Published on: July 20, 2011 at 12:36 PM

A cluster of showers and thunderstorms has taken all morning moving slowly SW across Central Alabama. At 12:35 pm, here is where they are.

* From South Tallapoosa County, they extend SW to just north of Montgomery and then SW to the Dallas/Wilcox County line.. Still not an excessive amount of lightning.

* Two areas of heavy rain. (1) Across South Tallapoosa County and (2) South Dallas and North Wilcox County between Selma and Camden. There has been some flood reports in the heavier rain (see the earlier post by James)

* Two smaller showers have developed, one over SW Talladega County and a new one over SE Tuscaloosa County near the Bibb County line.

While we are at it, lets look at some official noon temperatures from around Alabama:

93 Muscle Shoals, heat index 102
90 Gadsden, heat index 100
94 Tuscaloosa, heat index 102
92 Birmingham, heat index 99
79 Montgomery (rain cooled)
91 Anniston, heat index 99