Yes, the blazing sun heats the ground, the ground warms the air next to it, the warmer air is lighter and rises and finally reaches high enough to condense into clouds. Those eventually evolve into showers and thunderstorms.
It is already happening over about the south third of Alabama.
Just before 1 o’clock, the two heaviest showers (and now young thunderstorms) were over Greene and East Marengo County.
NWS, Birmingham, posted a Significant Weather Advisory for East Marengo County. A strong thunderstorm near Thomostan, or about 14 miles SE of Linden and moving ever-so-slowly toward the southeast. It is capable of producing dime size hail and wind gusts over 40.
We had a rash of those advisories yesterday. I was hoping for a much quieter afternoon today. But as James has been saying for over 30 years, “when it comes to thunderstorms, expect the unexpected!” How true…
