For sure, this has not been a good day for:
….Golf
….Waking the dog
….Picnicking
….Cross-country cycling
….Yard work
….Long hikes
It has been a day-long rumble of thunder for most. However, we have not heard of wind damage so far today like we did last evening. But lots of rain.
As of 11 am, Birmingham Airport has reeived an additional 1.46 inches of rain since early this morning.
There is always a bit of good news on days like this. The Storm Prediction Center has removed part of North Alabama from the slight risk of severe weather. For this afternoon and evening the slight risk is along a line roughly from Hamilton to Birmingham to Roanoke southward. Part of Extreme Alabama also not included.
Some of the strongest storms at noon were across Montgomery, Elmore, Macon and Bullock County where a “Significant Weather Alert was in effect for part of the area.
Most of the lightning in the entire USA was here in Alabama at noon with Mississippi coming in second.
More moderate to heavy rain moving into West Jefferson County. Extensive rain was wetting down Tuscaloosa, Pickens, Bibb and Greene County in West Central Alabama.
THE DERECHO
It was a bad one and it was born in SW Kansas early yesterday and lasted at least 16 hours traveling 800 miles across six states all the way to Alabama. It would be astounding if we knew how many trees were uprooted. Our own Bill and Sally Murray were driving from Birmingham to Memphis late yesterday and they were traveling through Olive Branch, Miss., at the worst possible time. That is south of Memphis and they had an EF2 tornado.
