That big upper air low-pressure area that we have been talking about all week was getting closer to Alabama late today. It is somewhere over West Mississippi.
However, it was already spinning off a band of showers across North Alabama. Over half of the area from Birmingham north to the Tennessee border is getting rain.
It is a mix of rain and drizzle and poor visibility. Jefferson and Shelby Counties seem to be completely covered. The precipitation in this part of Alabama is moving toward the NW because of the broad circulation around that upper air low.
It is a chilly rain. Here are some late afternoon spot reports:
52 degrees, cloudy, Tuscaloosa
50, a cold rain, Birmingham, some fog in the area
49, light rain, Shelby County Airport
53, light rain, Muscle Shoals
54, light rain, Huntsville
53, light rain, Decatur
53, cloudy, Anniston
54, drizzle, Alexander City
WORLD SERIES WEATHER
The NWS/Boston is forecasting an 80% chance of rain for Boston tonight. Big question is, when will it start? At 4:45 this afternoon, radar showed the nearest rain to Boston was about 40 miles or so to the SW. Weather conditions at Boston’s Logan Airport at 5:00 p.m. EDT was 55 degrees, cloudy, wind E at 8.
