Published on: September 22, 2007 at 3:43 PM

It is a beautiful late summer day across most of Central Alabama.

Temperatures are in the middle to upper 80s across the area under partly cloudy skies. A few widely scattered showers are over North Central Alabama. The heaviest was in southern Lawrence County.

Showers and storms are more widespread south of US-80, especially in Mississippi. Cloudiness is thicker here also.

The center of the remnant low from TD 10 appears to be approaching Brookhaven in South Central Mississippi on its way west.

Nationally, not much going on. A couple of severe thunderstorm warnings around Phoeniz in Arizona from some healthy storms there. A new severe thunderstorm watch is just being issued for parts of Arizona. Flash flood watches and warnings in southern Utah. Zion National Park was included in the warning. The NWS in Cedar City warned that runoff from burn areas would cause flash flooding. An upper low over Southern California is responsible for this weather.

Signs of the times: winter storm warnings are in effect for the remainder of the afternoon in the Sierra Mountains of California where 6 inches of snow is expected around Yosemite through nightfall. Up to ten inches might fall across the North Country. The low is responsible for this weather also.