Published on: February 3, 2008 at 1:00 PM

It is just before 1 pm as I begin writing this note, and there is a radar screen full of echoes between Birmingham and Memphis. In fact, much more rain than I expected to see and earlier in the day than I expected to see. Here’s a couple of notes:

  • Rainfall amounts along the Alabama-Mississippi line in the area between Hamilton and Columbus, MS, have seen an estimated one half inch of rain – with spots perhaps approaching one inch.
  • It was completely sunny and clear in Southeast Alabama and Northwest Florida in comparison to the gray, overcast conditions in Central Alabama.
  • The predominant east-west gradient in temperature has been replaced with a northwest-southeast gradient at this hour.
  • The exceptions in that gradient were areas in the Tennessee Valley where temperatures were struggling to get out of the 40s.
  • There was a 23-degree temperature change from Mobile to Huntsville just before 1 pm.
  • The guidance from the Global Forecast System, aka GFS, suggests a record high for Tuesday IF the high reaches 77 as the GFS 12Z run notes. Yes, the record high for Tuesday is 76 set in 1927.
  • All of Alabama remains in an area where severe weather is possible on Tuesday – probably late in the day and into the evening hours.

    • Just some interesting notes on this quiet, gray February afternoon. No shadow here – oops, that was yesterday!!!

    -Brian-

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