Published on: July 8, 2007 at 2:55 PM

Showers are popping up on the back side of our low this afternoon where clouds have thinned just enough to allow for some surface heating. The cooler temperatures aloft naturally associated with the upper low lead to a little enhanced instability, and showers result.

They exist at 3 p.m. in an arc from Northeast Alabama through Cullman and Blount Counties then to Walker, northern Jefferson and Tuscaloosa Counties, then curving through Bibb, Perry, Chilton and Autauga Counties. The heaviest showers and just southwest of Jasper and southwest of Tuscaloosa. Others are in southweestern Chilton and western Autauga Counties.

No lightning involved, although that is not out of the question.

Even heavier and more widespread showers are over Southeast Alabama, along and SE of I-85.

Temperatures are in the lower to middle 80s.