 6 a.m.
They lie on either side of a long snaky stationary front that has inched itself ever so slowly to the east. It is very hard to pick out on a surface chart, but it probably extends from Anniston to Calera to Demopolis.
Higher up inthe atmosphere, a large trough of low pressure extendes from the Upper Midwest into the Lower Mississipi Valley. This is keeping Alabama in a moist southwesterly flow aloft and enhancing our shower and storm chances.
Across the state, early morning temperatures ranged from 64 at Vinemont and 68 at Fort Payne to 73 in Tuscaloosa and 74 at Brookley Field on Mobile Bay. It was 71F in Birmingham at 6 a.m.
The surface low we have been monitoring for tropical development is over South Florida this morning. It is lighting up radars as far north as southeastern North Carolina with showers and thunderstorms in an onshore easterly flow. Vero Beach FL reported 74F with a thunderstorm at 7 a.m. EDT.
It will be moving north to the Florida Panhandle by tomorrow. This could bring some really beneficial rains to the parched regions of Southeast Alabama and South Georgia.
Here in Alabama, the proximity of the boundary, the trough to the west and ample moisture will lead to a good chance of showers and thunderstorm today. Those could spill over into the overnight tonight. We will continue with rain chances on Monday, but things will dry out on Tuesday. Temperatures today will top out in the middle to upper 80s across the region with some sunshine.
The stationary front extends all the way into New England. Showers and thunderstorms are all along it. A persistent cluster of storms formed just over the Alabama around Rome, Georgia during the pre-dawn hours and continues. Heavy rain and storms were affecting the Delmarva region and the Eastern Shore of Maryland. AMTRAK's Crescent passenger train stops at Culpeper VA where heavy rain is falling this morning along with a temperature of 70F.
National Weather Service offices from Raleigh/Durham NC to Mount Holly NJ have been busy issuing flash flood warnings overnihgt. Flash flood warnings are in effect for several counties along the front, including Prince William County Virginia where you would find the Manassas Civil War Battlefield.
It's a nice morning along the beaches of Alabama and Northwest Florida. A few showers were on radar near Dauphin Island. Sea water temperature at the NOAA National Ocean Service station at Pensacola, a warm 87.8F. The surface low over Florida will move northward to the Florida Panhandle during the next 24 hours, giving a good chance of showers and storms to the coast. Things should clear out by Tuesday.
Other concentrations of rain and storms are over the Great Lakes states and over the Central and Southern Plains. Severe weather will be possible in places like Kansas, Central Missouri, eastern Iowa an northwestern Illinois.
They lie on either side of a long snaky stationary front that has inched itself ever so slowly to the east. It is very hard to pick out on a surface chart, but it probably extends from Anniston to Calera to Demopolis.
Higher up inthe atmosphere, a large trough of low pressure extendes from the Upper Midwest into the Lower Mississipi Valley. This is keeping Alabama in a moist southwesterly flow aloft and enhancing our shower and storm chances.
Across the state, early morning temperatures ranged from 64 at Vinemont and 68 at Fort Payne to 73 in Tuscaloosa and 74 at Brookley Field on Mobile Bay. It was 71F in Birmingham at 6 a.m.
The surface low we have been monitoring for tropical development is over South Florida this morning. It is lighting up radars as far north as southeastern North Carolina with showers and thunderstorms in an onshore easterly flow. Vero Beach FL reported 74F with a thunderstorm at 7 a.m. EDT.
It will be moving north to the Florida Panhandle by tomorrow. This could bring some really beneficial rains to the parched regions of Southeast Alabama and South Georgia.
Here in Alabama, the proximity of the boundary, the trough to the west and ample moisture will lead to a good chance of showers and thunderstorm today. Those could spill over into the overnight tonight. We will continue with rain chances on Monday, but things will dry out on Tuesday. Temperatures today will top out in the middle to upper 80s across the region with some sunshine.
The stationary front extends all the way into New England. Showers and thunderstorms are all along it. A persistent cluster of storms formed just over the Alabama around Rome, Georgia during the pre-dawn hours and continues. Heavy rain and storms were affecting the Delmarva region and the Eastern Shore of Maryland. AMTRAK's Crescent passenger train stops at Culpeper VA where heavy rain is falling this morning along with a temperature of 70F.
National Weather Service offices from Raleigh/Durham NC to Mount Holly NJ have been busy issuing flash flood warnings overnihgt. Flash flood warnings are in effect for several counties along the front, including Prince William County Virginia where you would find the Manassas Civil War Battlefield.
It's a nice morning along the beaches of Alabama and Northwest Florida. A few showers were on radar near Dauphin Island. Sea water temperature at the NOAA National Ocean Service station at Pensacola, a warm 87.8F. The surface low over Florida will move northward to the Florida Panhandle during the next 24 hours, giving a good chance of showers and storms to the coast. Things should clear out by Tuesday.
Other concentrations of rain and storms are over the Great Lakes states and over the Central and Southern Plains. Severe weather will be possible in places like Kansas, Central Missouri, eastern Iowa an northwestern Illinois.
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on June 25, 2006, 7:07 am
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