5:15 actually, but who’s counting?
Tropical rainbands continue across Alabama early this morning.
Rainfall is increasing rapidly in coverage and intensity over Coosa County, moving into eastern Shelby and Talladega Counties. Strong thunderstorm developing near Columbiana. Will push northward into the Leeds Moody area.
A thin line of increasing cells extends from Calera and Alabaster into downtown Birmingham. This line shows some signs of turning into a significant rain band. It is showing signs that it might merge with the Shelby/Coosa cells into a bigger band.
As the low continues northwestward, the activityin Southwest Alabama will become more of a factor for us in Central Alabama also…
It’s gonna be a wet day where the bands set up and where daytime heating increases instability.
With a little shear in the atmosphere, there could be some rotating updrafts and little spin up tornadoes, so keep an eye to the blog, radar and weather radio today.
Heavy rain will be possible where the bands set up. Watch out for that.
And with increased instability and deeper updrafts, we will see more lightning. watch out for that today too.
Memorial Day should be drier, with a little sunshine, but showers and storms will develop again.
