UPDATE---7:10 pm Saturday

The Storm Prediction Center has posted a Severe Thunderstorm Watch that goes until 9 o'clock tonight for much of North-Central and Central Alabama. This includes all of the greater Birmingham area. It extends from Lamar, Pickens and Sumter Counties on the west side of the state eastward to the Georgia border and as far north as Cullman County and as far south as Perry, Chilton and Coosa Counties.

This could be updated to a Tornado Watch later.

Thunderstorms growing in strength to the west and SW and they are moving toward the NE.

Dry air has been present over North Alabama this afternoon but those dew points will go up tonight.

A FEW OTHER NOTES...

.....Around 6 pm, automobiles were blown off the road at Bentonia, Miss.,in Yazoo County.

.....Hail the size of eggs (2 inches in diameter) near Harrisonburg, La.

.....Severe Thunderstorm Warning for South Marengo County in West Alabama.

We continue to watch and wait...James Spann, John Oldshue, Brian Peters all here...James just fed me some 3-day old brownies, temporarily fighting off malnutrition.

Life goes on....