Showers and thunderstorms continue to increase over the eastern half of Alabama this afternoon ahead of an approaching trough of low pressure.
A line of showers and storms extends from Jackson County in Northeast Alabama to just east of Gadsden to Anniston to the northwest of Wedowee in Randolph County.
Scattered to numerous showers and storms extend from southern parts of the Birmingham Metro through Shelby, Southern Talladega, Chilton and Coosa Counties southward into South Alabama. This activity was increasing in coverage and intensity and will be affecting eastern Alabama over the next few hours s it moves northward.
West Alabama is in the clear for now, but numerous showers and storms are forming over Mississippi. These storms will be working into western Alabama later this afternoon and evening.
