Here are a few notes from all over:
SEVERE WEATHER
For a time, the Storm Prediction Center had the north half of Alabama under a slight risk of severe weather for this afternoon and tonight. However, they withdrew that designation, but they do have a slight risk for tomorrow from about Birmingham northward.
ALABAMA NOW
Very little going on around the state this afternoon, except that it is too hot. Showers and thunderstorms that moved east across the northern part of the state very early today, moved over into Georgia. This afternoon a Severe Thunderstorrm Watch was posted from extreme East Georgia through much of South Carolina and South and Central North Carolina. Another new Severe Thunderstorm Watch covers much of Arkansas, extreme West Tennessee and extreme North Mississippi.
FLASH FLOODING
A number of Flash Flood Warnings before daybreak and during the morning in places like Arkansas, SW Tennessee and extreme North Mississippi. Three sample rain amounts:
2.74 at Memphis
3.28 Paragould, Arkansas
1.90 Nashville
COOPERSTOWN
That is where James Spann is this week with the Hoover Heat, which is a 12-year-old boys baseball team. They are playing in a tournament in that famous town. Cooperstown is located in South/Central New York on I-88 about midway between Binghampton and Albany. Fortunately, the eastern heat wave abated before they got there. The 4:00 p.m. EDT temperature in Binghampton was 82 and Albany had 90. However, th e dew point was only 52 and the humidity only 28%. The high forecast for Tuesday is 82 and for Wednesday 85, but there will be a good chance of thunderstorms Tuesday and Wednesday.
USA EXTREMES
119 Sunday in Death Valley
37 this morning at West Yellowstone, Montana
32 at Barrow, Alaska where the wind chill was 23
MID-AFTERNOON IN ALABAMA
Temperatures were in the 80s over the extreme north, but in the 90s elsewhere. Some samples:
86 Muscle Shoals
88 Huntsville
92 Haleyville
91 Gadsden
95 Tuscaloosa, heat index of 103
94 Birmingham, heat index 100
96 Montgomery, heat index 102
90 Anniston, heat index 100
91 Alexander City, heat index 98
93 Auburn, heat index 100
It is a little breezy over parts of the state this afternoon making the heat more bearable. Winds were gusting over 20 mph at Birmingham, Montgomery, Ozark, Evergreen, and Auburn–just to name a few.
