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The Weather Xtreme Video was a bit delayed due to a long night in the weather office monitoring conditions across Central Alabama. Dying tropical systems have a habit of producing weak tornadoes, so I was there until about 3 am when Ashley Brand took over the task.
Wow, what a day Fay brought us. Cool temperatures, cloudy skies, rain, rain and more rain – yahoo! Amazing to have an August day when the high temperature does not get out of the 70s. And this morning I walked across my yard to grab the Sunday paper, and the yard actually squished under my feet – something that I have not seen in a long, long time. Nearly 3 inches of rain sure made that possible, so thank you Fay!
Fay is now just a remnant low, but it is still expected to stick around for the next couple of days. So while it is not going to rain all day in all spots, it will be a situation best described by “periods of rain.” And perhaps a peek at the sun from time to time but clouds for the most part. Those clouds and the rain should hold highs down in the lower 80s or so.
A trough in the westerlies will finally nudge Fay out of the Southeast around Tuesday with Fay little more than a rainy memory by Wednesday and Thursday. That returns us to a scattered shower forecast which should remain with us into the end of the week and next weekend.
Tropics remain somewhat active with a couple of disturbed areas under a watchful eye. One has moved just west of the Leeward Islands and atmospheric conditions do appear favorable for some development but it will be slow. Another area of cloudiness in the Central Atlantic has not shown any signs of development and conditions appear less favorable. A large area of clouds has moved off the African coast, but there are no signs of anything there.
Rain is the big news across Central Alabama with pretty good coverage of rainfalls between 1 and 2 inches. Areas along and south of a east-west line through about Clanton got amounts between 3 and 5 inches. And the best part for us is that the remnants of Fay should keep high rain chances in the forecast for another couple of days.
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Just as I was finishing this up, the NWS in Birmingham issued a Tornado Warning for Coosa, Elmore and Tallapoosa counties, so things will remain busy until we finally see the last of Fay. I’ll be filling in for Jason Simpson tomorrow morning, and James Spann will be back bright and early with the next Weather Xtreme Video. Have a great Sunday and God bless.
-Brian-
