The band of showers and thunderstorms that has been working its way north westward all afternoon from the coast has now moved as far NW as a line from Livingston and Eutaw in West Alabama to just north of Tuscaloosa and NW and north of Birmingham into Blount County.
These storms are not in a solid line and not quite as strong as earlier. They will produce locally heavy rain over the rest of Greene and Tuscaloosa Counties and also spreading into Pickens, Walker and Cullman Counties.
While we are at it, let’s take another peek at the Gulf Coast. Doppler radar shows the center of circulation around Tropical Storm Claudette to be SW of Panama City and moving toward the NW. This would indicate a possible landfall between Pensacola and Ft. Walton. That is not the final word. The strongest convection (thunderstorms) is still on the east and SE side of the circulation.
While we are at it, let’s look at Tropical Depression Ana. It is still fully organized and is way out in the Atlantic and apparently no immediate threat to the USA. However, the long-range projection brings it into the SE Gulf of Mexico next Friday. It may still be only a tropical depression at that time.
TROPICAL STORM BILL
He is likely to become a hurricane tonight or Monday. So far, the official projection from the National Hurricane Center keeps him over open Atlantic waters all next week. By next Friday, he is expected to still be a hurricane, but still no threat to the USA at that time, but possibly a threat to Bermuda.
