A broad line of showers and even a few thunderstorms was entering NW Alabama before the 4 o’clock hour early on this Thursday morning. The rain is along but mainly ahead of a pronounced cold front.
Bottom line, it will be a wet morning drive for the entire Birmingham Metro area.
At 4 o’clock, the leading east edge of the rain band was along the Fort Payne-Oneonta-Birmingham-Carrollton line, It was spreading steadily eastward. May hear a few peels of thunder. as you go to work, but mostly rain.
The heaviest rain at 4 am was over Lamar, Fayette and Marion County in West Alabama. Heaviest of all was down through Central and South Mississippi.
It was a mild 55 degrees at 4 over NW Alabama, but 39 with a cold steady rain over NW Mississippi and a very cold 22 degrees at Fayetteville, in NW Arkansas–home of the Arkansas Razorbacks.
33/40 SKYWATCHER REPORTS
Raining at Bear Creek in NE Marion County in NW Alabama. Amount 0.34 since midnight. Temperature 49. Strongest wind since midnight, 24 mph.
OTHER 4 AM SPOT REPORTS
West Memphis…35, cloudy, wind north, gust to 32 mph
Searcy, Ark., 29 partly cloudy, wind north 10, wind chill 20
Dyersburg, Tenn., 32 cloudy, wind chill 24
West Plains, Mo., clear 20 with a wind chill of 10
Cape Girardeau in the Bootheel of Se Missouri, flurries, 26, wind chill 16
