Beautiful afternoon across Central Alabama with temperatures well into the 80s with a range of 82 to 85 for the current values around 2 pm. Below is the view from space of the Southeast US. Nice cumulus field present with a nice area of subsidence (sinking air) stretching from about Hamilton southward not quite to the coast. Subsidence also present over much of Georgia near the developing system just off the South Carolina coast.
Radar not showing anything at this time in Alabama. In fact, the only showers present were located just north of Chattanooga moving generally southwestward. Seems to be a little more motion than we saw with storms yesterday. The storms were firing along a small short wave that was rotating around the disturbance off the South Carolina coast. These showers could venture far enough southward to affect the Tennessee Valley but probably not reach into Central Alabama. Seems unlikely that much else will develop for us but we haven’t hit our high for the day yet, so an isolated storm or two is still not completely impossible.
There was a good deal of lightning showing up in those storms in Tennessee.
-Brian-
